hello and welcome to the next video in manzer's journey in today's video I'm going to
be introducing Manzer to a halter I have never to this point had a halter
on him or anything around him that would be any kind of a restraint even a lead
rope there's never been anything on him so today is going to be my first
introduction to doing that if you're new here my name is brandi and this channel
is all about horses in my journey with horsemanship now if you have not been
following Mansour's journey I highly recommend going back and watching the
rest of his videos just so you kind of know what's going on with him today is
January 19th and I can't even remember it right now will the last time I
brushed him so this will be a good a good introduction so far is just to kind
of go over him with a brush because I know he really loves that he's just
finishing up his grain so this probably feels a little funny to him
because I've never taken a metal curry to ice chunks on him before he's
standing here with just foot rested
I love that he's so expressive
so the things that I have in here with me today well for when I'm using a metal
curry I have a basic leader of without a snack or anything on it and then I have
a halter with a lead rope attached so those are the things I have I don't want
to use any hardware I don't like using anything with with any metal on it
because it can bump on and it can also it can also break so I prefer not to use
her ger okay turn his leg oh you silly boy
oh he's got hair missing all over his jowls here from a bear chewing on those
boys go at each other's faces all day long he's got hair missing all over okay
so I'm going to start and just kind of rub in with this
we just have it around his neck so I can pull him first me : force me
he gives me I'm gonna release no let me go back over to his food
and apply a little pressure and I'm going to release when he gives in my
direction I want them to learn to follow a feel so I'm not a big fan of them I
didn't want to do the whole like rope around his butt thing because I wanted
him from day one to understand follow the field so if there's pressure I want
him to find a way to get rid of that pressure
same thing
and there's no pressure there when he's coming with me listen I'll put a little
pressure on when I need a little hub rope around his neck he's never ever
ever had a rope around his neck I had a I waited one time to deworm him a couple
times and so he's had the wait tape around his belly but that's the only
time he's ever felt pressure beside with my body you know holding him or
something so I'm gonna do the same thing this direction by some pressure he gives
in my direction he gets a release
Oh
I just want this to move around on the lot so he gets used to this being here
then a line that there's food here is a distraction because it's okay for him to
keep going back to it
now I'm just gonna switch I'm gonna ask him to move his hip over let him take a
little bite and then we're gonna do another circle nothing too exciting
okay here comes the pressure again
naturally all right I can feel it you see how he kind of pivots his hind leg
he keeps his hind feet still and pivots with him a little more where the other
direction he turned and came with me he doesn't
move as many orders over is good this way as he did the other way but when he
was born he was also very bent he was very bent to the left the sea
moves the front end instead of the high net he just doesn't Bend as good that
way rope is gonna come off so I'm gonna show you what I'm going to do to get him
moving his hindquarters around a little bit more this actually isn't too bad
size-wise so he's gonna probably be like um what is this on my face
Hey first time with a halter arm pretty big
deal I'm just gonna add a little bit of pressure and I want him to give to that
if he tries to pull against me I will not let go I will simply Bend him
and now when he starts moving his hindquarters around more he won't put me
in such a pickle right there and I'm going to show you how I'm gonna do that
I'm gonna walk over here and this is gonna touch the butt and it's gonna help
him want to move his hindquarters yeah
now I'm just gonna let him go back over here and now I'm not pulling them
forward at all I'm doing everything to the side hold here soon as the
hindquarters move I leave him be he's like what is this thing on my head he's
not really sure how to get into his brain bucket but he'll figure this out
now I don't want to leave a halter on him by any means and especially a rope
halter you never ever ever leave them on in a stall or in their pasture they are
not meant to break and they won't so if your worst gets caught on something with
real palter on they could really be in trouble I personally don't like to put
any kind I don't like to leave halters on in installs or a pasture anyway even
once I do break because I think they learn bad habits from if they do break
they learn how to pull back from that okay so now this is gonna go this rope
is gonna go over him and now I'm going to introduce the pressure to the other
side
see that side is so easy for him but he's naturally bent to the left every
course has through either bent to the right or to the left and he has bent to
the left because that's how he was in his mama's womb and he came out pretty
crooked because he was windswept right there I hold until he figures out to
move his front quarters this way he'll figure this out and I'm kind of in a
position where I can't they're good I released that I can't get behind him to
roll in my quarters a little hard to try to find him this way
bucket okay and I give it release every time he gives now I'm gonna send this
over is my quarters this way again and now that can feel a little funny because
he's got really over
get on this side he's gonna figure up and he's gonna move his butt over there
right here I'm just asking this trying man
step or
hey hey don't let him just pivoting on his friend
I'm sorry out its brain feet I want everything to move
now I'm gonna step this way
I always want to do the lateral work before I do the forward work I don't
want to pull him forward yet so there we go yet this is a this is something to do
with every horse right here I bring it the roll forwards but and I turn them
like this and I get the hind end to step over and though every single per se were
quick newbies price for many of them are not okay with it
but it's really important to me that they get used to feeling that pressure
of the rope behind them it gets them used to a lot of things
from the first day that I'm leading this horse I want him to know to come forward
from a field so I want they're right there we felt that and moved forward to
it
well I think that was a great first halter training session for Mainzer and
I'm gonna quit right there because I don't want to do too much in one day so
I'll pick back up where we left off another day and I'll be sure to keep you
posted thanks so much for watching bye