Yearling colt won’t stop biting
Today’s horse training question comes from Cris: “my yearling colt started constantly biting and chewing on things even when i am working with him he is always trying to bite me. i have tried the nice way of pushing him away and the mean way of popping his nose, but nothing works. what would you suggest to change this behavior?”
You are already doing the first two things I would have tried. I have two other suggestions. One, when he gets all mouthy put your hands on each side of his mouth and start rubbing him vigorously. Do this till he pulls his head away. Basically you are saying, “ok, you want to be all mouthy with me, give me your mouth and let’s play” until he thinks goodness I’ve had enough of this! The other thing I would try is start working him in a round pen if you have one, and every time he gets mouthy send him out to work around the outside of the round pen at a trot for a few minutes. I would use this way first with an older horse, and work them HARD when they got mouthy, but with a yearling you have to be careful how hard you ask them to work. Thank you for your question and let me know if either of these suggestions help.
