Well some of you probably read my other thread about project horse rearing.
I went to see the 'said' horse today and it turns out he never reared... The novice guy went to get on, didnt get on properly and spooked him and he trotted off and novice guy just fell off. Seems once your on he's fine just learnt to get away with it or been spooked.
Anyways, he's a beautiful horse and my heart went out to him. He's just been left in a field with no attention other than feed and he just looked utterly miserable so I am now the proud owner of a new horse havent got him yet but deposit is paid.
Well seems like the mounting issue is not so much a problem as the catching. They can catch him if they corner him but I dont like that and nor do they so they've just tried catching him and if he ran off they just left it because theyre not that interested in him. Theres not a nasty bone in his body he's just nervous.
So when I get him home it'l be stabled 48hrs (yard rule) then out into a smallish field where im going to work with him every day on catching.
He'll come up and sniff and eat treats but any move to touch him or catch him and he walks/trots off. I think he's partly nervous and clever!
So any ideas on catching tips would be extremely helpful! Il let you all know when he's home with me and of course il post some pictures
I went to see the 'said' horse today and it turns out he never reared... The novice guy went to get on, didnt get on properly and spooked him and he trotted off and novice guy just fell off. Seems once your on he's fine just learnt to get away with it or been spooked.
Anyways, he's a beautiful horse and my heart went out to him. He's just been left in a field with no attention other than feed and he just looked utterly miserable so I am now the proud owner of a new horse havent got him yet but deposit is paid.
Well seems like the mounting issue is not so much a problem as the catching. They can catch him if they corner him but I dont like that and nor do they so they've just tried catching him and if he ran off they just left it because theyre not that interested in him. Theres not a nasty bone in his body he's just nervous.
So when I get him home it'l be stabled 48hrs (yard rule) then out into a smallish field where im going to work with him every day on catching.
He'll come up and sniff and eat treats but any move to touch him or catch him and he walks/trots off. I think he's partly nervous and clever!
So any ideas on catching tips would be extremely helpful! Il let you all know when he's home with me and of course il post some pictures