What do you expect a horse to know after he's been with a trainer for 30 days? I've got a bunch of colts I'm riding, I like the way they handle but I don't know how they compare to what other green broke horses know.
milkmaid":354tu0v7 said:What do you expect a horse to know after he's been with a trainer for 30 days? I've got a bunch of colts I'm riding, I like the way they handle but I don't know how they compare to what other green broke horses know.
milkmaid":3qv7gp07 said:What do you expect a horse to know after he's been with a trainer for 30 days? I've got a bunch of colts I'm riding, I like the way they handle but I don't know how they compare to what other green broke horses know.
This...provided the horse has been handled abit on the ground and isnt a total fruitloopchippie":3ijdqskc said:Walk, jog, lope both ways on correct lead. Halt and back. Start moving off of leg and yielding using a direct rein.
milkmaid":2w0cozga said:What do you expect a horse to know after he's been with a trainer for 30 days? I've got a bunch of colts I'm riding, I like the way they handle but I don't know how they compare to what other green broke horses know.
Personally, I'd rather see a horse develop slowly with no bad habits than pushed to learn alot fast. I've been around alot of really well trained horses where the limiting factors on their value were dumb stuff like not leading well or being a little cinchy. If I sent a horse to someone and they never got past getting a saddle on the horse but it got done right that's better than having a cinchy horse that sets back every time you get them out for the next fifteen years.
milkmaid":14u4c547 said:First colt... yep, I did do that for the first couple days, more so I could turn him and/or get his head around if he tried to blow up when I first got on. I'm one really lousy bronc rider. Just haven't done it since and probably ought to re-visit it. I've got side reins left over from my English days and might just use those.
Second colt... if my folks had their way, I'd have the helmet every time I was riding. I rode English - Pony Club - for a lot of years and the USPC motto was "Every time, every ride." Used the cross-country vest for jumping too. Nowdays I'll put the first couple rides on a colt with the helmet and vest, or the ones that have given me problems... ie the sorrel had bucked me off the day before that video. His head's not tied down, just have a running martingale on, same as the bay colt. We'll see but he's been handling really nice. Really nice ride now, been quiet and does what he's told immediately. Giving the bay colt the day off today and taking the sorrel on a ride up in the mountains, need to find out how he'll cross bridges, water, etc.