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| Ocean of Nuance... |
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| carol grosvenor... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:13 pm |
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On Oct 31, 4:13 pm, Ocean of Nuance <lizRMOVzardwo... at (no spam) nc.rr.com>
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Quote: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.00...
Just started scanning the beginning of this, but it looks like a study
in the obvious to me. It's been a well-known fact for years that race
horses have a lot of psychological issues if / when they are kept on
the track, in box stalls, and trained daily. Tha'ts why the smart
trainers take them back home and let them live as horses in a herd,
when and if they can. That's why you see the use of companion animals.
Anytime horses are confined to the extent they are talking about, you
see behavioral problems. When I first started riding, I saw some
really screwed up animals who did no work, but were confined 24 hours
a day to a stall because the owners never came to see them and the
barn did not turn them out. It was an awful boarding barn, but a good
experience in how not to keep horses. One horse was very stressed out,
cribbing, and pacing and colicing about once a month.
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| carol grosvenor... |
| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:13 pm |
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On Oct 31, 4:13 pm, Ocean of Nuance <lizRMOVzardwo... at (no spam) nc.rr.com>
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Quote: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.00...
As I read more, it seems to say that part of it seems to be
confinement. I will also say that I'm now on my 5th personal horse,
and I'm training her very differently from the others. She went to a
trainer for a month, where she lived in a little outdoor stall, but
had no turnout. She was worked for about an hour or so a day, but
otherwise, stayed in the pen. He said she cried almost all the time--
calling out to the other horses, etc, even when she had a couple of
horses in the pens beside her. But, at home, she's out with the other
mares, and rarely cries. I then took her to the trails as soon as I
could, so most of her training is on trails. I do a little bit of
arena riding. She's done extremely well on trails. Gives me basically
no trouble at all, but is more upset in an arena. So, after this
experience, I think it has me thinking that this is probably the
better way to train a horse, although it was rather unnerving to begin
with, as she was extremely green when we started doing this. Since
May, she's already been around dogs, fires, other horses, generators,
won an intro endurance race, ridden in large groups, been in water,
mud, up and down mountains, gone to New Mexico for 9 days, and been
camping several times. All this is now much easier than a circle in
the arena, believe it or not! She has time to learn to be better in
the arena, and she does get better each time, but it's nice to have a
horse that isn't afraid of everything-- something you don't see a lot
with arena-trained horses. She also seems happy with the work. Maybe
if these people would confine their horses less and not try to control
everything, they'd have a better horse. Putting a horse into a frame
when it is very young, is in my opinion, counter-productive. That
should be done ever so slowly. Last weekend, a friend with a very nice
3rd level dressage horse, came trail riding with us on a camp out. He
had a lot of trouble on the trail with this horse. It was actually
quite dangerous on the steep slopes. I don't know if the horse would
have been better off if he'd had extensive trail training as a young
horse, but it is something to think about...
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