I've only been around horses a couple times growing up. I'm 33 now and we recently bought a horse. Not knowing the technique you used to get your horse to come to you, that's exactly what I had done. I had good instincts! Thank you for your video!
I love this method of training, I also have a hard to catch mare. It is her only fault to be honest, she rides like a dream. But I have been working with your method and she is responding. People just need to give it a chance. It may take longer than in your video but the logic is sound
I signed in just so I could comment. People don't seem to understand basic psychology and are more happy to rehash old information instead of putting the effort in to learn something new. This is operant conditioning, it is a method of learning that occurs through reinforcements and punishments for behaviour. It encourages the subject to associate desirable or undesirable outcomes with certain behaviours. In this instance, the behaviour is being reinforced with positive reinforcement (giving a treat). To use this method to train a horse to come with you, you must reward the horse every single time he comes up to you, again and again until he's got it down pat, once the horse readily comes up to you and waits for his treat, you begin to phase out treat giving. Give a treat one time, maybe skip the next two times, maybe give two treats in a row, skip and slow phase out giving the treat and make it a rare event. Keep it random so that the horse can never 'guess' when he's going to get a reward or not. To avoid the horse becoming aggressive for his treats, you can mark the behaviour with a click or consistent verbal command like "Good". This tells the horse that what he did was correct and that the reward is coming, then you can present the treat to him when he is calm, not pushing or nibbling and is in a state of respect. Bomb/drug dogs are trained through operant conditioning but with a toy as the reward and not a treat, but you don't see them bouncing all over their human and being disrespectful, trying to play. It's all in the training.
I am going to try that on the horse I lease. Both the ownerand I have issues catching him. Usually we have to remove al of the horses from the pasture just to catch him. Tried for an hour when the farrier came, couldnt catch him so he didnt get his feet done. I also come very close to getting kicked by him trying to catch him. Last week I wasnt able to catch him to ride, so I ended up riding another horse.
Thank for the free advice again I said "FREE advice N VIDEO" that each individual puts on RU-vid.Horses are like people they all have different personalities, and same with their owner's. It may or may not work. If it don't well thank you. But I really appreciate the Free advice N Video's from everyone who give's it no matter "WHAT" advice. I'm so tired of seeing Nasty Judgmental, and rude commenting You-Tuber's.
I ran across a saying a couple years ago that I'm still trying to wrap my mind around... "Every horse goes through life looking for his human." A dog will love anyone who gives it food and affection. Makes no difference what the dog, or the human, looks like. Dogs don't care and humans don't care that much either. But it seems that horses do. They care a lot. To my way of thinking, it's the same process that humans go through when selecting a life mate. It has to have that "zing!" There has to be a "Love Connection". Sure like to talk to an animal behaviorist about this.
ok so one of my horses, misty, doesnt like to see the lead rope because she knows she will be have to be tacked. i tried this on her and now shes can just walk up to me instead of me getting oats just to get her. Thanks Dennis!
i have that same issue only mine is blind in one eye and no dummy! ive done everything all the training vids have shown but he refuses to cooperate and i dont think hes ever been handled before its almost as if he was just taken from the wild! its been a year and a half and i can get near and give a nuzzle kiss but anything involving me toughing his body involves him bolting on my 3 acres of land. hopefully one day it can change! Good luck to your mare as well!
My mare has to be hugged before she lets you touch her halter, but she won't let me come near her. I have tried a join up with her. it worked, but when she was in the field she didn't go anywhere near me again. I just bought her not to long ago and I need her to come when i call her so i don't have to take hours just to try to catch her every time i get her.
I have a rescue from a neglect case, she's nearly impossible to catch if not in a smaller pasture. I hate "bribing" her to get her attention. once I do catch her, she's wonderful. But I'd like to catch her immediately, without so much bribing. If she doesn't smell her food, then say toodles to her head and hello to her rear as she goes the other direction. she' moves to fast to get in front of her drive line...can you make a video with a horse with a similar issue
@sweetriddle101 When you sense he's about to move off you back off first, look away, walk sideways towards him, find a way not to look like a hunter after him. Keep at it with patience. The join up in a pen is very good cos he will follow you like a little dog in that pen. A light, strong, thin rope in your pocket is easier to carry than the halter, you can put it around his neck and take him to where you have the halter. All this i've done, I'm not a pro, just be patient and willing!good luck.
I need some advice I got a new horse called Albert,he's a Darling. He's a gelding. But the thing is he's just been moved from the old paddock to a new on and ovs has loads of grass but that's the problem! There are two other geldings in this field, ziggy and Bertie. Sometimes they influence Albert and as a trio they all gallop around the paddocks bucking and going mad. This makes it impossible to catch. I have been recently bribing him with food but don't like doing this. Also sometime I manage to get Albert but the other two gallop past him when I take him in and sets him off again which is dangerous because of the lead rope. Please help and reply ASAP. Thx Hannah
Isn't that what horses do? Run in a herd? Like dogs run in packs? I know next to nothing about horses but if I were in that situation, I'd take a chair and a book and I'd sit in that paddock for a few days. And I'd take a bag of apples and eat them. It won't take long before the horses come over and see what you're up to. Then you can choose to share your apples, or not. Most of the time, no. Let them know who's boss. That's the key. Any animal must be made to understand that they are absolutely subordinate to a human and dependent upon a human. When your dog challenges your authority, withhold his food for a couple days, then give him a half-portion. The mutt will get the idea real quick. He'll learn to mind his manners. Giving a horse apples is not a reward thing. You are making the horse understand that there's only one source for delicious apples - you. And he has to learn to follow orders before he gets an apple. Read something about Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's experiments with his dogs and the theory of "Conditioned Reflex"... If you know what you're doing, you can make a horse sing "The Star Spangled Banner" while dancing the hoochie-coo...or close, anyway...
so i have a question, how do i try this w a rescue horse with a blind eye and is people shy? most people cant get 10 feet near him and i have about 3 acres of land so he always runs off and "treats" wont work even if its regular grain or sweets like apples or anything. ive been able to get close enough to stand a good 3 feet but the minute i even kissy noise, he bolts..any tips?
Everytime I step out of the barn with a halter he runs the other way or gets to were I can touch him with one hand but as soon as I bring the halter up he runs away,
Umm well it helps to have a bond with ur horse , I want my horse coming to me not for treats but for spending time with me. But anyways it did help a little bit thank you :)
this would not work at all with the horses i have srry but try a little bit hard like when your 30 ft away he bolts away from you and you have to chase and chase and chase untill he decides that he doesnt want to run any more which is about 40mins later.
@jojoey5555 oh no.. what i did with Legend when he had troubles was to give him grain at first, then after awhile take it away slowly. He doesnt carenow if he gets grain or not
@sweetriddle101 Bad news to read this. Now I won't say I'm a pro I'll just say whay I know from experience. I have 4 horses in the countryside in Spain, Europe. Been around horses all my life and now 44yro. Si it's all about patience, don't go up to him showing how you really need to catch him, he senses that. Go even when you don't need to, stay close, pet him and walk off. Use treats, find out which side is easier, some freeze when you touch a foreleg, others its something else.
When you hand feed any horse with threats; the horse thinks I am now the boss I just claim this humans food. Same as the pecking order when you put out one pille of grain the boss horse claims the food.....So it is not the threat itself it is feeding out of your hand if you were to put the threat in a pail on the ground it would not cause the issues associated with hand threats.....that cause pushy, demanding horses....not to mention bribing...............and I have been training for 37 years....
btw this is abi and i wanted to let you know we didnt stand on the hard to catch horse and i am a very skilled rider, and all of my friends who have seen me agree
this is a friend. i wanted to say, how about you learn some horsefriendship. because see, this video establishes TREATSHIP. horses responds better to FRIENDSHIP, especially a gelding/stallion. by the way, we race the horses we ride at the end of our ride. and they jump over holes that are in the ground unexpectedly, and jump to the side just to have fun. I'm pretty sure we have good horsemanship, since i rode my 2 year old untrained filly in only, like a day of owning her the most three. mike
NO NO NO Do not do this....you will only create another bad habit...nipping and biting. This is not "horse language" . The horse will only learn to disrespect the "treat giver".
If you feel the need to use treats to get your horse to do a task, then you do not understand horses. In the mind of the horse you need to be seen as the leader of the 'herd'. You need to understand how to communicate with the horse the way horses 'talk' to each other.
This is a senseless video. The horse walks up to him immediately then he pushes it away in the first seconds in the round pen. No one learns anything about catching a horse that doesn’t want to be caught.
Maybe your horses don't like what happens after they're caught. Maybe learn more about horsemanship. I had a co-worker ruin a horse for catching, because she beat on it AFTER she caught it. How dumb is that? Didn't take me long to fix, but good grief... Maybe learn riding, not standing on their backs. Just a thought.
how come even trainers use a snack to catch a horse? everyone could do that by using a treat as a bait...so a video about doing this is kinda pointless :x if you can't catch a horse you've made a mistake somewhere and you won't fix that problem by feeding your horse some treats! that is like giving a child a lollipop to make it stop crying...
