Little Winnie learning about strange places to put your feet whilst understanding direction. She's a poppet 😍
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Foal Feet Handling
Teaching a baby to have her feet attended to in a big space and untied.
This gorgeous girl had to be wrestled with to have her free trimmed, but I didn't want her to have bad experience, so ive stripped it all back and included groundworkto help her. So proud of her. Farrier came today and she stood like a pro 💓
Feet trimming and shoeing is for life. Get it right whilst they're young. Your farrier will thank you for it too!
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A little video of before and after.
Today I was helping this yearling. She's incredibly sceptical about most things. The prop was just a glove on a stick and the glove even smelt nice as it was stuffed with hay, but Chloe wasn't having any of it.
I wanted her to problem solve and instead of getting emotional, I allowed her time to work out the puzzle. When you're emotional, the pressure stays, when you're calm and put your head down, the puzzle is solved and the hand goes away. Now she feels she is in control of the hand.
It's so important to teach youngsters all these puzzles so they grow up to be 'thinkers' and not REACTERS.
Just imagine if we didn't address this and something similar appeared later in her life, she'd probably be deemed dangerous and 'naughty', when in fact, she's neither, she just needed to be guided and shown how to problem solve and handle her emotions under pressure.
No horse is 'naughty' they are just trying to tell us they don't understand.
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Yesterday, I had a full on day with Molly doing a demo on how groundwork transfers to the riding and how it can be fun and practical too. Followed by back-to-back lessons with a lovely bunch of ladies, who were fun, receptive and understanding.
Thank you to all who attended via the Ludlow and District Riding Club and thank you to Julie for organising and looking after us all, all day. You were amazing!
Here's what a couple of participants said:
I thoroughly enjoyed the session with Debbie and she listened and made me feel comfortable and encouraging about what I was doing with Harley. I liked the guidance and no negativity at all. Will definitely be doing more to make our relationship stronger.
Sally Allen
I have attended a couple of horsemanship clinics and the way Debbie gave her time to explain/demonstrate, the penny finally dropped in how to show my horse what I am asking from her. Really enjoyed today, just what we needed.
Tracey Gethin
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We had 4 fabulous days of training with our super trainer Joe Midgley Horsemanship. Learnt loads, and as usual came home inspired and thrilled. I didn't really want to come home, but we have lots of homework to do. We never stop learning and developing ourselves and our horses. Horsemanship is a journey and what a wonderful journey it is. Can't wait for the next time. 😍😁😄😃😄
Someone didn't like puddles, but now they love them
Teaching a 4 year old to become responsive, respectful and safe by getting control of the feet.
Safe enough to be handled by a little girl.
It always starts the basics
Keep your pony soft and your child safe
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We had a really busy weekend. Two days of clinics. I met some lovely horses and their lovely owners, who were all receptive to learning more about the importance of understanding a horse/prey animal and learning the benefits of groundwork and how it all transfers to the riding.
We played with obstacles to give purpose and make it fun too.
Thank you to all who attended 😊🙌you all did an amazing job and I really enjoyed working with you all and your fabulous horses.
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