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<blockquote data-quote="chippie" data-source="post: 1014586" data-attributes="member: 5644"><p>Two weeks may be little too soon to expect him to trust you. We have had a couple of young horses (weanling & yearling) that came without knowing people. One was a weanling out of a rodeo stock friends bucking stock and the other was a mustang that our daughter had a mustang yearling for Mission 007.</p><p></p><p>If you can, keep him in a stall. Don't try to touch him, just feed, water and pick the stall clean. You need to get his curiosity up about you. Start standing near his feed tub and stand next to him while he is eating. Then when he is calm about you standing there, start touching him on his shoulder. When he gets used to that, start brushing him. Do not try to touch his face. That is very scary and threatening to a young horse. If he won't let you get close enough to touch, you can start getting him used to being touched with a sorting stick. This is an album about the mustang. It shows Dot gentling and training the filly. She had a timeline to get the filly gentle and broke to show in hand at the Makeover. It was the first year for the Youth Yearling Edition. The album was done as part of the Makeover. It was pretty cool. Sonnet had a lot of followers. I remember sitting at the stalls during the Makeover. People were walking in the barns looking at the horses and when they reached Sonnet's stall, they would say, "Here's Sonnet!!!" She had a fan club. It was a really good experience for Dot.</p><p>I hope the album helps. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://smu.gs/10uoXQD" target="_blank">http://smu.gs/10uoXQD</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chippie, post: 1014586, member: 5644"] Two weeks may be little too soon to expect him to trust you. We have had a couple of young horses (weanling & yearling) that came without knowing people. One was a weanling out of a rodeo stock friends bucking stock and the other was a mustang that our daughter had a mustang yearling for Mission 007. If you can, keep him in a stall. Don't try to touch him, just feed, water and pick the stall clean. You need to get his curiosity up about you. Start standing near his feed tub and stand next to him while he is eating. Then when he is calm about you standing there, start touching him on his shoulder. When he gets used to that, start brushing him. Do not try to touch his face. That is very scary and threatening to a young horse. If he won't let you get close enough to touch, you can start getting him used to being touched with a sorting stick. This is an album about the mustang. It shows Dot gentling and training the filly. She had a timeline to get the filly gentle and broke to show in hand at the Makeover. It was the first year for the Youth Yearling Edition. The album was done as part of the Makeover. It was pretty cool. Sonnet had a lot of followers. I remember sitting at the stalls during the Makeover. People were walking in the barns looking at the horses and when they reached Sonnet's stall, they would say, "Here's Sonnet!!!" She had a fan club. It was a really good experience for Dot. I hope the album helps. [url]http://smu.gs/10uoXQD[/url] [/QUOTE]
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