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Hannah Weston schreef:Hi, lovely to have you here Pawing at buckets is a very normal behaviour and both Toby and India do it in my herd. They're very calm around food in general and specifically in training, but they just kick at buckets when they're eating. Since it's not a problem, I haven't addressed it However, I think you're saying that your horse does it when expecting a bucket, rather than when eating from it? Again, I'd assess the overall level of excitement to see if it really is a problem that you want to address. If you do, then I would train it this way:
I'd begin by desensitising buckets, so start to have empty buckets around. Present your horse with empty buckets, target empty buckets, ride around empty buckets etc. As your horse begins to see buckets in lots of situations and not just high-excitement feeding time, you should see general bucket excitement fade a little.
The next step would be to throw some treats into a bucket when your horse is standing quietly. Maybe you ask him to stand and stay next to an empty bucket and practice walking away and coming back (as per the foundation lesson 'stay'). You can reward him by throwing feed into the bucket or handfeeding, but again he's learning to wait by a bucket calmly and without pawing. If he does start pawing, ideally just wait until he stops for a moment, then mark and return - it sounds like you've been doing a bit of this already, so just build it up as you go further away, or around a corner etc.
Then, repeat the same exercise carrying an empty bucket, so you're getting him used to you appraoching him with a bucket in your hand, but he'lll still be getting rewarded from your hand or the bucket that he's standing by on the ground. With a little repeteition, your horse will learn to stand quietly as you leave and return carrying a bucket. Then, you can repeat with feed in it.
Those would be the steps I'd take to help change that behaviour. If he does it most when you're out of sight, then practice going behind a jump wing/standard or seomthing first whenre you can still see him and then build up to going out of sight. You can use a mirror or just listen out for when he's standing quietly and return at that moment. I think there's a bit of this training in the standing tied videos where I was working on training the horse to stand quietly while I went out of sight into the feedroom - it's in the daily handling course, go to Standing Tied and scroll down to the last video 'standing tied part 2': https://club.connectiontraining.com/mod ... ding-tied/
Slmt9 schreef:Nog niet geoefend met de emmers, wel kreeg ik als cadeautje schouderbinnenwaarts aangeboden aan de hand. Werk elke week aan ‘cross’, ‘over’ en daardoor konden we gaan wijken. En ik dacht, ik probeer eens of schouderbinnen wil. Met vlag en wimpel geslaagd dag twee ook feilloos. Super fijn’
Hoop t ook dat je de darmen onder controle hebt. Toen mijn paard dat had was oa de blinde darm niet goed. Laarakker heeft me geholpen om hem er weer boven op te krijgen.
Peetstap schreef:Slmt9 schreef:Nog niet geoefend met de emmers, wel kreeg ik als cadeautje schouderbinnenwaarts aangeboden aan de hand. Werk elke week aan ‘cross’, ‘over’ en daardoor konden we gaan wijken. En ik dacht, ik probeer eens of schouderbinnen wil. Met vlag en wimpel geslaagd dag twee ook feilloos. Super fijn’
Hoop t ook dat je de darmen onder controle hebt. Toen mijn paard dat had was oa de blinde darm niet goed. Laarakker heeft me geholpen om hem er weer boven op te krijgen.
Cross over, is min of meer bij jou een overdreven travers/renvers ?
Is een hele goede , ietwat vergeten losmaak oefening
Oefen je dat onder bit of op kaptoom/ halster ?
Peetstap schreef:Sanne, Kun je me es visueel maken wat jij doet met snuffel spelletjes en manier van belonen ?
Denk dat ik vrijwel hetzelfde doe, maar zie graag een beeld voor me hoe een ander dat weer doet.
En herken je opmerking over de hectiek in het click en belonen zeker.
Scheelt ook weer enorm met karakter van paard natuurlijk, maar omdat ik actueel weer werk met totaal verschillende paarden moet ik elke keer weer switchen om de rust erin te kunnen houden.