Posted 2009-07-21 2:16 PM (#108301) Subject: Kicking horse in trailer
New User
Posts: 4
Location: Olathe KS
Does anyone have any ideas to curtail a kicking behavior in the horse trailer? I am currently using bilaterl kicking straps, ace tranquilizer, straw banked on the trailer wall? I have tried hauling with his buddy but does not make a difference. The gelding (6yr) has been hauled in a semi- trailer, slant load and currently in a stock trailer. All the trailers have been plenty big enough for him. I also plan to get some horse earplugs-but not found a source to purhase them. HELP!! terri
Posted 2009-07-21 3:18 PM (#108305 - in reply to #108301) Subject: RE: Kicking horse in trailer
Regular
Posts: 99 Location: New Mexico
I went to a Chris Cox workshop and the trailer loading section made lots of sense. Make the horse work outside the trailer then load and let him rest in side the trailer. Don't load and go. Once the kicking starts, unload, work him again outside the trailer, load and rest. It could take a lot of repeats of doing this but he will start associating stand in the trailer and nobody bothers me. When he start kicking have him get out and work again. Good luck. Oh here is a link for earplugs. Lots of cowboy mounted shooters use these. http://www.americancowboysupply.com/Cowboy_Mounted_Shooting.htm
Posted 2009-07-22 12:32 PM (#108380 - in reply to #108301) Subject: RE: Kicking horse in trailer
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Posts: 1205 Location: Danielsville Georgia
I rode a ways with one.Had me a crop.He'd kick.I'd swat.Maybe a dog shock collar with a hand held controller and adjustable settings.Just be careful on the settings.I used one on one of my stallions that would charge in his run and bite the posts,bloody his lips and such. Fixed him right up from my deck and watching him.That was several years ago and he still doesn't bite on those post tops.I'd rather use that then drugs.
Posted 2009-07-22 11:01 PM (#108417 - in reply to #108301) Subject: RE: Kicking horse in trailer
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Posts: 1205 Location: Danielsville Georgia
I had to add haystring to make it large enough to fit.It just nested down on his neck.Not tight,just there.In fact with his head level or down it would not get him.But his head was not down of course when standing or charging through his paddock.He couldn't figure out what hit him.Stopped him dead in his tracks with this puzzed look.The secomnd time he charged in and I hit the button he did a mini Spanish walk.Would have loved to video it.His reaction wasn't but a few seconds.Mine has a buttons from 1 to 10 with 10 being a big shock.I tried the lower ones when he would charge or bite the post but no reaction.It took eaither a 8 or 9 to get his attention.I have a paddock about 100 feet from his run.Some geldings he tolerates and dosen't pay them mine.Others he hates and it shows.He'd charge through his stall,into his paddock and hit the corner post and bite the top of it.Over and over.The Fideo collar cured that in three or four hits.I bought the shock collar because my darn dog barks and barks from HIS run when I work horses in the round pen.Drives ME up a wall.I can just put it n him(dog) and he stays shut up while wearing it.Horse isn't as smart.He did not connect that the collar was the cause of the discomfort.
Kicking horse in trailer
