Working with a yearling?
Hey, I have a 2-year-old mare and she wants to do something. By that I mean she's bored with being in the paddock all day. I started taking her into the round pen every 2 weeks to play with her and started with the basics. Now she's getting bored with that too and wants to do more than just walk-stop-backward-walk. It always says on the internet that you should leave horses alone until they're 3 years old and I understand that of course because horses need time to get mentally ready and of course to enjoy their childhood first. Now I'm wondering if I can carry on and do more with her if she offers it herself? Or should I leave her alone and start in a year? I'm not talking riding here, but walking, teaching tricks and liberty work.
thank you in advance for your answers
Greetings Lissy
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Walk, put things like a rod two, horror training, lead training on both sides, put a ball in the roundpen and see what it does with it. Headwise, you can prepare a young horse for a lot already, physically you have to pay attention to something, as longing goes strongly on the still soft joints
In the last time, we took a Gymkhana course from the ground with horses of different ages. Gymkhana is in Switzerland Skill Riding. If you like to link a video from me, you have a rough insight and see what it can do. You can gradually install something new
https://youtu.be/Cro5Q-9taZY
Proper, solid lead and step/train/hold/backward are not easy. You have to be able to do this right first – both as a horse and as a human being.
If you have the opportunity to take your horse as a handhorse when it works.
I’d still guess long work, at least regular. Growth is still so fast that it can quickly go to bones and joints. The same is with roundpe work.
Horses are curious, the young especially. They offer much more than one should demand!
Fohlen abc, stand still and allow to connect, medical training, brav stand at the forging, if necessary take along as a hand horse etc.
All in minutes.
Mine was still super bored with two, physically but not really ready for ‘right’ work. I started to teach him art pieces (first simple, meanwhile he is 6 and can say anything: Yes & No, teeth, rise, how old, kisses, lie, compliment, Spanish greeting and step, he is retrievable, can turn on command.. At first, however, would not do dominant exercises with her, but would give something like kisses.
This is really good head work, but of course the horse must also like it
Otherwise, you can also learn free-longing slowly with her, or insert bars and pylons into your guide exercises, which is also a bit for the head.
Schrecktraining is of course also great, because it doesn’t just have to think about it, but also learns something for the future.
That’s all I’d do if I wanted to ruin the bones of the horse in growth.
Just a roundpen is a rather narrow circle for such a young horse! From my point of view, it definitely shouldn’t be in that age.
Solid guiding, step-to-step, optionally Apply to the knit, without giving great crockery, hoove, and hold up for longer and be touched everywhere. That’s a lot to do.
This “she offers it” is a big problem for young horses – that is, it is NOT to accept it. This “want” or “Will to please” is poison for growth. Make sure you get uniform mates, ask Basics/Fohlen-ABC and that’s done absolutely enough.
If you don’t have to put the horses in a good breeding ground.
They are not bored there either, and the different bands are already doing so on their own. Through solid “human-related” guide horses, they are also raised at the same time!
pack the animal too much into a breeding herd and the bore is past.
please people – let the fingers of steal. the sooner you get them from the group, the worse they socialize.
Maybe you don’t know that horses that have to eat around the clock are the most time they don’t eat. that’s completely normal. even if they are still foaled.
You can. However, not too much and not regularly. Spacing is ok, tricks and co. often prove not to be targeted and/or overwhelming, because young horses are simply not yet solidified and often so many unwanted bullshits can develop.
You work with a young horse, always consider what you are doing right now – just like what you are doing badly now. Physical and psychological. The Internet is really not a suitable guide for such things, please close with an experienced young horse trainer for a short time to build your horse on a plan and scale.
For my part, I can only say that countless times have been experienced, that this was so insanely greedy and doctrined young horse was then simply a normal one – and with appropriately adapted attitude in the breeding herd did not already need 2 or 3 J. demand. But you know your horse and hopefully you know what you’re doing.
Fohlen ABC is sufficient, for more than 10 minutes it cannot concentrate anyway. Playing with artisans and being educated by older animals is enough.
A few GHP exercises don’t hurt either. I showed my at the time with 2 everything that could be creepy (plastic bags, tarpaulin, tractor, etc.), but also only if there was a chance!
Nothing physically strenuous.
Can teach the animal useful things in short units. For example, raise legs to touch, park, etc.
I wouldn’t take more than a walk.