When to start halter breaking a foal
Halter Breaking a Foal
so we have a little
fold here that's about five or six
months old hasn't
weand yet and we're going
to start teaching this horse to follow
the feel and at least the beginnings of
halter breaking and Deniz had her hands
on this little foal of some and had a
halter on him but this is the first time
she's ever put a lead rope on him and
the first time we're gonna try to get
him to give two pressure so Dan and go
ahead and just take your rope and just
put about five pounds of pressure there
and just hold it and right there
beautiful so we got one step toward you
okay and he's thinking about milk go
ahead and do it again a little more
pressure on him Oh beautiful okay nice
so we don't want to get in a fight with
this little baby certainly don't want to
get in a fight with him but we do want
to keep teaching him so every time you
do it let him rest for about ten seconds
and then do it again pressure just hold
it gently hold it gently hold it gently
just hold that pressure wait until you
get until he comes takes a step just
hold it and okay that's good it was yeah
it wasn't a full step but he did give to
the pressure so we want to release that
so we want to teach this baby right now
pressure and release and we just had a
very really horrible thing happen here
at this stables in fact if my camera
person will swing around we just had a
stallion just about 20 minutes ago who
pulled back and flipped over and broke
his neck and I you know that's such a
horrible sad thing and that was an
expensive horse too not that that makes
that much difference but thank you so
you know we were just getting ready to
start this little session when that
happened and if we can teach this whole
to this now pressure and release then
that will never happen to him
unfortunately that horse had never been
taught how to properly give the pressure
so we're gonna keep doing this so just
step over to the side pressure and
release good rub him rub him right
between his eyes good
now do it switch sides and let you go to
his right side
so we want to do it from both sides go
ahead and pressure hold it and release
good so we want to release and we might
even get this little horse to lead out a
little bit here in a second okay good
okay just keep doing it pressure
pressure and release good good good good
now if he walks off and hits the end of
the rope then just let him teach himself
you know if he walks away and gets to
the end of that rope pressure good he's
figuring it out all right he's figuring
it out pretty fast he's a smart little
guy okay do it again pressure yeah and
it's it's much wiser to do this at an
angle about a forty-five to a ninety
degree angle from his head because if
you're doing it straight in front of him
he's much more likely to pull back he's
much more likely to get in a fight with
you but to the side it just makes it a
lot easier for him to figure it out and
to give to it good and what I would do
with a baby like this the first few
times I let him I would just lead him
from side to side I wouldn't try to lead
him straight ahead maybe about the
second or third day if he was figuring
it out pretty well and then I'd start
you know leading him straight ahead and
keep doing it you're doing great I just
alternate from one side to the other
hold it hold it and beautiful beautiful
go heads take another step to his that
way and do it again yeah it doesn't
really matter but yeah like that I like
that a lot
okay rob him do it again good again
okay now if this little baby got stuck
which he hasn't it would wouldn't be
terrible for me to walk up behind him
and just you know maybe shake the rope
at him or something to move him out to
help him figure it out
but he hasn't needed any help he's
figuring it out on his own okay stop
kissing him and get back to work get
back to work okay that's that's what
happens with women in the horse industry
and want to kiss the horse okay good
just keep doing it
yeah he's figuring it out pretty fast
that's really good that's really good
there he took about three steps without
any pressure good go the other way so
I'm really pleased with how he's
figuring this out so you don't want to
drag these little Colts around we could
he's young enough small enough we could
get a couple of these big guys and go
dragging him around but that wouldn't
teach him to give to pressure and that's
what we're trying to teach him when you
feel that just give to it and it will go
away okay hold it good a little trouble
with that go ahead do it again good okay
now something scared him there but what
I really liked about that was when he
hit the end of that rope he didn't fight
it okay good so now she's being just a
little more assertive I like that I
think he can handle just yeah just a
little more pressure asking just a
little bit more of him keep doing it
because he's figured it out excellent
so we've almost halter broke this baby
in ten minutes I wouldn't do much more
than that today because their attention
span is pretty short you know so I would
just say that's a good place to stop and
then tomorrow we'll come back do the
same session again and he'll probably be
leading out pretty easily by tomorrow or
by the next day and so yeah go ahead and
take it off so he that's how you halter
rake a baby
