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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 41522"><p>Whatever you do, don't leave the halter on her out in the pasture. Everytime that I see horses out in pasture with halters on, I cringe. It's possible that the incident of breaking off the last halter has justified her reaction to wearing one. </p><p>I would approach her often with a short rope and work on desensitizing her to that, as well as sacking her out with your hands and the rope. I'd take a treat that I wouldn't feed her from my hands and make my visits short and pleasant and leave her thinking..."Gee, that wasn't so bad." Once she is used to the rope being all over her, then I'd fashion it like a halter or just around her neck, then release her. Once she realizes that this thing can go on and off and its no big deal, she'll relax. Then try the halter. If you put the halter on your shoulder and make it part of you, she won't be wise to it as you approach her. Rub on her head and her ears and just slip the halter on in one motion...keeping it as no big deal, but always remove it before you leave her. Lots of positive visits, and sacking out. You don't have to restrain her to work on her either. You can go out with a brush or fly spray and challenge yourself to work with her without restraint, the goal being not to make her feel that she has to move away from you. Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 41522"] Whatever you do, don't leave the halter on her out in the pasture. Everytime that I see horses out in pasture with halters on, I cringe. It's possible that the incident of breaking off the last halter has justified her reaction to wearing one. I would approach her often with a short rope and work on desensitizing her to that, as well as sacking her out with your hands and the rope. I'd take a treat that I wouldn't feed her from my hands and make my visits short and pleasant and leave her thinking..."Gee, that wasn't so bad." Once she is used to the rope being all over her, then I'd fashion it like a halter or just around her neck, then release her. Once she realizes that this thing can go on and off and its no big deal, she'll relax. Then try the halter. If you put the halter on your shoulder and make it part of you, she won't be wise to it as you approach her. Rub on her head and her ears and just slip the halter on in one motion...keeping it as no big deal, but always remove it before you leave her. Lots of positive visits, and sacking out. You don't have to restrain her to work on her either. You can go out with a brush or fly spray and challenge yourself to work with her without restraint, the goal being not to make her feel that she has to move away from you. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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