CowboyBob

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thank you . I do enjoy talking horses. I don't get as much horse time as you do, no doubt. So talk has to fill the gap.
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If this is a thoroughbred, or some thbd in him, he may have very thin skin. your brush may be too stiff and prickly and you may need to slow down your movement. Grooming is not pleaseant for him,...

Then at this age I would just make sure you are feeling her well and let her grow up. Her muscle will come with age. If she is broke keep things short at this stage in the game, as she is still...

Ditto - dont tie the foot... just use the rope in your hand for a give/release ~ using it just like you would your hand. I have had very few reasons in 21 years of handling and training to...

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The horse may do exactly what you tell her to do when it's something she is comfortable with. You haven't yet gained her respect, and therefore she sees no reason to listen to you when you ask her to...

Back Feet ~ A lot of patience! What is working for us (have a yearling filly who is stubborn - had her since birth so not that she hasn't had them handled). For her we are using the old "use the...

Just keep working with them. Haul them out and about. Get them used to different locations and learn that they are expected to behave away from home as well as at home. We pony our yearlings, lightly...

You have done enough, turn them out to pasture to let them grow and clear their minds. Leading, ground manners, and a bit of longeing (if you are showing in longe line classes), are all that's...

Bob is completely right here. It appears to me that you may not have a water crossing issue, but instead a trust, training, disrespect issue rearing itself out as a water crossing issue. Horses...

Getting to the point quickly. " I have had Jane for a week and a half. I've done groundwork, free lounging and did a couple 'bombproofing' sessions" A week and a half, DOES NOT a trained horse,...

I can do some work here at home but the training ground is the trail. Fun, interesting and no end of obstacles! :-)

Horses learn to trust you and to move forward on command. Its just a matter of teaching your horse, as the others have pointed out. It really doesn't matter what the object is that you are crossing,...

OP, IMHO you would like somebody to come over and fix this for you. Maybe the pigs will fly today and that will happen. I'm sorry that you can't tell that you've been given REALLY GOOD ADVICE. ...

I totally agree it is a training/respect issue. When I first started riding my horse she wanted nothing to do with the creek running through our property. She was a stubborn mule and absolutely would...

We did eventually get him over, but only because someone on the other side pulled him across. We were planning on tossing a rope over to the people who made it across and have them pull him over...