How Muck Boots Help Train Horses - Supplements & Vet Care - Rick Gore Horsemanship

http://www.thinklikeahorse.org/
- Here I talk about why wearing muck or water proof boots when working with horses help teach good lessons. If you do NOT wear water boots you will avoid water and mud, you will not act natural, you will act worried or scared of mud and water puddles, this will send conflicting messages to your horse.

I also talk about changing a horses diet and follow up on a questions about feeding horses and briefly talk about shots and how you should spread them out over time and not give all shots at one time. I also talk about my website and UC Davis web site about horse health and cutting edge horse care. Here is a link to UCD website: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/

Here is a link to the Muck Boots store:
http://www.muckbootcompany.com/women/farm-ranch-work/Pages/HoserClassicHi.aspx

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[PenguinPownage]

Hey Rick, I had a question about the boots. Are they comfortable to ride in? Are they really bulky, as in would they get stuck in the stirrups? If not do you know any other kind of boot thats warm, waterpoof, AND good for riding? Thanks, I love your videos.

[horseawareness]

@PenguinPownage : Riding in big rubber boots will get you stuck in stirrup, so finding a water proof boot or putting some mink oil or other water proofing on you your reg riding boots would be better.

[rharnack1]

hey this really has nothing to do with the subject of your video, but it does have to do with horses. Last year one of our horses had a freak trailer accident. He seems to almost have PTSD from the accident and panics when we get up to highway speed, and has now totaled our trailer. Do you have any tips for us to help him get through this traumatic experience so we can trailer normally again?

[horseawareness]

@rharnack1 : "Freak Accident" that normally means someone did something and did not protect the horse and the horse had to pay. Freak Accidents is when lightening strikes, anything else is normally human error blamed on accident. Since you did not explain this so called accident how do you expect me to try and help?

[rharnack1]

@horseawareness What happened was we were on the highway with a two horse slant load trailer with the horse in the front section. now the divider has a pin in it to keep it attached to the trailer itself and so it can move back and forth. somehow the horse got the divider off of this pin (the only way for him to have done this was to lift the divider up high enough to come off of the pin) and the divider fell on him pinning him against the front wall of the trailer.

[horseawareness]

@rharnack1 : Not as bad as I thought, but still going to take time to fix. My trailer has this allso, but the is a hole at the bottom of pin so you put a wire or pin in so that can't happen, So who ever did not ensure that this could not happen is at fault and now the horse has learned a bad lesson (not to trust the trailer). The horse has to exposed to the trailer with no divider so it can move and feel safe, then with the divider. Since you or someone let this happen it may not be fixed.

[horseawareness]

@horseawareness : Notice the comment was removed from @rharnack1, this lady wants to blame the horse for her setting the horse up to get hurt in a trailer and then when I point it out to her, she knows she looks foolish so she deletes her comment. The problems with her horse is her, it is about her, her ego, her need to be right, her inability to accept any responsibility, so she continues to make it the "Horse's " fault, so it can't be her lack of knowledge, very typical.

[ThundernWildfire]

@rharnack1 What you need to do, is set up a camera in the trailer...take out the divider wall, and drive...it is going to take a lot of driving nowhere, to get this horse over it, if you are not prepared to spent a lot of money on gas, than don't bother starting this...watch the horse's body language...the sec he starts to show the littlest amount of fear, stay at that speed. (I am betting it is a lot slower than what you think) when the horse relaxes, slow down more, for release....repeat

[erics400]

I totally agree with you, muck boots are very good(I just get the cheap ones, because money is few and far between). Also, I can't stand it when people get mad at horses, for example getting your foot stepped on, yeah it hurts, but they didn't mean it. I love horses and don't think I could ever be mad at one.

[rharnack1]

@horseawareness yes it was completely our fault for not checking that the pin had a stopper on it to prevent this exact thing from happening. most decent trailers have it that way, and we didn't notice that ours did not. the odd thing is that the horse is completely fine in the trailer (doesn't matter if its ours or not) until we get up to highway speed. He associates the accident with the speed, or noise of the road, that was happening at the time the divider fell on him.

[rharnack1]

@horseawareness we have a two horse slant load trailer. now as im sure u have seen before there is a pin that goes into the end of the divider that attaches it to the wall of the trailer and allows it to swing. The horse was in the front section and he somehow got the divider off of that pin and it fell on him and trapped him against the wall. the only we can think of to explain how this happened is that he somehow lifted the divider up (with his back) off of the pin and im outta room