Prof Jesse Beery
Prof Jesse Beery – Horses: Creatures of Habit
Part of the secret to horse training is understanding how horses think and why they react the way they do to the things in their environment.
Take, for instance, the great strength a horse has. If a horse was fully aware of its own strength and he could reason, then he wouldn’t be able to be controlled by a voice command or reins. The horse would always know he could over power the handler whenever he wanted.
[Be thankful the horse cannot reason! I’m guessing we’d be using a lot fewer horses if they could!]
Fortunately, that isn’t how a horse thinks. If he has been allowed to get away with things due to lack of proper training then he’ll know, for that situation, he has strength that can be used to over power you.
You see, a horse’s brain can be programmed and the horse can be controlled through a series of proper training techniques. For any given situation, the horse should provide a fixed response. Put the horse into that situation – such as the command WHOA, and the horse should know to stop. Right NOW! Not when he wants to or feels like it.
But take a horse who has been allowed to get away with something – like running back to the barn out of control as fence posts go whizzing by – and he’ll do it every time until you teach him otherwise. He can form bad habits just as easily as good habits.
The object of your training is teaching good habits.
You take one thing at a time so you don’t confuse your horse and work him on it until he gets is. It may take one or two times – it may take multiple times – but you don’t introduce him to something else until he gets it.
You are establishing, encouraging and rewarding good habits. If done properly, he’ll react the same way time, after time.
You may have inherited bad habits when you bought a horse, you may have allowed a horse to form bad habits because you didn’t know any better or know how to fix it or, your horse may have had an accident and now has a negative reaction or habit to overcome. Whatever the reason – you need to understand that until you can teach him and coach him to do the RIGHT thing and enforce that with positive feedback and praise when he does, he’ll react the same way each time.
Each bad habit can be overcome. Specific techniques can be used to overcome each of the common bad habits horse owners normally face. Some are more difficult than others but all can be solved.
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Prof. Jesse Beery details ways to not only train a horse starting from a colt but to also fix a couple dozens of the most common problems. He was a master at and personally trained hundreds or horses. Through his books and School of Horsemanship, his methods have successfully trained thousands of horses.
Use these methods…they are still 100% accurate for today, even though they are 100 years old. Horse just haven’t changed or progressed in their thinking in that time!
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Stay safe and stay in control….
All the best with your training,
Charlie