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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
An excerpt from "Your Foal: Essential Training for the Young Horse":
Throughout this course I'll be careful to call out certain elements that I believe to be super-important for you to understand, practice or simply remember. Here's our first: If you've got two babies in a pen, one can be easy to train, the other can be a nightmare. Or, both easy or both difficult. It's the luck of nature's draw. If you fly through this training, be careful to keep your ego in check because your next filly can be the devil's spawn. Conversely, if your baby "doesn't seem to get it," take heed: I was speaking once to a mother of four who I believed (and still do) to be one of the all-time great (human) moms. She said that when her first two kids were born they were little angels and that for several years she walked around saying to herself "This mothering thing is easy. What's with all the brats?" Then she had two more kids, each a pill and a challenge – and she learned quickly that mothering is relative, literally. I tell you this because I've already walked a mile in the shoes you'll be walking in. I've been there and I know what it feels like to spend a fortune having a horse created, to have waited a year for it to be born, to brag to everybody about the great genes... only to have it exasperate me as I work to get it to lift a leg, to thoroughly embarrass me in front of the vet or to have it give me a look like "You can't make me. I hate you." Be patient when things don't go your way, smile and remind yourself there's plenty of time. They're just kids.
Other available courses include:
Stop Bucking (reviews)
Round Pen: First Steps (reviews)
Rein In Your Horse's Speed (For Owners of Nervous or Bolting Horses) (reviews)
Trailer Training (read the reviews)