How to best train a horse to drive
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- How to train a horse to drive?
And, how to drive a horse? This approach to breaking in and taming young horses is perhaps not obvious to everyone. I wish more people were familiar with this system: Relaxed horse, open tolerance window, better learning. Oh, the impact this makes! No force or violence, just driving basics. (No filters)
Remember that no horses are broken in or ridden from the start, they are born as horses and we make them into working horses. A good working horse is not born that way, but made that way with good training.
I take you through the process step by step in this video, with thorough examples along the way. You get to follow my two-year-old gray Fjord horse colt. We go through ground driving, soft shafts, regular low shafts and cart. Breaking in a horse is possible for most people if they follow this system carefully. (Notice: Not all horses can learn how to pull a wagon, if they have a certain temper or are traumatised, they should not be carriagehorses)
This video is to be continued with a new video as the colt is developing and goes to next level in his education. When you educate a horse, you make him more valuable and is investing in the horses life.
One should have good knowledge of horses, horse handling, and the horse's instincts and body language before breaking in a horse oneself. If you are unsure of your basic competence, I recommend that you contact a driving trainer for help and guidance. It is a safety measure for both you and your horse.
Don’t be afraid of praising the horse too much, or spending too much time with your horse, I believe both is close to impossible.
Best of luck, Henriette
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Really helpful because its realistic, step by step and shows what to do when something is not perfect yet.
Thank you ❤️
I love this slow, laid back, confidence building way of training you have. I wish you could work with my mare who used to drive and myself. I do not know how to drive and no one close by is willing to take on the liability of training us.
Thank you ❤️ (I’m sure it would be fun training you and your horse, it always is when we like the same approach to training)
Love the pace of the longer form video, voiceover with text, and perfectly selected background music! Great videographer and editing too!
Thank you very much 🥰🙏🏻
@@Horsewise01 you're very welcome and thank you! My Fjord is more experienced with driving than I but it's very helpful to watch other people who know what they're doing. 😀
Really good video, we do many of the same things here. We start them with a bridle on with a soft, plastic or rubber covered bit, under a good flat halter. We drive them from halter initially for a long time. Then we drop the halter noseband down, till the bit rings and halter can be buckled together with the reins and introduce the bit to reins, that way. Once they are OK with the halter and bit together driving, we use just the bit. Sometimes when young mouths are changing, metal bits and driving straight off of a metal bit, they play more due to the noise on their teeth clanking. Also they learn to come behind the bit more, chin to chest, when started straight away with a bit. They know halter pressure and I would rather they made those 1st mistakes into a flat halter over a metal bit in their mouths. We also use a very lightly attached running bitting string from girth at point of shoulder height, through a harness ring ran through a leather curbstrap on the snaffle, to the opposite girth fastened just taut, bit without changing normal head carriage, at point of shoulder level and allow them to walk around a lunging pen free, to learn to move forward, in all three paces, with little or no contact (as they relax their necks and lift their shoulders to move forward) without issue. We can also drive, from the halter with the little running string attached to the bit, on under the halter, once they have the fundamentals of driving down pat, in halter. Once they are OK driving with halter and bit together and the running string, they are ready to drive just in a bit. We also lunge them WTC both ways, both leads with the harness on. We do this as the 1st time they feel the breeching and crouper running up and down their butts in canter, should not be after a little startle and scurry out on the trail! We have had some pretty good bucking shows, when introducing cantering in harness on the lunge, that avoided them happening out on the trail while put to a vehicle! We also start them open.
Great informational video. Thank you for sharing. Flotte hester, flinke jenter
Tusen takk/Thank you ❤🙏🏻
Super video, thank you for sharing, I learned different ways of doing things.
Great! 🌟 Thank you ❤️
A wonderful video!!! Thank you.
Thank you ❤️
Excellent job by all
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an amazing video !
Thank you very much! ❤️
Loved it. Excellent video. I got my fjord driving as far as pulling a tire, but I may have missed some steps so I will go back now. Thank you ❤ Tell me. Where did you get your soft shafts.
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Very good enjoyed it
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just messaged you on FB thanks
can I trouble you to send me a couple of close up pics of the arrangement that you describe- I really appreciate it
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I don’t think that is what I mean- you have the Fjord ground driving in the wooden False shafts dragging the tire etc. The shafts appear to be attached to the harness with what almost seems to be some sort of quick release. Does that help clarify what I am asking? Thanks; I have my horse dragging poles on both sides of him but I need to figure out how to attach the poles to the harness but in a way that is safe that I can get him out of them if I need to. He seems to not care about the poles dragging. He is such a good boy. I have a cart. I have put him in the shafts of the cart without attaching anything and pulled the cart with him in the shafts and he is totally fine with it. I plan to take loads of time to practice as I want to be as safe as possible- thanks so much
Anita
@@anitaparra4419 ok!! Now I know what you mean!! 😊 It is an attachment on the work harness that is threaded through a hole in the hitch and fastened with a kind of pin that is threaded through on the other side. Did that make sense? I dont know what Orepinne is in english 🙈
how are you attaching the "false shafts" to the harness- very clever set up but I cannot figure out how you have done it. thanks
@@anitaparra4419 Hi 😊 Thank you for asking. Do you mean the red «soft poles»? If so, I just bend them around a part of the harness/girth. About a foot long piece, around a piece of the harness. Its soft, and its not uncomfortable to the horse like that. They stay on fine, and if the horse step on the other end, they fall of with no drama/noise and it’s not scary/uncomfortable for the horse. If this was what you was wondering about?
I have a question can this horses founder from eating to much grass.
Yes, a fjordhorse like other horses can founder from eating too much grass. (Laminitis, also known as founder, is a painful and serious condition that can affect horses when they consume an excessive amount of grass or rich pasture) It is important for horse owners to monitor their horse's diet and grazing to prevent the risk of laminitis.
Nb! Make sure to gradually acclimate the horse to the grass season. Also, be careful during fall and spring when there is night frost and the grass is stressed (then there is higher sugar content, and horses are more prone to founder)
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I don't have instagram only fb- I am happy to share my e mail with you just not sure how the best way to do that is. I also have WhatsApp- I assume you are overseas in Europe somewhere? If not I can open an instagram account
@@anitaparra4419 ok, here is my Facebook, you can pm me there? 😊
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