Problem Horse | Food Aggression 

You aint seen food aggression until you've seen me weaning me off of chocolate ice-cream.

I don’t blame her for being a bit afraid.I had a horse that was food aggressive.The horse bit me in the face and almost tore my nose off.A few surgery later and It made me more aware of what they can do.

As someone who knows nothing about horses this was fascinating. Ryan seems so patient and knowledgeable. Well done to him and Jessica both.

This is a smart mare who’s just gotten her way for far too long, good that they caught it early

“…a little ‘Buck-You’ there”. Priceless!!!!

For those who think he was mean for tapping that horse. Did you see her trying to double barrel kick him? That can easily kill a person. Horses can also bite a face off or break an arm & cause other serious damage. The lessons she learns while young can save her from a bad fate later on. Nice job Ryan.

Ryan is cool as a cucumber. Notice how his demeaner doesn't change as he corrects the horse. He doesn't get all amped up. Because it's not personal, it's just the way it is. Horse sees it the same way and respect is established.

I started riding as a very young child so I grew up with horses. When I was eight, I got kicked in the ribs by a food aggressive horse named "Food for Thought" (a barn horse I rode regularly but didn't own). The irony of that name is pretty amazing... Anyway, the rib healed in a V-shape which goes about 4 inches into my chest cavity and presses against my liver. It never stopped me from riding, I just learned a hard lesson to pay close attention to a horses body language and cues. Food aggression is a serious issue that deserves attention. Thanks for the educational content. Hoping it spares someone else the kind of injury I experienced.

A shout out to Jessica and other horse owners for sharing their experiences with us. It's a big help.

I think it's notable how firm, but kind he was to the horse! He gave her a little boop on the nose when she wouldn't back off and when she was kicking, but otherwise was really respectful. He also stressed not making your horse afraid of you, which I really liked!

I see a lot of comments saying that this girl isn’t very confident. I think the issue is that there’s a camera on her and she doesn’t really know this guy super well. She’s probably more confident alone.

Sometimes it's about teaching the owners lol

Young lady you got this!!! Walk with purpose and confidence!

Jessica: Talking about her badly behaved mare... Horse behind her: Drops his dangly boy bits to make sure we know she's not talking about him! 😂

Great lesson. I hate when people think food aggression is cute. I worked with this one spoiled horse where her owner thought it was cute and I had to spend so much time building up respect boundaries. She loved testing me because the longer they are like that the more they push. It translates to riding too. Cause if the can push you off food then pushing off the saddle is just a stones throw away 😂

I know nothing about horses . . . but that was darn interesting. Thanks

i've never owned a horse, i just happened upon this video...but it's incredible how well you can communicate with the horses ! &in a way that's healthy for not only the animal but the ppl caring for them

Seems like it’s a matter of the horse learning that she can use aggression to “teach” humans to do what she wants. Glad to see you worked on boundaries both with and without food.

That is a young pushy mare that needs to be out with an older matriarch. Nothing beats a bigger heard with an older mare to put your youngsters in their place!

The channel should have a million subscribers! Excellent content!

"buck you"?! 🤣🤣🤣 Genius!

To those of you crying about him smacking her with that stick... Go watch a horse claim it's space. Teeth, hooves, and hide are FLYING. A stick to the butt is nothing and can help a horse go from lethal to safe in a language they understand. If you can take the heat stay out of the pasture.

"You picking up what im putting down?!" Awesome AF

Watched this awhile back. Had a colt that was getting aggressive at feeding time and just very pushy. He is better now. Surgical loss of his nay nays couple weeks ago and he is improving greatly. I got to where I would not go in the pen without my flag. He’s learned to move and wait. Had to be consistent. What Ryan said worked.

One of my horses is not food aggressive but tends to get in my space when I'm pouring his mash into his feed tub. If he gets pushy, he gets my wooden spoon on the end of his nose and he backs off. We're still friends, no harm done, he just needs to be reminded to wait every once in a while. My other horse is a complete gentleman.

That shacking with the bucket reminded me of the scene in harry potter where they ring bells so the white dragon in gringottsbank will back off.

I think you needed cue words instead of rattling the feed bucket, which is a good incentive to come, if you want to catch a horse in a hurry. Instead, use "back off" when you want her to clear your space. Also, use a release word. Once she is in the corner, you deliver feed, go out, and say "ok" or any release word so she knows it's ok to eat. It was apparent that she was confused about when she could come out of the corner.

Most often it’s about training the humans. Thank you for what you do. I’ve been with horses for 58 years. Horses are amazing!

I wish I had these videos when I was a teen. I could have been a better horseman earlier in life.

I'm Apache and I take care of horses, but I've never sat on one. I love and respect them. One day I will get a clue from a special horse and I will ride. I know exactly what to do; I care for horses.

This is essential teaching, this means horses have a better chance to live happy healthy lives instead of being sold or put down for bad learned behavior. Love this! Thank you for demonstrating clearly.

In all my 30 years rideing horses I am forever learning something new you made some really good points my Arabian would show food aggression but the the way you made those two horses respect your space was like magic as a rider we learn all the time it doesn't matter how long all what level rideing ability you have you still learn things all the time their ain't no such thing as the best rider I definitely learnt something new watching this today this is really good educational info

To those of you crying about him smacking her with that stick... Go watch a horse claim it's space. Teeth, hooves, and hide are FLYING. A stick to the butt is nothing and can help a horse go from lethal to safe in a language they understand. If you cant take the heat stay out of the pasture! I can walk out in the middle of my horses surrounded by feed and nobody moves a muscle until I'm gone. Knowing you don't tolerate foolery can save your life!! Numerous times my mare has been able to be a buffer between me and an escape stallion to be able to lead him back home. She never once squealed, kicked, or faltered in any way. I'm boss mare and I mean it. There is a zero tolerance for fighting when I'm around. They know this. They will always know this and I know I am always safe in their company.

10:30 I entered the video and randomly clicked on that bit and thought the guy was blind. I was real impressed.

Best part of this is while he does pop the horse once or twice, he doesn't go whole hog. Just enough to get the horse to stop the behavior and pay attention without any hurt.

“There are no problem horses, only problem riders/owners” - My aunts favorite quote.

Jessica did the right thing to call Ryan in for help. She's growing in her knowledge and skills. Facing a horse that acts like that is truly scary. I'm sure with practice and continued support (Ryan, you are going to follow-up with her to make sure it's going right?) she will come out feeling strong about it.

She should also get a cue when she is allowed to the food. Like you acted between 18'21" and 19'01" makes it very unclear to her when she can't and when she can : both times you where standing in the door, first time you chased her back and second time you kept the same posture but let her go.

A two year old Morgan filly with food aggression kicked my daughter in the forehead & gave her a skull fracture. Got my friend to take the filly back & my daughter was fine. Now a veterinarian.

Calm assertive behavior is what is needed for animals to understand boundaries and leadership. Be it a horse or dog, respect and understanding rules and boundaries is critical for all training. Inconsistent behavior leads to insecurity , which causes fight or flight.

A lot of times, being aggressive with any animal that you're working with can have big negative effects. However, being the Alpha means being strict, and teaching through various ways of communication is exactly what Ryan does. Great job, and thank you for sharing these videos of your work!!

Jessica is NOT confident enough in her space to own it., I do think a que word for the horse to know..ok I’m allowed to eat could have been implemented. The horse did AMAZING... Jess didn’t seem as excited for the horses progression.. but I also feel like as dogs and kids... boundaries are ALWAYS good to have as they know when to expect to be corrected. Great Job Millo...

It took courage for Jessica to ask for help and be willing to learn. Her mare is a bully who is taking advantage of her good nature and inexperience. I wish them both the best and hope they make a good team for many years. ☀️

He is really kind. That's how people and horses learn. I learned a lot. Thank you 😊

Always a challenge when a horse hits their version of the terrible twos! Well done Ryan and Jessica, enforcing standards of good behaviour keeps horse and owner safe.

Hey Ryan. Do you follow up on these lessons/stories? I showed your video to my 87 y/o Dad and he wanted to know if the girl continued working with her horse ☺️

I really like Ryan! His demeanor and instruction is really great. Wherever he lives it sure is pretty country!

the girl seems to be uncomfortable with the idea she has to dominate the horse. she's being too nice. BTW: these same techniques will work with a husband as well...

That's so cool. I don't know anything about horses but I stumbled apon this and watched the whole thing.

Always throw my mind when I see horses for sale and many saying the following: aggressive in the box etc etc.... people really should learn horsy behaviour instead dream riding their pony. So many of them were taught bad behaviour.

This whole training experience was awesome to watch.

Jessica is still learning and I know how it feels to learn new things especially with horses so it will take time for her to get it right but Millie is also learning shes still young. Both are doing a great job and Ryan is a great teacher.

Now, I'm not a horse owner, I don't have a barn, so maybe I'm being shortsighted, but damn all those extension cords in a wooden building with hay everywhere would have my anxiety so high. On another note, I'm glad these folks take such good care of their animals and offer them the fans being powered by those cords. Awesome video too, i will be watching this channel a lot!

I just started watching this channel for fun! Ryan, you seem like an absolute expert with how you work with horses, very patient and gentle. My only interaction with horses was at a cousins house and the horse darted off and I fell off pretty hard but thankfully no broken bones. I'd like to interact with horses again, any thoughts about best way to start? Who knows, maybe I'll get a horse someday, they are so elegant and powerful! Thanks for sharing all your helpful tips, they're teaching me more about myself even though I don't own a horse!!!!

What a lovely girl..she obviously loves her horses

I have never owned horses and I will never own horses yet can't stop watching. 😄

Beautiful horse, so silky smooth looking. lol

Her body language is whoosey! She just doesn’t have a command presence about her.

Great save! Rescued the owner and stable hands PLUS the horse.

people saying that its cruel to "hit" the horse with the solid part of the whip clearly have never worked with horses and have never tried to train them, you let them get away with it once theyll keep doing it and someone will end up hurt.

One of the horses where i rideis a little good aggressive. So what they did is they put like a clicker thing in his stall and when it's feeding time the horse had been trained to go to the back of his stall and when we push the clicker he goes to the food and starts eating

Buck you! That was so funny 😂

This is just a nice version of Clinton Anderson

12:57 she's like, "no way am I f*ckin around with this dude..."

Natural horsemanship is the only way.

I like your way of training no abuse and you have a lot of patience! Great video

The original horse whisperer! Love the way he commands his space!

Best tool to teach a girl self confidence, a mare 😁 Stand in the pasture baby girl watch how the mares interact with the herd then you replicate that. You can do it, and the horses won’t be mad at you for it.

I dont know much about horses but i finde them very fascinating .

It is ALWAYS about teaching the Owner... This little girl is too weak and scared, etc., and the animals will sense it... The man said it - "You have to OWN the spot" .. This means coming from Inside YOU, not from what you learned only... It has to be YOU, Jessica ..Be Brave.. Not just Tell yourself to be Brave, but BE BRAVE.. YOU are IN CHARGE ALWAYS.. They will Know if if You are, or you are not... Thank you, Ryan Rose ! Ultimate experience and absolute Skills..

Spare the rod spoil the child apparently the same applies to horses lol 😂 great training she learned ✅

The "buck you" gesture is always fun--until one kicks a rock into your face. haha Great video. Cheers!

he missed adding a queue word for her to let her know that it's ok to come eat at the end. He left her questioning

This is why I taught my horse the cue "Wait" when I give him his food not in his stall. I just say "wait" and tug his head up and make him wait about 10 seconds before I let him eat. He's very food motivated and I did not want to have it turn into something like this.

I am a horse trainer in Sonoma County and I respect this so much. Your teaching style and understanding of horse psychology. Refreshing to see 🐎

Hey Ryan, it looks like your video has gone a bit viral, congrats on that. I was asked to check it out as a few of my own viewers have seen it and wondered a few things. I did end up watching from beginning to end, and while there are some good points made on understanding some horse behaviors and how to modify them, there were a few parts where you have likely taken this horse backwards and quite possibly even made it a more dangerous situation for the girl. I say this with some trepidation as I don't know what it looked like before and maybe just being able to get into that stall without getting beat up by the horse is the comparison, and in such a case she would be safer. So, in reality I don't know if it's safer, but I do know a few things that I thought I would pass on by just observing the video and giving what is essentially an objective set of facts that may be useful to you if you were to watch your own video back with a critical eye. 1. Very very likely this horse is hungry. I expect the feeding schedule is a 2 flakes on the floor a couple to three times a day. This will give a horse sustenance and allow them to live, but science has shown us that the horse's stomach works very different and in fact must have something in it just about at all times. I would encourage you to study on how the stomach works and why this horse likely has ulcers and the habits created are from survival and pain. Eating literally makes the pain go away. What would you do for something like that? 2. Part way into your technique of hitting to create aversion to the shaking, you turn around to talk to the girl and the horse continues with a pinned ear and fearful look. You literally trained the horse to expect to get hit every time you shook the bucket. Watch the horse closely each time. Sadly, you look very happy at this response near the end of this training of shake/hit. This type of classical training is very close to what race horses receive where a driver will have a bell or jingle some coins and then hit the horse to make them go faster. When they get on the race track they're not allowed to hit them as much as they do in practice so they jingle a bell. This gives the expectation of being hit. You can see this clearly in the response of the horse every time you shake the bucket (pure fear) and then every single time you approach. You have literally trained this horse to fear you and it's objectively visible in the horse. 3. As you trained you may notice you had to ramp up instead of ramping down. It never ended on anything other than fear in both you and the horse and the owner too sadly. Everybody is afraid. There were a few missed opportunities to pet her and tell her she is amazing, but none of them were taken. You could have provided reassurance and been a friend, but instead relied on aggression from yourself to "command her space". Now.... I get it, this is a very common approach in the horse world, but there are way better ways to get this done and I think the first is to address the horse having stomach problems due to lack of constant food. Food aggression doesn't happen in horses that aren't hungry or haven't experienced this issue of being starved (to a horse going a couple of hours without food is equivalent to starving as they don't think like we do nor does their biological process work the same) every single night or during the day when stuck in a 10x10 stall. Horse husbandry should be addressed. I agree with the idea to command space, I always make sure all my horses make room for me no matter the situation if it compromises my safety. This is very important when it comes to doctoring them and taking care of injuries etc. How you've done it though in this case has objectively shown to make the horse more fearful rather than comfortable with humans. Being both hungry and afraid is never a good combination with horses and some tools and techniques on how to get this horse happy that a human comes around would really go a long way I think. She was trapped as well and that can be very scary for horses which will quickly put them in defensive mode too. Sorry for the long book of a comment... I hope it's a little bit useful at least.

Here are no problem horses!! Just problem people not knowing how to train a horse so it understands what it is supposed to do!!!

Leave the head alone. Don't ever make a horses head a place of punishment or unnecessary discipline.

One horse that came to me was very food aggressive. The owner told me to take him out the stable, put his feed in the manger and return him. Beggar that! I had twenty plus horses to feed and if I had to do that with them all I’d be feeding lol day. This horse's manger was at the back of the stable. I fed him and his butt was blocking the door. As I walked towards the door so he swung towards me lifting his leg to kick me. I held the empty bucket so he kicked that. It flew up in the air, hit the wall, bounced and hit him on top of his head. He shot around the stable and I kept kicking the bucket between his legs for about three circuits. He was exceedingly respectful of me after that, moving back when I placed his feed and moving his butt away from the door. Owner couldn’t believe it when she saw him feeding.

I thought that horse behind her was Millie at first… until I saw it was not her 😂😂😂👀

"problem horse" no problem people

I think what could really help her be more assertive, is to see herself on tape and see truly how she appears in her physical motion. Is the having a bit of a girlish, careful, hip-dip to the side stance, or is she moving strong, shoulders square, chin up etc. I think to practise on that appearance will really help her improve on her body language :)

Good video ! I had no idea Horses could have food aggression ! I certainly wouldn't want to be bitten Yikes!!

If the horse moves regardless how hard she does it then she got her point across she doesn't have to be aggressive. You got this young lady .may God bless you 🙏

This was well done. I have one right now doing this. Thanks for sharing. This is helpful.

I'm no equestrian expert, but I can see that you're as talented at working with humans as you are with horses. I've picked up *mad skills reading human beings* from your videos 😃 Alas, I'm not wealthy enough to develop a relationship with a horse, but opportunity arises, I'll be ready.

It takes courage to go on youtube and be criticized, good job both of you. I don't know how old Jessica is but I would hope she will be taking a few more lessons from you to build her confidence, body language positions and most important, enforcing her commands. If Millie is involved that would be good but she seems a bit too smart and quick at learning and Jessica is rightfully afraid of her. The only way for Jessica to get better is by practicing her commands with body language skills on several different horses and becoming confident by receiving similar responses from different horses. I am much older now but I remember the first time I dealt with this particular horse behavior in the 1970's. Same behavior different horse...Jessica, You have to watch horses, learn how important timing is to these beautiful creatures and know that you are not going to hurt that horse with that stick, remember they communicate with 1000lb bodies, teeth and hooves. That stick, swinging the rope is what literally makes you bigger and is what will keep you safe if they get aggressive. Beautiful horse and mimic Mr. Rose's timing and movements 100%, watch the video over and over until you look and move like him around all horses. Mr. Rose let these girls correct their horses as much as possible, they have to learn how to do it.

WHAT IS WEONG WITH YOU !! Hitting THE HORSE IN THE FACE HITTING HARD IN ITS STABLE I HOPE THAT HORSE GETS SENT AWAY FROM YOU ALL YOUR HORSES YOU ARE SO DISGUISTING !!! I HEARD THAT WHIP HUT THAT POOR SCARED HORSE THIS IS NOT HORSE MAN SHIP AND THE FACT THAT PEOPLE SUPPORT THIS GUY!!!!!!!😡😭😡😡😡

I don't even have a horse or prospects of ever having one, but this man is brilliant with those animals and I'm hooked!

THAT GIRL NEEDS MORE TEACHING, SHES VERY INEXPERIENCED!!! RYAN DID AN AMAZING JOB!!!!!

My first horse was food aggressive, soooo I would just herd her out of the stall, put her food out, and let her back in. Soon she did it on her own. Worked for us-she was a Very smart girl. We grew up together..🐴🚂

Always interesting to see how we females have to be really conscience of having to change our normal stance to present big and strong. Shoulders BACK, CHEST OUT, and standing TALL are not how we normally go thru life. But we can ♥️👍♥️

Thank you for being a real horseman. And this is awesome.

Had a nursing Missori Foxtrootter foal that went from sweet to a monster as soon as she began to eat grain. She would stalk me with pinned ears and teeth bared. I sent her to a good trainer that solved the problem, but he said it took several weeks. She is one of smartest fillies he has ever seen, and that was part of the problem. She still gets excited at feeding time, but the aggression is gone.

The same people who say that what he did is abuse and that punishment is abuse are the same people who put dogs in the pound because they didn't read the signs and they didn't take action. I've seen people be so clueless with dogs and their signs and completely ignore them because "oh mr snuggles was having a bad day, he's just grumpy". Instead of correcting that issue they let it get out of hand and eventually the dog snaps and the owners act all surprised.

Horses look like such innocent angels, so cute and precious. A bit hard to believe they can be so nasty and aggressive.

In my country, we never attack horses, we tame them without violence, that's how we get a friend, not an animal subdued by fear, they are faithful animals for a lifetime, but an animal tamed with your method is unpredictable and sooner or later and when you least expect it he will take revenge ...

I understand the "this is my bubble" concept but might this cause a "catch me not" attitude in the pasture?

'Problem horse?'---------No. Problem human?----------yes. It is never the horse's fault. The food aggression was taught to the horse by people.

I hope nobody thinks this is mean he’s horses have to know their place. He’s overdo it, but he’s not overdoing it.