Parelli Instructor Kevin Bolf shows us Feeding with Respect

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Kevin Bolf is a 2 Star Junior Parelli Instructor who taught his horses respect at feeding time after one of them went after his wife. Kevin will also be writing a blog about how he achieved this harmony at feeding time.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Horse Training
• Parelli natural Horsemanship
• Respect
• Feeding
• Graining
• Kevin Bolf
• Parelli Instructor

[TheSteelpony]

I LOVE it! Great job! It's important that your animals respect you all the time, especially at feeding. They can get so selfish and pushy at that moment.

[RSW1950]

circus music for circus tricks... really don't see the point unless it is for small children.

[gmwwc]

Now, THAT is impressive.

[0francisbonnefoy0]

How do you teach them this?? I want to do this

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie

Sorry it got long and probably confusing but I couln't figure out how to do it any other way. Tried to post a web site to go to but didn't work.

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie

with her or she would be in the next county. The hardest one, which happened to be the last one, and the mother of my horse, is an LBI. When I asked her to stay out of the bucket she would turn away and sometimes walk away. She is always the first one to come running when its feeding time, but it wasn’t worth it to her if it wasn’t her idea. She is the only one I had to put a halter and lead rope on as well as being very, very savvy.

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie

I started with one horse at a time, taking into consideration their different Horsenalities, because everyone was amazingly different. The first horse was the easiest, she is very smart, sensitive and we have an awesome relationship. One horse is an LBI, she kind of thinks she can do whatever she wants by ignoring me and the other horses. She was the hardest to keep away from the other’s buckets. One horse is an extreme RBE, so you had to be very, very light

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie putting their heads down together and then I would start teaching the next horse.

I had decided I would get three of the horses to wait together and leave the old girl of the group alone. I made a video of the three and several people pointed out that one horse didn’t wait her turn. I figured I might as well teach her too.

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie away, (keep in mind the other horses were eating around her), that started to get boring, so I started teaching another horse. There are four horses.

Blue would now wait as long as I wanted her to, so I would hurry and feed two of the horses and get the next horse I was going to start with, to stay out of the bucket. Next I would signal Blue that it was ok to eat and start playing with the other horse. Pretty soon I had two horses

[kevinbolf]

@ernniie

The next day we did a lot of YO YO games until she came in with her ears forward and asking, “can I eat now?” I held my hand out by her nose - let her sniff my hand - and lead her head down with my hand to the bucket. I would do the same thing every day until we had that down really well. Then I would go back further and further every day until I was about 30 feet away, (keep in mind the other horses were eating around her), that started to get boring, so I started