Fencing for Livestock (Farm, Barn & Stable)

Foal Training Explained: The First Two Years
Mare owners, if you'd like to get your colt or filly started out with a proper foundation, I would suggest the investment of $5.99 in my foal-training course.

 

- Download and print from your home computer
- 5 days, 5 chapters
- Learn at your own pace

 

Or, maybe when you turned him loose he quickly settled down and just sort of meandered about.... Yeah? Did he drop his head, sigh, nibble grass and altogether look bored by his situation? Did he wander over to you and sniff, maybe make a chewing sound? Or mouth your lunge whip? Excellent. All good signs. That’s the way you want your horse to look while you're working with him. Not actually bored, of course, but content. (If at this stage your horse is still a nervous wreck when you turn him out, go back and repeat the work set out in Day One, the part where you desensitized the horse to your "nearness" in the round pen. You haven't quite nailed that.)

When you firmly grasp that you need to be cognizant of your horse's "tenseness," you're ready to check that off your list and move on.