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I would have never though-arab/welsh yearling

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Today my husband and I got a arab/welsh yearling. She has had some clinton anderson training and lowers her head when asked,backs up,halters,leads,picks up feet,ec...she is still a bit skittish but she wasn't imprinted at birth and hadn't had a whole lot of human contact untill Piaffe(member of these boards) rescued her and her mama...my mom got her and she mentioned to her that she might consider selling her.Anyways,I got her for free :D She will or should mature to 14.3-15 hh with the string test thing. We will do baby steps on training and do some desensitizing as she still needs a lot of work...annnnyways...I would have never though I would ever get an arab or an arab cross....I guess I shouldn't say never!:lol: Anyways she is coming to the barn this week sometime so I will get pictures..her mane is long and her tail is getting pretty long too!
 
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I will get pics this week of her. Yea,it's the same little filly Piaffe had a few months back. She has grown! She will be built small but a decent size. Our plans are to work with her and we will probably have someone break her as I think she might be a handful with that unless she starts to really trust..she has trust issues so we are going to take things slow....she is SO CUTE!
I hope Gidget likes her. Her eyes are HUGE!
 
#12 ·
She is coming to our barn on tuesday! She is getting her hoofies trimmed and that evening we are picking her up.

So this is my idea.

She is still a bit skittish and I don't blame her. She hasn't had a ton of human contact when she was younger and it does make a big difference. Anyways, I plan on stalling her first for quite some time...We will give her a run so she can walk around and get fresh air. The reason I am doing this is so she can get to know us and not buddy up with the other horses in the pastures. Once she knows we aren't going to kill her she will be able to go outside.

She is shedding her baby coat right now so she kind of reminds me of an appy :P

Tomorrow are pictures!
 
#13 ·
When I got my filly she was 10 months and had probably been touched only a handful of times. She didn't lead, she wouldnt let me near her at all.

It can be done in a million and one ways of course :) My way was to take over her feed pan. I would come in her paddock with her feed, put it down take a hand full of grain and she wasn't allowed to go to her feed without taking some from me. Then I increased to her taking some from me and letting me touch her. Before I knew it I could rub her all over, pick up her feet. Now she is the most social little butterfly :)

Don't worry to much. You two will work it out and she will be your best bud in no time!
 
#14 ·
Thanks for the encouragement!

I'm excited about it and you guys will get plenty of posts probably when I need advice.

Oh and btw..I heard it was bad to lunge a yearling but someone told me it was fine to lunge a horse for aboutr 15 minutes a day at her age.I would think with being lunged it puts them at an angle to where it's bad on their joints...am I correct? I know probably a lot of people will be opinionated but I want her to have good joints...sooo..
 
#15 ·
It shouldn't hurt her to lunge her 15 mins a day. Just be easy with her. That's what we did with our filly. Their attention span is only about 15 mins anyway. Lunging is supposed to be about getting the horse to listen to you not just working off excessive energy.
 
#16 · (Edited)
I was looking through my notes & our filly was closer to being 2 when we started lunging her not a year like I thought. We were still working on ground manners, desensitizing, and stuff like that when she was around a year old.
Sorry for the wrong info
Like I said though it was real light at first.
 
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Gidget, I hope when you keep her in a stall there's a horse in beside her. You have to see this from her point of view. She is young and vulnerable to attack as she's still reliant on another horse/s to warn of danger. You know there's no danger but she doesn't. She may feel trapped in the stall and you could wind up with a filly that is very difficult to handle, especially when you try to walk her to the paddock. A horse that is fear driven will hurt it's handlers and itself as it's not thinking only reacting. I worked for a breeder of Welsh Arab ponies and found them to be very smart. Smart enough that one didn't want to make a mistake with their training.
 
#26 ·
She is here! Finally!

Enjoy.She's going to be tall. She has a hay belly but we will work on that slowly.Right now we are working on tying,leading,stopping,yielding...simple things but done slowly.She knows how to do these things but needs to perfect them :) I adjusted the color some as it was pretty light.









 
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