LRTC Wild Horse Mentors'
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A nice buckskin
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Learning the Ropes
The weanlings in particular needed a light touch to get used to being touches with objects without stressing them out. Participants often used strings hanging from bamboo poles to get the youngsters used to such contact. Pretty soon it was just "regular stuff" to these young horses. |
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| Another drill that worked well, once a horse was used to being touched with the pole, was to get the youngster call, put him (or her) between two participants, and lightly work the rope across the youngster's back, first by sawing then eventually swinging the rope like a jump rope. |
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More work with the blind mare - learning to pick up feet.
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| Cougars, bears and wolves can take down mature wild horses, but as a practical matter only the cougar is present where wild horses range and only a few out of hundreds of herds are subject to predation by cougars. |
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