Reading Horses

[TBigLug]

It’s too bad. Seems as though there’s been alot of miscommunication and short tempers here lately. Must be the cabin fever hitting everyone early this year. That’s the problem I have with the internet, it’s harder to get your point and current context across without talking to the person face to face. Maybe we all just need to be more clear with what we’re trying to say to avoid confusion.

[drafthossluvr]

amish broke horses will stand all day. most of them anyways, lol

[DraftDriver]

I have watched some set the lines down and walk away, the team stood there and went to sleep. However, with some, I know that they are in fear of moving from the harsh manner they were “trained”. Could I set the lines down and walk away from my team? Probably not.

And yes, other teams are worked all day, they are given breaks and they learn that when they stop and rest they had best do just that while I think others look to those small breaks and learn to relax and stay quiet. I am still learning and watching, seeing what works, what doesn’t work and what I will never do to my own.

To each his own. My humble opinion that works for me personally is that the more I work Trixi and Smoke, the better they get for me. I know Smoke inside and out, what makes her tick, what spooks her or when she is apprehensive. Trixi I am still learning the little things and her own personality but they are more responsive to me and when I have let others ground drive them, it hit me then that when they were given a command, same tension I would have on the lines, they didn’t move. I had to issue the command before they did anything. So I think that a team of horses becomes tuned to that driver…and it is a nice feeling.

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