How to training your horse
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 – Tips on Buying a Horse
Chapter 3 – Mistakes Horse Owners Make
Chapter 4 – Tips for Beginning Trainers
Chapter 5 – Secret to Training Your Horse
Chapter 6 – Training the Horse to Know Voice Commands
Chapter 7 – Get Your Horse to Obey and Look to You for
Instructions
Chapter 8 – Lead Training
Chapter 9 – Leading Your Horse to Get Control
Chapter 11 – Another Method of Loading a Horse in a
Trailer
Chapter 12 – Mistakes Horse Owners Often Make When
Loading Their Horse
Chapter 13 – Use Horse Training to Solve a Problem With
Your Horse
Chapter 1 – Introduction
If
you are reading this book, you are either looking to buy a horse or maybe you
have already acquired a horse. Either
way the will need to be trained. Whether
you do it yourself or hire a trainer to train the horse for you.
You
already know the cost of purchasing a horse can range from about $1000 to
$20,000. You may have estimated the cost
of feeding, shoeing, and health care to run you about $2,000 per year. That $2,000 per year is if you have property
in the country and will keep the horse with you. If you are planning on boarding your horse,
then you can expect an additional $2,000 to $3,000 per year.
Assuming
you are planning on riding your horse an average of 350 hours per year, you
will want to include in all those expenses the cost of your health insurance
and possible time off from work. Since
you are asking yourself, “Why?” I will
explain. There are thousands of people
each year that receive injuries from horseback riding. Twenty-five percent of those injuries happen
to children who are 16 years of age and younger. Many of the head injuries lead to brain
injury.
The
brain injuries can cause serious damages that have a lifelong effect. Unfortunately we are not talking about
injuries caused riding rodeos. The
majority of these mishaps occur during recreational riding. Eighty percent of the fatal accidents occur
at normal horse speeds and are not caused because the horse bucked or reared
up.
As
it turns out you are safer riding a motorcycle than you are on the back of a
horse. Researchers tell us that
motorcyclists average 7,000 hours of riding time per serious accident, while
horseback riders can expect an accident to happen for every 350 hours of riding
time.
The
best method of stopping injury accidents is education. A properly trained horse is less likely to
misbehave, and he will be a much safer animal to ride if he has been taught not
to behave in a way that will cause a serious injuries. These actions will include biting, kicking,
or running away with a rider. A
well-trained horse will be much more patient with the odd habits of the
untrained person.
Riding
on the back of an untrained horse is like driving a car that does not have any
brakes. You can take them out for a test
run, but you may come back dead. Even
thought the horse’s intentions are good, if he doesn’t have experience, you are
riding around with a creature that weighs over a thousand pounds and likes to
do whatever he wants. As an investment,
horses are more of a liability. The
horse has the potential of hurting someone and his resale value is next to
nothing.
If
you have an untrained horse, he can be dangerous. You probably didn’t buy him just to put him
out to pasture and get fat and lazy.
Just remember training your horse makes your horse more accessible to
you as well as being useful and safer to be around.
If
you don’t seem to have enough time to train a horse, you can hire a
trainer. Depending on the training the
horse needs, training can take anywhere from two months to a year to be
trained. The end results you will have a
horse that is well trained. However you
will still be untrained unless you are already an experienced rider and just
don’t have the time to train your own horse.
If you are not an experienced rider, you are not allowed to participate
in the training of your horse. This
means you will have to find training for yourself.
For
a whole lot less money than you will pay for a trainer, you can train a horse
on your own. You will both be learning
at the same time. Of course the horse
will not be rideable for a portion of that time, but you will learn some things
before you get on the back of that horse.
Here
are some tips for the novice horseback rider.
- If this is the first
time your have owned a horse, it would be a good idea to pay a
professional trainer to help you choose the right horse for you pay out the
money for a horse.
- You will always want
to supervise children when they are around horses. Make sure the children are not in the
line of fire should the horse decide to kick.
- If you have children,
you will want them to know all about horse safety.
- When you are looking
for a saddle to purchase, make sure to purchase a saddle that has release
catches to ensure a fallen rider will not be dragged by the horse because
of a foot caught in the stirrups.
- Make sure you invest
in an equestrian helmet that meets the ASTM standards.
- Do not allow a horse
to nibble or “kiss” you, not even a young horse. This can turn into biting and is very
hard to stop.
- Do not wear any loose
fitting clothes. It may catch on
tack, branches or fences.
- Never sneak up on a
horse from behind.
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