Well I have requested addition to the list of Blogs twice now and since it hasnt been acknowledged, I guess we are dead in the water here...Thanks to everyone who DID participate but now I am thinking it wasnt a needed blog...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Guess this was'nt a plan...
Picture of Beats Being Broke, a well loved and much missed gelding we trained and sold a couple years ago...
Well I have requested addition to the list of Blogs twice now and since it hasnt been acknowledged, I guess we are dead in the water here...Thanks to everyone who DID participate but now I am thinking it wasnt a needed blog...
Well I have requested addition to the list of Blogs twice now and since it hasnt been acknowledged, I guess we are dead in the water here...Thanks to everyone who DID participate but now I am thinking it wasnt a needed blog...
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I am trying to get my 4 yr old Doofus ready for a fall show season but we seem to have hit a large log in our smooth sailing...he just doesnt wanna...I spend a lot of time with him every day and yesterday was all I could do not to flip out and do everything wrong...but I ended the day on a good note, teeny as it was he responded to my request to drop his head (he has known this for 18 months) but I wasnt getting it from him...so when he did this one small thing yesterday, I called it quits...we went back to the barn and I left him saddled for another hour...His brother 'Leno' (pictured at the head of today's post) was a pistol to break too so maybe this is where Doofus has decided to play like his big brother...
I too have a 4yr.old that is being a major pain in my ass.He has started this head shaking thing which about can pull me right up and out of the saddle.He doesn't get behind the vertical,doesn't really throw his head but the tossing and playing is making me nuts!!I'm thinking he just really needs alot more work.When he is in frame or at least concentrating it is NICE then all of a sudden off he goes again.
I enjoyed this blog all though I know very little about showing in the stock breeds.
luvs, what I did with the Doofus was leave him in his stall like in the mid morning and everning hours with the bridle on, no reins...just get used to the damn thing...then I added the saddle and reins, and let HIM find out that no one was yanking on it...just carry it...of course I stay near when he is saddled with reins attached...I just went out and unsaddled him and turned him out...tonight he will wear the saddle and bridle again. Today's session was about 70% better than yesterday...I imagine all basics of breaking and training are similar: you want your horse to carry you quietly and obediently, respond quickly without agitation or fright, and to be a pleasure to ride in any discipline...With horses the way their personalities dictate their training, I am more than willing to try ideas that will make Doofus happier and more compliant without ruining his desire to please...uh, if he has one! (LOL)
I do leave him with a headstall and bit in his mouth (no reins).I also work him with side reins.He is solid and big bodied....I think he is just playing around as it is usually at the beginning or our riding time when he does it the most.I try to get his work in around my own work schedule...and that's not working!!LOL.
Just in case any of you are here still...a horse ago, my Dozer, from Florida crazyhorse!(you may have seen him at some shows as a yearling lunge liner--tell me how and I will add a pic) had a head shaking problem. He would all the sudden do this jerk thing like he was startled only this horse never spooked at anything. We thought he had a neurological problem. I had had his teeth done two months before this started so we figured it wasn't that. Then, after a month of this, we had his teeth checked again. He lost six caps that day that were so sharp I could puncture my finger with no pressure. He completely quit after that. Come to find out, he has bad teeth. It was a selling point....he may have bad teeth you have to have done every six months, but he's got the best feet of any horse I have ever owned. LOL.
I have done just what crazyhorse said. Finish on a good note. I practically leap off and jerk the cinch loose when I am having one of "those" days. Then take them back to the barn where they think they WANT to be and tie them around or to the wall or bitted up. I have found they tend to be mucho better the next day. How did your next ride go?
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