Help Trailering a VERY diffcult mare

she has been texting me already today to tell me how happy she is with her. She definitely knows all the trailering issues.She will be working alot with the trailering and is prepaired that she may not ever have a great loading horse.

I actually don't hate her I did hat the trailer thing but I felt bad that she was trained so roughly in the beginng and it made her the way she is.

I am glad she is gone though

Hands Critter a large glass of whatever she fancies, you deserve it.

I didn't go through all 11 pages.

I am glad the new owner loves her and understanding with her loading issues!

While loading into a tiny 2 horse, a friends horse would get half in/half out and then come blasting back out with any pressure. She walked him up again and I started tapping the back legs and he stepped on up. I guess the tapping kept the backs legs active and it was drama free!

If that wasn't tried, it is definite worth an attempt with the new owner.

Thank you GH I still have not had that Glass yet LOL I did take the kiddo for supper and Icecream though.. I need to have that drink and relax a little

yes that tapping and others were tried.. I think her new Owner will do great with her and in the end the lariat and the pressure it gave worked best.

I once owned a horse who was known for NOT being able to load. He was a 16'3hh thoroughbred who just would not trailer. The way I deal with something like this is dealing with the situation THAT DAY, and not dwell on what might be causing the behavior(whether it be he/she won't load because of fear, previous accident/stubborness etc). If you try to load based on those fears, that will translate into YOUR behaviors while trying to load that given horse, which they sense.

This method of doing this, will require you to start off your mind on a blank slate, will require patience and will require time. If you're on a time crunch then don't this until you have the time to invest into this.

I did this once with him, and I never had issues again.

Put your horse on a lunge line, and open up the trailer ready for loading. Have a lunging whip with you. What you are going to be doing is giving your horse 2 options: 1) load onto the trailer or 2)work hard on the lunge line instead of loading into the trailer. My gelding had to learn that it was easier to load onto the trailer(have feed ready to go with it), than to work hard.

Ask her/him to load onto the trailer the way you normally do, if the horse does NOT load, you instantly ask for a brisk trot on the lunge line and by brisk I mean a GOOD strong working trot(no lazy slacking trot). I would do 4-5 good circles then stop her/him and ask to load into the trailer again. Repeat as needed until he/she loads.

It tooks me TWO HOURS the day I did this with my gelding, because he would not load. Once he loaded, I turned it into a party, pats! "good boy!" and lots of treats. Only once after that day did he hesitate to load, and all I did was one "lunging" circle on just the lead rope I had on, and he remembered! Right on he loaded.

By the end of this, I had a horse who I had to simply verbally ask "walk on" with no aids at all, and he would walk himself onto the trailer. I never got mad at him, never got frustrated, I just gave HIM the options of what he wanted to do. He realized the trailering one was a great one.

Good luck.

Edited to say We did this with her just the way you are and it does not work with her Just stresses her out and she becomes hostile the first loading went like this and it took 8 1/2 hours. This last one took 5 days and my Amazing daughter whom I have so much respect finally loaded her alone with a lariat butt loop and lead.. thank you for the info

as you may have seen at the end she was loaded.... Great info though

LOL, didn't work with Ben either, he just got stressed and hostile, the lariat butt rope, that is my go to from now on

I'll send Bre to help