I don't cross over my business and personal pages but thought I would show y'all what we are doing on the biz side. This video of Badger and first bath. He is a well bred Colt owned by Roulette Performance Horses in Seguin Texas. He and his buddy Zeus have been in basic training g the last 2 weeks and go home tomorrow. Zeus is an in your pocket stud colt also well bred. Badger was mostly Feral when we started. He is now a young developing gentleman. Trailers, grooms, baths, working on getting him farrier broke, and just general confidence around humans. Badger is FOR SALE by Roulette Performance Horses. PM Ashley Abuzlam for details. Shout out to a mentor Tim Anderson Horse Training .
Got a call from a referred customer regarding a Dutch Warmblood who suddenly had a No attitude about loading on their trailer. She got impaled into her lungs with a fence post and they had to Emergency load her to get her to the vet. She was badly hurt so they had to do everything you shouldn't to get her to load or she would have died. Maxima is now recovered and is fat, out of shape, and not a fan of getting on the trailer.
First session we were able to get her all in the trailer but her rear feet. They got to the edge of the trailer but she just was not confident to hop up as her muscles and confidence were gone from the above incident. At the end she was sweating buckets so we took what got as a win and I told the owner why we were quitting and told her if she didn't go on in session 2 a week later, I would charge nothing.
Fast forward to lesson 2. We parked the trailer so as the floor of the trailer was closer to the ground. Anytime I have or know I will have a resistant horse to loading or had never loaded i try to give the horse every advantage by finding a spot to back to to where the floor is as close to the ground as possible. It does wonders for the horses confidence which is a large part of the solution. Started out walking up to the trailer and I got a straight NO. So Maxima went to work and quickly said f**k this i am going on. So first time I offered, Maxima gladly came all the way on. Did not get video of that but in the below videos you see the effort and results.
Checked in a few days after and owner had followed my advice and continued the training after I taught her how to train Maxima. Owner said she went right on twice and they went for a ride each time. The following is the text I got back after checking in.. "We successfully completed our homework assignment. Got her in twice, took her for two rides, then let her rest immediately after the second full trailer ride.
I am beside myself and my daughter thinks I'm the he