Horse Behavior

Horse Training and Behavior
You need to understand both

Horse Behavior when horse training is important!

Animal behavior training starts with
understanding how they think.

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Horses are herd animals that follow a leader.

They express themselves through
body language, eye contact, ear position and noises.

In a herd, horses develop a pecking order,
the dominant horse
cares
senses danger
and finds food and water
for the herd.

In many ways the human has taken over this role.

A horse that respects the human
as a "herd member" and has formed a bond of trust
will be a much easier horse to handle.


Horse instincts:

1.fear

2.nervous

3.anger

4.happy

5.alert

6.listening

7.hurting

8.naughty


All these emotions and instincts of a horse
are shown by a horses body language and noises they may make.

By recognizing and understanding these,
communicating with a horse becomes easier.

Horses read our body language too.

When dealing with any problem
it is important to have their
respect and trust
and to see you as a leader.
Then animal behavior modification becomes easy.


Here are a list of behavioral problems:

1.rearing

2.bucking

3.loading

4.biting

5.barging


Before beginning to solve a behavioral problem
you must first try to find out the reason behind it.
Watch the horses body language and try to understand
how it is communicating with you……Is it
angry, scared, naughty, nervous etc

Only then when you have a better understanding of the situation can you begin dealing with the behavioral problem.





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