Posts Tagged ‘ trailer loading ’

The Worming Adventure Continues

Jan 27th, 2010 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Horse Training

I wrote recently about our success worming 40 of the 41 rescue horses in a single day. The final mare, Daisy, refused the flavored wormer that we had mixed in with some tasty senior feed. Smart girl! She knew that something was amiss. So, Dawn and I returned to the other property last Friday with [...]



Shimmer Practices Trailer Loading (video)

Nov 19th, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Horse Training, Youtube Videos

This is Shimmer’s second day practicing walking into the trailer. Trailer loading can be very frightening to a horse and many people have lots of trouble and training problems trying to get their horse to load into a trailer. With clicker training, trailer loading is a piece of cake! To read more about teaching Shimmer [...]



Shimmer Learns to Trailer Load

Nov 18th, 2009 | By Mary Hunter | Category: Horse Training

A trailer is a small, dark, metal box on wheels. For a prey animal like a horse, walking into the mouth of this monster sounds like a pretty scary idea! Shimmer, our little buckskin filly has found a foster home. So, it was high time for her to learn to walk into a trailer! She [...]