Another great horse training exercise to practice when your horse is lame is trailer loading. If your horse is severely lame, you won’t want to ask him to step up in to the trailer, but if he’s only mildly lame you can put on a pair of support boots and practice this. Make sure your [...]
It’s is frustrating to have to put your horse training program on hold when your horse goes lame. While there are many training exercises that you can not practice while your horse is injured, there are some that you can work on. Here’s some that I’ve been practicing with Foster while he has been hurt:
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It’s a dilemma faced at one time or another by anyone who trains horses: how do you discipline a lame horse? You don’t want to make the injury worse, but you don’t want to allow your horse to get away with dangerous behaviors, either. The answer, of course, is going to vary with each situation, [...]
The second day of the barrel horse training clinic we were broken in to groups of four. Then within those groups, we went through one at a time and got feedback from Charmayne. One big thing I learned was in regards to proper hand position around the barrel. When you make your turn, go to [...]
The day after Foster’s “heat stroke” I went to check on him mid afternoon. His breathing was labored and rapid again, but his fever was not as high as the day before. When he still wasn’t breathing right the day after that, I called the vet. We took him in, and after blood tests to [...]
Foster’s 2 months of sickness has just been one thing after another. First he was just slightly lame and sore in his back. I had my vet look at him, and he said I should give him 3 days off. After that, I got back on but he wasn’t sound. We decided to give him [...]
It’s been quite a summer. My gelding, Foster, has been sick or lame for the past two months. I was able to attend a horse training barrel racing clinic at the end of August with Charmayne James. I borrowed a 4 year old cutting horse mare from a friend of mine and rode her since [...]
Hi All, Thank you for your patience as this blog hasn’t been very active over the past few months. I’ve been dealing with all kinds of health problems in my 7 year old QH gelding, Foster. However, I’ve been lucky to have a good friend loan me a horse (a really fun little mare, Maddie, [...]
