Friday, May 14, 2010
horse friends, I need help!
As you know I'm the proud owner of a beautiful red dun mare.... she's awesome, I fall in love more every time I'm with her! My 1st problem is that she still has no name! She's a Zippo Pine Bars mare.... but other than that the past breeders haven't been very creative with naming their horses. This mare has the cutest ears.. I haven't spent a lot of time with duns, I've seen a lot of them but I guess just never paid much attention. She has markings that I thought were mainly grulla markings... the stripes on her legs, and her ears!!!! They are golden on the top half and then her body color on the bottom half, so cute! And the 2nd problem!!! She is freshly trimmed, ears, bridle path... I'm guessing maybe she was twitched to get the clippers up there cause she really doesn't like me messing with her ears. I've spent plenty of time with horses so getting her used to me playing with her head isn't the issue, the issue is she's soooo tall! It's getting tough to get a bridle on her cause she can hold her head up so high... any advice on how to break this issue? Any advice on names? I was thinking "Lexi" but I'm not set on it yet....
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Duns and grullas share similar coat qualities. the line down their backs and the zebra stripes on their legs are both something a true dun should have. Remember that horses move away from pressure, so I'd work on getting her to put her head down for you, when you put your hand on her neck. Maybe I can blog this or take a video for you this week to show you what I mean. Don't focus on getting her bridled, focus on getting her ready to bridle. I'd call her Lucy. But then I have a mare named Lucy and I think it's a great name!
Hahaha, when I was reading this post I was thinking Lucy too, that is way too funny! I also agree you need to train her to lower her head to poll pressure, I start with just the halter and lead rope with gentle downward pressure and then release to reward when she drops her head slightly. Eventually you will get bigger drops and then you can start training her to keep her head low all the time. Hope this helps :)
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