Horse liberty training

You might think that the first steps to training a horse depend on the training style. But there are some lessons that every horse should learn.

Liberty training of horses

Here are three cute and easy tricks to teach your horse!

Here are some great ideas to do completely at liberty with your horse.

Teaching a horse to lay down is an extremely difficult trick that will require patience, practice, and a horse with the right temperament.

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Today, we're bringing you the new incarnation of the Aftercare Spotlight. Each month, we'll publish a column from a different person training an off-track

These are the 5 essential horse bonding exercises I've learned that have helped my horse and I relax together, connect with each other and have accelerated our training success.

When we first start making the switch over from traditional training, to a positive reinforcement focused training approach, we have to remember that most previously trained behaviors with R- will naturally fall apart when we stop using R-. We can rebuild them with R+ but to be able to do so requires learning a whole new set of skills for both human and horse; which takes a lot of time and patience. This makes it very hard, and sometimes completely impossible, to just "switch to R+" w

Trust building exercises to do with your horse that is all on the ground. Builds confidence and trust in horse and handler.