New Horses
I have two new horses to train. Marla Mystery Girl and Abandoned Ace.
Marla belongs to Zan Schultz. His son, Aaron, owns Sparky and Lightening Bug, who are back to board for the winter. Marla is a sorrel Arabian. Someone has handled her enough to teach her to lead and tie, but not enough to be able to handle her feet. We changed that right away with some positive reinforcement. Now she comes up beside me and offers her hooves for my inspection. I like working with her because she is really quick to catch on. We will be saddling her next week.
Abandoned Ace got his name from how his previous owner just walked out, leaving me a donation for some feed and some suggestions of who I could give him to. I told her that I would try to sell him instead and send her the money. First I will give him some training, and if I like him, I might send her my own money. What is cool about him is that he is dog-gentle. He's a Tennessee Walking Horse so I went to a YouTube video on judging the value of a walking horse by its gaits. Yikes!!! No wonder she bought him so cheap, he paces, which is not a good gait to ride. I might be able to train him out of it. Today I started with him. The first thing was to get him to come to the fence for me to get on bareback. I started doing target training to target his withers to my fingers. He doesn't learn as fast as Marla, but in about 20 minutes he would scoot around to touch his withers to my fingers where ever they were offered. Then I climbed up on the fence. That confused him for a while, but he finally started getting the idea. At this point he kind of thinks he should get his neck against my leg when I get on the fence. It's just a matter of degree now.
I have three horses for sale in the paper: Lightening Bug, Sparky, and Abandoned Ace. So far I have only gotten calls on the Bug. She has a $1200 price tag on her. I didn't put the price in the paper. The others are cheaper and their prices are published. Go figure.
Marla belongs to Zan Schultz. His son, Aaron, owns Sparky and Lightening Bug, who are back to board for the winter. Marla is a sorrel Arabian. Someone has handled her enough to teach her to lead and tie, but not enough to be able to handle her feet. We changed that right away with some positive reinforcement. Now she comes up beside me and offers her hooves for my inspection. I like working with her because she is really quick to catch on. We will be saddling her next week.
Abandoned Ace got his name from how his previous owner just walked out, leaving me a donation for some feed and some suggestions of who I could give him to. I told her that I would try to sell him instead and send her the money. First I will give him some training, and if I like him, I might send her my own money. What is cool about him is that he is dog-gentle. He's a Tennessee Walking Horse so I went to a YouTube video on judging the value of a walking horse by its gaits. Yikes!!! No wonder she bought him so cheap, he paces, which is not a good gait to ride. I might be able to train him out of it. Today I started with him. The first thing was to get him to come to the fence for me to get on bareback. I started doing target training to target his withers to my fingers. He doesn't learn as fast as Marla, but in about 20 minutes he would scoot around to touch his withers to my fingers where ever they were offered. Then I climbed up on the fence. That confused him for a while, but he finally started getting the idea. At this point he kind of thinks he should get his neck against my leg when I get on the fence. It's just a matter of degree now.
I have three horses for sale in the paper: Lightening Bug, Sparky, and Abandoned Ace. So far I have only gotten calls on the Bug. She has a $1200 price tag on her. I didn't put the price in the paper. The others are cheaper and their prices are published. Go figure.
Comments