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secuono · Jan 4, 2016

thistlebloom said:
Secuono, does the center divider come out of your trailer somewhat easily?
A lot of horses are reasonably scared of putting their feet where there is no solid ground behind them.
Of course training him to back out straight is probably the best in the long term, but if you can remove the divider and let him turn and unload going forward it will increase his confidence in the trailer.

I had a big Arab gelding that scrambled terribly when loaded in a two horse straight load.

When I trailered him alone I would remove the divider and he would stand diagonally and ride calmly. He was just better balanced that way. I think before I got him somebody trailered him and didn't slow enough at corners so he became anxious about falling.

I'm afraid I can't watch any of your videos because our data is used up for the rest of our billing cycle so maybe I've missed something and am being redundant.

It has no center divider and he doesn't, not any more, have an issue getting on, turning or moving about once on it.
He now does real well backing out of it, too. Day before, the last time I asked him to back out, I didn't use food and he did it all on his own.

ducks4you · Jan 5, 2016

http://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Ander...sr=1-1&keywords=clinton+anderson+horsemanship

secuono · Jan 5, 2016

ducks4you said:
http://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Ander...sr=1-1&keywords=clinton+anderson+horsemanship

I am not a fan of him.

secuono · Jan 5, 2016

Instructor took some pictures for me. Mare's a goofball, so we're always giggling and such. They both make lessons fun.
2 days and he's leaving! I'm already missing him! lol

ducks4you · Jan 7, 2016

Maybe you would prefer:
http://www.reisranch.com/
HOWever, CA's book is a lot cheaper, and would give you good exercises to train to the trailer.
http://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Ander...sr=1-1&keywords=clinton+anderson+horsemanship
It took a LOT of watching his programs and watching him work his OWN horses to realize that the drama you see when he is retraining messed up horses isn't the same as he trains from scratch. I've owned/trained horses for 30 years and I take anybody with a grain of salt until I study them.

secuono · Jan 7, 2016

ducks4you said:
Maybe you would prefer:
http://www.reisranch.com/
HOWever, CA's book is a lot cheaper, and would give you good exercises to train to the trailer.
http://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Ander...sr=1-1&keywords=clinton+anderson+horsemanship
It took a LOT of watching his programs and watching him work his OWN horses to realize that the drama you see when he is retraining messed up horses isn't the same as he trains from scratch. I've owned/trained horses for 30 years and I take anybody with a grain of salt until I study them.

I do not need help with trailer training my horse.

secuono · Jan 7, 2016

He was a little floppy in the trailer at first, but figured it out.
He unloaded ok, bit looky lou and shoving the trainer, but once he got down the length of the truck and trailer, he remembered his manners and did great. Went into the dark barn and stall ok.

He scrubbed that feed bucket spanking clean from the feed scent that was left in there, lol.
Have a video of him in the stall, too, he's so short you can hardly see him over the wall!

Snazzy in hot pink.

Video at the end, she laughed with me about his height some more after the video cut out. They have 2 others in, one is quite tall and you can nearly see all of him over the wall, lol.