[Ag-eq] Question about Feet

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Making her move would be my suggestion too.

You might try circling her a few times or making her back.  Also as soon as she
holds her foot still praise and realease the foot.  This teaches her that
stillness is what you want.

My 1000 pound goof ball likes to lean against me when I pick up his feet!

Nella
Quoting Jody W Ianuzzi <jody at thewhitehats.com>:

> Clinton Anderson would make her move her feet until she got tired and decided
> it was better to stand still and have her hooves trimmed.
>
> JODY
> "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance!" Thomas Jefferson
>
> On Jul 28, 2013, at 10:35 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Michelle.
> > I don't know about horses, but I grind my dog's nails every Sunday.  He
> gets a kibble for lying down to have it done, and another for each foot as
> soon as I'm done with it.  He learned this very quickly, and is very good
> about it.
> > I suppose if you know clicker, you could click and treat, but I just treat.
> > I gather that some clicker users click for very small parts of the task,
> like click and treat for letting you pick up the foot, then again for
> whatever the next step is.
> > HTH.
> > Tracy
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle Creedy "
> <michelle.creedy at gmail.com>
> > To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:51 PM
> > Subject: [Ag-eq] Question about Feet
> >
> >
> >> Hello All
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have a question for you. What is your plan of action if you're cleaning
> >> out the horse's back hooves and they either try to kick out all the time
> or
> >> they move in such a way that they have to put the foot down? I've tried
> >> holding on to the foot, I've tried actually picking the foot up and
> >> releasing it before the horse tries anything and I've also tried holding
> the
> >> foot at different angles in case what I'm doing is bothering her. She is a
> >> mini and puts up a huge fight! Tonight I simply got help but really this
> is
> >> a task I can do just fine if she behaves. Heck, I've even tried a little
> >> bribery! She's fine with the front now. Any thoughts? I tie her to the
> >> hitching post while doing this but she's so tiny she can still get around.
> >> It's very important for me to clean out the feet because they've been
> having
> >> some issues with thrush due to our wet spring.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Also, do any of you know where I can access some books about training like
> >> in the round pen? Not bookshare because we don't have that here although
> >> I've been hearing rumblings about that. Even just titles would be good
> >> because I can get them scanned.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Michelle Creedy
> >>
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