Mar 3
I worked with Sam and Treat today. Sam hadn’t been worked with for about two weeks and it showed when he decided he didn’t like the breaching anymore. However, he settled down pretty quickly and was good. I just need to get him done more often. I will blame Mother Nature for the interruption. Today I put the bridle on Sam to lunge him. He was very good and didn’t try to pull away. He did kind of lean on it, but figured it out pretty well. I will always lunge him in the bridle from now on.
I decided to get Treat out and do something with him since he is the other Icy in the barn. He has been kind of skittish and he needs to have more attention. I groomed him and picked his feet and he actually let me pick his hind feet. This is the result of asking him to give them over the past couple of months when I would water horses. They are all coming due for a trim, so this is great progress for him. I lunged him for the first time and he acted like all the wild horses do. They face the threat(which is me) and it is sometimes hard to get them to move forward around you. It didn’t take too long, though because within about 15 minutes he was going around me to the left. I did have the mannering halter on, because he did try to pull away and take off at first. It works very well getting them to give in. He only went to the left today. I will start him to the left next time an see how long it takes him to figure it out. If he does well, I will turn him around and make him go to the right.
Treat has a sliced up ear(that he wouldn’t let me touch) from fighting so much. He is one hard luck horse. Hopefully they won’t maim each other before I can work out a way to separate them for their own protection.
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