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Horse Behavior and Training

Groundwork for a yearling

By:

imagoddessleo

Date:

2015-Aug-20 at 02:17PM

I've searched through the site and, unless I am sorely mistaken, I do not see any lesson section dedicated to teaching basic groundwork to a yearling. My filly, which I've had since she was 8 wks old, has just turned one year old. She is ripe for moving past basic commands. I've never owned/trained a horse before now and I'd like to be as educated as possible so I am confident when we work together and know that she can trust me.

Miriam (Holland&Germany) 2015-Aug-20 at 08:18PM

Hi imagoddesleo,
You're right, there's no direct lesson for yearlings, but you'll find so much to learn together with your young mare! Do you have a Dually halter? Watch all lessons concerning the halter, leading etc. Then there are the liberty-lessons by Florian Oberparleiter, they will give you so much fun and good work for the rest of your mare's life....You can build an obstacle-course, as in the loading-lessons, and prepare your filly for decent loading. Desensitize her with whatever you can think of, balloons, umbrella's, walk her over tarpolin, you name it!
Trust, and consequence, fun and no limits to your fantasy, these are the elements of the work that lays ahead of the two of you.
Have fun, and more important: let your filly have fun!
Keep us posted on how you're doing,
Miriam

JoHewittVINTA 2015-Aug-21 at 08:59AM

Hi. My babies are now 29 & 15 months old. I found the most benefit from 'play' during our usual routine. Kirk was born in a livery yard where everyone visited him so he is more social than Moley, who was born in the field. Bringing new things into their space - tarps to collect weeds for instance. The black tarp was small, about 1.5 meters square & it was thoroughly investigated including being walked on. Backing up has become normal so I can get the gate open to feed. Moving off pressure is normal too - so I can move between them when they crowd round me. Keep it short & fun & they soak it up like a sponge. Cheers, Jo.