Developing Good Habits in Your Horse

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This is Randall Powell with Expert Village, and in this clip, we're going to talk about the do's and don'ts of having a horse. When you own a horse the most important thing is to not get the horse into get bad habits. One of the worst habits you can get is making a horse barn sour, which is when you take off running back to the barn, if you get comfortable enough when you're riding take off at a can or a fast run, just make sure you're not going to do it going back toward the barn because that's where the horse wants to be anyway. That's their release point. That's where they get the saddle. That's where they get fed and watered usually, so the horses already want to go to the barn. A main thing when riding horses or having horses; don't ever, ever run the horse back to the barn. Another thing you don't want to do is have the horse where he can just eat grain or cubes or sweet feed or pelleted feet. Any kind of feed that he's supposed to. Make sure he's not around it to where he can eat it until he founders. When they founder, a horse will just eat himself to death; it will kill them. Their stomachs can only hold so much. Unlike cattle, the horse will just have one stomach instead of 4. When they eat too much of a pellet or a grain or any kind of sweet feed. If they eat too much of it, it will founder them and it can kill him. That's definitely a do not do that with a horse. The main thing to do is establish dominants in horses. Make sure that they know that you're the boss. Make sure that they also know that you're their friend and that they're a companion with you. You got to have a companion with the horse also. Like I said, you want to keep a goat or a cow or any kind of companion at all with them, but let the horse know that you're his friend as well and ya have a long and happy relationship.

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