Every summer I end end up with a night-MARE... a poor young rage against the machine 6 yr old who battles with her hormones like you've never seen before. However to cut a long story short we have found a solution for our problem regarding not leaving the yard when we want to hack out. I have a wip-wop and I am the biggest fan of them, I carry it with me all the time but when we are in full nightmare mode we bronc in the face of the wip-wop. Many of you are probably thinking 'but she's missing an important part here!' Which I could have kicked myself over. Yesterday blinkers on! Well genuinely so gobsmacked at the instanteous change... we matched out the drive with ears forward. Hacking yesterday with a friend we had a great time and no napping so hope people don't mind me sharing a little success story using MR's important lessons!
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Horse Behavior and Training
Another win for Monty and his methods-napping!
JoHewittVINTA
Hi Becky. I'm so pleased you've found a way to enhance your mares hacking out experience. However, please remember Monty uses blinkers in the short term. Blinkers are a training tool not the solution. I have a number of suggestions. Be very generous with rubbing your mare, enthusiastically praise her every time she copes when the likelihood is that before she would have had a problem. Try & hack out with calm horses that your mare likes. Use the blinkers for a month. Ride in company but you need to be focused on her. Once you've established a good, solid routine of calm cooperation, over a month, go for a hack & on the way home remove the blinkers - ensuring that you & your company stay really super calm throughout. Pick the location & route with care to give the best possible, but possibly not perfect, outcome. Assuming your mare shows a better attitude on that first short blinkerless ride, 2 or 3 minutes, continue to extend the blinkerless time gradually until your mare is reliable without them. Be prepared for setbacks. They always happen in training! Just follow Montys advice. Take a deep breath, take the horse back to their 'place of comfort' in the training, calmly & start to rebuild. Once your mare understands it'll happen very quickly. Good luck. Cheers, Jo.
Becky C
Dont worry I don't intend to use them forever just to help us through the hormonal time which usually comes to and end mid September or so.
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