Essential Horsemanship

Essential Horsemanship

Don't neglect the basics! Learn how we handle horses day to day, from haltering and leading to leg handling and washing, this series will cover everything you need for every day handling and care of your horse, plus everyday horsemanship techniques.

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Essential Horsemanship
  • HOW TO TIE A ROPE HALTER

    Learn how to correctly tie and fit a rope halter, along with some common mistakes.

  • HOW TO HALTER YOUR HORSE

    How to halter and unhalter your horse and keep the connection!

  • HOW TO TEACH YOUR HORSE TO LOWER THEIR HEAD CARRIAGE

    Mia and high headed Friesian Thorsten show you how to teach your horse to lower their head carriage. An important tool to utilise for safety and teaching your horse how to consciously relax.

  • SLIP AND GRIP

    Slip and Grip is a technique we use when we have a horse that might spook and bolt or pull on the line at speed. Instead of immediately gripping our rope, and accidentally pulling our horses on top of us, we use this technique to let the rope SLIP through our hands, and then GRIP once we get to t...

  • HANDLING LONG ROPES

    Here's some safety tips when using long ropes, especially with young horses.

  • LEADING YOUR HORSE FOR LIBERTY

    Here's why we lead our horse's with a "smile" in the rope when we are working towards liberty.

  • INSIDE THE FEED ROOM

    Here's what Mia feeds the team to ensure they all stay in top form for their work.

  • THE IMPORTANCE OF WARMING UP

    Before we start any work with our horses, it is important to ensure they are properly warmed up in walk first.

  • SHARING SPACE IN THE STABLE - BOUNDARIES

    Training horse Zeppy has his first official session at HoH HQ. Mia goers over how to put in a block or barrier into the space to establish boundaries, whilst not offending the horse.

  • SHARING SPACE IN THE STABLE - THRESHOLDS

    Mia demonstrates and talks about thresholds in training and what to do when you approach one.

  • SHARING SPACE IN THE STABLE - LEG HANDLING

    Mia demonstrates how to safely begin leg handling in the stable with Zeppy and further discovers where he struggles to share space with humans, leading to over arousal behaviours.

    This video covers:
    - leg handling positions and flexion for safety
    - discussion on horses natural play drive when pi...

  • SHARING SPACE IN THE STABLE - OVER AROUSAL

    Mia shares what she does when horses "drop out" during handling or training because of over arousal.

    In Zeppy's case he finds touch extremely stimulating, and has even reared and jumped on top of humans before! This is very different from a relaxed dropping out that you might see whilst groomin...