First full session with an unhandled Friesian Appaloosa stallion

This is day One of working with shadow, who it is basically unhandled.
This is our full session. with young horses, you really don't want to do very long. No, more than 20 minutes at a time. Just because you don't want to stress them, but you have to leave on a good note.You may not be able to touch them the first day. and in this case, it took a few more days to get that trust to be able to halter him.
This method is pressure and release as opposed to roping the horse or adding so much pressure that the horse is overly tired.

We need to be able to touch him and put a halter on him.As the first step in the process, and so the first thing that we are going to do is isolate him into a round pin, where he can be worked with away from the other horses.
It is extremely important when you have a young stallion. To establish your groundwork, basics as quickly as possible.And this will take some time.
It usually takes at least a full week of being in a round pen to get the halter on and off in a reasonable way. You don't want to just get the halter on and then leave it on.Because that can cause lasting damage to the horse.

The first exercise were really going to work on is getting him to move away from pressure and to stop and change direction when we step in front of his drive zone area.
The object of the game is for him to stop and allow us to approach and actually touch him.But you may not get this on the first or second day.You may have to work on this for quite some time.

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