Part2 Equine Body Lang. Study, Train Horse to Pick Up Feet

[BigDreamsComing]

I love the approach you have towards horses and how you know their behavior so well! I'd love to see more posts on learning behaviors and things for beginners!

You inspire me!

[pummy369]

Man would I love to just hang out with you and your horse for a while and watch and learn. Please do more videos for beginning students (of the human variety)and also on understanding horse body language. I'm not confident in all the videos available on-line but I feel confident in what you are presenting here. I like your gentle and patient manner with the horse and his response to you and would like learn more from you. You're a good role model and teacher. Keep up the videos.

[abirdslife]

Very good job!

[welcometopemberley]

Thank you!

[evanswelsh]

That's a lot to accomplish in 10 minutes. I bet it felt like forever, tho!

[cowgirl77m]

Great video! WOW how refreshing to see a competent handler TEACHING the horse to allow his feet to be handled vs the standard cause pain grab the foot and hang on approach. So many people don't take the time to TEACH the horse to have their feet handled. I appreciate your approach you are very insightful and I like your quiet respectful handling style, and the positive reward conditioning. Focusing on what you want instead of 'getting after him' when he is confused or "acting up". Great job!

[welcometopemberley]

Thanks! I really dislike the "just grab it and hang on" approach too. We did this 3 times for 15 minutes with Patrick and he stood great for his first trim. That was all the hoof handling he'd ever had and had only been halter trained for about 3 days when we started the hoof work. He came to the rescue as a yearling. He and his 5 siblings were all feral. It was a super fun project and I'm glad to be able to share it with everyone. Thanks for your great comment!

[slayershayne]

nice vid whats its name?

[welcometopemberley]

The video's name? Equine Body Language Study, Training a Horse to Pick Up His Feet :) The horse is named Patrick.

Thanks for your comment!

[lesfreeman3]

It's great to see how working on the feet can work on so many aspects of their learning and psychology.

[welcometopemberley]

Yes, I was really interested in showing the small changes in the horse's body language here rather than showing people how to do foot work. I'll make another video for foot work showing how to use the demo horse, because that's really the way to go :) I thought this was a great video to see how a right brain introvert improves during a training session. RBI horses make such slight changes that they can be hard to see, but if you know what to look for, you can reward them and lessen frustration.