Self loading on the first try! Wow! That really speaks for the preparation!

You can just see the slight amount of tension leaving Chance's body about 6:34 as Warwick comes up to tell him he was a good boy! He just needed that bit of assurance that everything was alright. Loved it.

Love he sort of took you by surprise when he decided to just get in the by himself…I love your calm patient approach ...what a good boy didn’t panic

@jillwakefield3831

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!. I really don't understand!. Again my little pony. He's not perfect but sometimes he amazes me. I got him when he was two and just spent time with him in the field, (he lives out all the time). Used to bring him into the yard and just handled him. Never thought about trailer training. In the UK trailers have ramps. One day my friend was getting ready to go on a fun ride, trailer ready in the yard with ramp down. Didn't have my boy tied up and next thing I knew he loaded himself!!. Trouble is now, when we go anywhere and people have their ramps down he'll try to get on!!!. Makes people laugh but a bit awkward trying to stop him!!!.

The shadow confused Chance. Thank you for helping me understand that my little guy didn't understand how to pick up his feet, who would think a horse would have this issue but they do.

I love your training. Really great working with these yearlings and you're so patient!

Could you do a series on training a mustang or a unhandled horse? I'd love to see how and what methods you'd use now. Step by step. As a lot of your training methods have changed I'd like to see which ones you use today and which ones you no longer use.

Agreed, bad loading,and then bad driving! Separation anxiety...so many factors. Horses also not very well trained or trusting... It is a big people problem!

Fabulous. I love the preparation, the patience and especially the kindness that means Chance's first memories are positive ones. So wonderful!

Yes, and as you explayned earlier: very often people are only focussing on the getting-on-the-Trailer, not noticing the worry of the horse about getting off. Because I often see horses eventually developing loading issues - they don‘t walk on the Trailer because they are worried stepping off it. Does that make sense? Liebe Grüße aus Buxtehude/Germany

@redstoneranger1404

4 жыл бұрын

Makes perfect sense to me. For every step the horse goes into the trailer, show him how to get off from there. Liebe Grüße :)

Since I have been spending my 'coffee time' with my horse, he has been much easier to direct. He now follows hand signals on the ground (I very rarely have him on a lead rope in the coral). I used satsuma oranges as the treat when I trailer trained him - he ADORES them... you should see the drooling!🤣 I love that you are kind and patient with them. Such a great example.

Oh my gosh, what a cutie he is. ❤️

What an excellent example of setting a horse up to succeed . Once again giving the horse a chance to figure it out for himself with some gentle guidance from his leader. This approach is so much better than the old school way of showing the horse who is boss and forcing compliance. I will always choose cooperation and participation over imposed compliance. This might be why I never have to catch my horses, they see a rope or a halter and always just drop their heads into it.

I love Dr Steven Porges' work. The feeling of safety doesn't come from the absence of threat but from the presence of connection.

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a Steven Porges quote ?

@crazycuteanimals6791

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarwickSchiller It is actually from Gabor Mate, you might enjoy his work too

So great showing patience and understanding. I wish everyone working with horses did.

Cool.I like your approach of no pressure and the application of thinking horsemanship meaning using your brain to set him up for success.

I love how patient you are with him!

Very nice video :-)

"Alright this is gonna be a tough one, getting a horse on the trailer" **horse just casually walks up on his own accord**

Amazing.. A little patience and a little compassion does wonders.

Thanks so much for your kindness and humane approach to all things relating to the horses... love watching your videos! So educational and helpful!

Thanks for sharing you are a wonderful example of what I always know but don't have the trust to follow. Because you share it I trust my own way now. I have a foal of almost 1 year too and love to build this connection and it worked so well.

I noticed he did not defecate (sometimes a sign of stress) before entering or while he was in the trailer. That to me indicate a level of comfort that is unusual with early trailer training. SUPER!!!

Great!!!

So sweet! Yaaaay both of you.

Brilliant!

Confidence in the leader with empathy

Love, love, love!!

Ha ha, cool horse perfect preparation, I love it :-)

My mare has a problem with loading only in nature. Sometimes she wants just stay a little longer and I have to persuade her, that it is time to go home... 😀

This is how first experience for my yearling went but then the second time she refused. What do you do? I think curiosity helps with success the first time. What happens when you get them in and shut divider? So many levels of things. Bumping their legs going in and smacking head all can accidentally happen. Now they have pain. Hard to reassure them after that

For a horse not used to being transported by trailer, and living in a field/pasture, what do you think of leaving the trailer in the field for the horse to get use to it, sniff it out and investigate? At first the trailer could be left closed and by a fence so its not in the way. Perhaps a progression days or a week later would be to open the trailer and let the horse investigate a little more with me present? Could also be a possibility of the horse having a bad experience with the trailer without me knowing, further complicating matters when I do eventually go to trailer her. Looking at a 7yr old brooding mare who has previously not had much contact from her last owner, and has taken her time to get to know me so far. Being moved next month. Would be interested to hear what the community thinks. Thanks in advance.

Horses have a sonar system in the dark. They snore and the sound helps them to orientate.

It's not about the trailer. It's whether or not the horse is almost and trusts the handler enough to feel safe enough to do what is asked. Remember for most horses the trailer is like a big cave and they are naturally claustrophobic.

Can you show a float lodging I guess I need the back up to be good 1st

How would you go about it with an unhandled horse? I am picking up a new 2yo that isnt even very halter broke and obviously havent had a chance to get that relationship built yet... I really want it to be a positive first experience!

How do you prepare to back out of the trailer?

I’m going to pick up a 1 1/2 year old next week. Any tips for the haul. It’s a 2 1/2 hour drive and I’d like it to be as less stressful as possible for the both of us.

My 7 yr old mare doesn't like my trailer, I've spent hours of patient practice with her, I have a two horse straight load, she finds it very claustrophobic. She'll hop in fine but will immediately try to back out quickly, so the trick is getting her to stay, backing out is the only way to get out and sometimes can scare her when she bumps the back rail. It almost seems like a habit now, she knows if she goes in the trailer she gets to come out right away, doesn't matter if I have treats in there or not. I'm kinda just not sure where to go with it now, some days she'll hop in and stay within the first few tries, other days it'll take a half hour before she's okay with staying still...

Hi

I have a 2 horse trailer straight load with ramp. My horse is comfortable getting on but get nervous when we close the bars. Any advise?

@Nimeariel

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe work on recreating those situations on the ground outside of the trailer? That's what I took away from this video, anyway. Enclosed spaces, pressure from behind/side (butt bar or the dividers), etc. I know a mare who gets nervous being in the trailer but getting on..... not too much of a problem. We are working with her from the trailer, but might start incorporating more away-from-the-trailer scenarios now, too. Maybe load him and do like normal but when he gets nervous initially, stop the loading process til he relaxes again. Then resume from where you left off. And then stop again when he's nervous. And then over and over til you can keep him relaxed through the whole process. If he's nervous while you're driving, maybe just drive around your farm, stopping (carefully) at intervals so he can relax while on the move. Then move to longer and longer stretches of driving til you can drive down the road to your destination safely without worrying. If he gets nervous earlier and earlier, though, take him off the trailer and start again.

So what do we do for horses who've had terrible loading experiences? I have a kill pen rescue who had a hell of a time getting from TX to WA with an abusive hauler (didn't know he was so abused until AFTER the 10-day hauling experience). It's been a full year, and my gelding doesn't want to get on the trailer. Hard to blame him after the hellish trailering from a year ago. I've tried the natural horsemanship methods of trying to equate the trailer with rest, but tips and advice would be great.

@WarwickSchiller

3 жыл бұрын

I would make sure that they are very confident in you judgement in all matters that arent trailer related first. This takes some time, but its not really about the trailer.

At point of float training do any proportion of horses object/go nuts once they realise they're boxed in? I.e. claustrophobia.

@WarwickSchiller

3 жыл бұрын

They could if you rushed it, but not usually

Just curious, how would you get Chance out if he had to back out of the trailer? Some trailers do not offer the turn around option.

@Nimeariel

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe practice backing up off a small ledge outside of the trailer and then gradually increase the depth? If you don't have one, maybe set one up somehow. I knew a few horses in my lifetime that you could back them up and if you told them "step" right when their feet touched the edge of the trailer, they would cautiously and calmly take a step backward searching for the ground. I don't know if it did much good for some of them (if they cared or not), but I like to think that our alerting the horses to the edge with "step" prepared them to know they shouldn't panic. Maybe you could incorporate the word "step" when you ask them to back up on the ground as their back feet move backwards so all you have to do is say "step" without using a lead rope, then incorporate it on the ledge just as their feet touch the edge?

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

Id work on backing on something small outside of the trailer (like I did with the stepping down), and then Id back the tariler up to a small back, so that his first unloading would just be a small step.

When do you start backing him off? My yearling does all of this without any issue but I haven’t backed him off yet. He turns around and comes out.

@WarwickSchiller

4 жыл бұрын

I'll prepare him for that first before I do that, and probably have the trailer backed up to a small bank so the step down is smaller.

turns out the horse owners i use to know where total control freaks. constant pressure and abuse. i got the same treatment after i tried to understand the horse. too bad i can not see her anymore. she was a beautiful bronze brown with grey hair and funny ears.