Desensitizing Your Horse From The Ground and Under Saddle

Desensitizing Your Horse From The Ground and Under Saddle

Desensitizing your horse and teaching your horse how to handle his fear is a must. Horses are a flight animal fleeing from danger and things they are scared of. As horse back riders we it is a must to teach our horses how to face what they are scared of, calm down and go by it like its not even there.

Desensitizing Your Horse From The Ground and Under Saddle
  • Desensitizing Your Horse (Ground Exercise Part 1)*

    Desensitizing Your Horse Part 1
    a, Teaches you how to customize your horse to different sights, sounds, feels, taste, and smells through the horses five senses. Desensitizing your horse will teach your horse how to handle his/her fears and to stay in a calm manner. This video is a clip from the ...

  • Desensitizing Your Horse (Part 2 Ground and Saddles Exercises)*

    Desensitizing Your Horse (Part 2)
    a. Desensitizing your horse part 2 continues exercises that you can use to teach your horse how to deal with sight, sounds, feels, and smells with more ground work that will improve your horses safety during certain situations. This video is a clip from the weavi...

  • Desensitizing Your Horse (Part 3 Ground exercises)*

    Desensitizing Your Horse (Part 3)
    a. Desensitizing your horse part 3 continues the ground exercises and incorporates loud sounds, smoke, flares, additional things that may spook your horse while you are working or riding. This video is a clip from the weaving and stall walking video’s
    b. Tarp exe...

  • Desensitizing Your Horse Part 4 (Saddle Exercise)*

    Desensitizing Your (Horse Page 4)
    a. Desensitizing your horse part 4 starts on the ground and then moves under saddle. This video is a clip from the Weaving and Stall Walking video’s
    b. Barn and buddy sour problems, Spooky objects on the ground, Performance exercises, Lead Changes, Walk, Trot, C...

  • Building Confidence in the spooky horse (Ground Exercise)*

    Spooky horses can be a danger to themselves and to others around them but with a bit of thought and a few simple exercises we can teach a horse to become confident and more rational about what’s going on around him.

  • Desensitizing Your Horse (Kite Exercise)*

    In this video I will go over on how to start desensitizing your horse on his sides and thing that come up behind him. I am also going to show you problems that you can run into doing this exercise and how to correct them.

  • Teaching your horse to over come there fears (Ground Exercise)*

    You can't teach your horse never to be afraid again but you can teach them how to control their fears. In this video I will go over things you can do to teach your horse to control them selves when they become scared

  • Teaching your horse how to accept water from the water hose (Ground Exercise)*

    In this video I will go over step by step to teach you how to teach your horse to accept water coming out of the water hose

  • Blow Drying Your Horse (Ground Exercise)*

    In this video I will go over how you can blow dry your horse with in about 20 minutes. Give it a try

  • Teaching your horse to accept lound noises (Part 1 of 2, Ground Exercise)*

    I did this video on sound sensitive horses, This is part 1 of 2. In this lesson I will show you how to get your horse use to loud sounds with out spooking

  • Introducing Your Horse to Traffic (Saddle Exercise)

    Into to traffic
    a. Riding on the road can be dangerous to both you and your horse, Not all drivers care about you or your horse or they think they are being funny by honking their horns or driving very close to you. In this video we will show you very easy ways to teach your horse how to accept t...

  • Closter Phobic Horses (Ground Exercise)*

    Being in tight spaces is not only a natural fear for horses but also for a lot of other animals and people. In this video I will teach you step by step training your horse how to overcome there fears of tight spaces

  • Is your horse afraid of the winter blankets (Ground Exercises)*

    This is a really good video for everyone that has nervous horses of having there winter blankets put on. In this video I will teach you how to train your horse to accept the winter blanket in a calm manner with out a halter on

  • Horse Trailer Phobias Part 1 (Ground Exercises)*

    Phobias is a fear of being trapped or other fears. Horse Trailers can be a scary place for a horse to be as your horse may feel he or she is trapped once they get in and even when they do get in comfortably closing the center divide or butt bar you may find your horse racing or backing out before...

  • Horse Trailer Phobias Part 2 (Ground Exercise)*

    Horses like people have phobias and some horses have phobias of horse trailers. This is part 2 in helping your horse overcome their phobia of being in small spaces.

  • Teaching The Nervous Horse To Accept The Fly Mask

    Teaching the nervous horse how to accept the fly mask, I have already done two video with this mare on building confidence with the kill pen rescues horse and building a strong bond with the kill pen rescue horse. In this video I will go over how to teach her to accept the fly mask

  • Teaching The Scared/Nervous Horse How To Relax Using My Method Part 1*

    When horse are scared, nervous, excited, stress, anxiety etc. their heads are always up. You will never see a horse like that with there heads down. The calm down cue teaching the horse to automatically calm down. In this video I will teach you in part 1 how to get started teaching this to your h...

  • Teaching The Calm Down Cue (Saddle Exercise)*

    When horses are scared, nervous, excited or have stress and anxiety their heads are always up. This is a preview on teaching the scared/nervous horse how to relax. To see the full video with step by step easy to follow method join my members page at https://mikehugheshorsetraining.vhx.tv . When y...

  • Teaching the Scared/Nervous Horse To Relax Using My Method Part 3*

    Teaching the scared/nervous horse how to relax part 3, Now that your horse know the cue on the ground and under saddle it is time to start adding in items and sounds that make him or her a little nervous and apply the calm down cue. Instantly watch your horse relax like it was no big deal to begi...

  • Desensitizing Your Horse at Liberty (Ground Exercise)

    What makes this exercise so remarkable is there is nothing attached to your horse as he learns to face what he is scared or nervous of, Before starting this exercise make sure all your pre-steps are done and your round penning exercises are solid.

  • 4 Exercises That Will Build Your Horses Confidence (Ground Exercises)

    In this video I will go over 4 ground exercises you can teach your horse to build confidence and trust in the arena and out on the trails.

  • My Horse is Afraid of Whips, Simple Solutions

    If your horse is afraid of whips here is a simple solution to solve the issue

  • Part 1 Desensitizing The Nervous Horse

    Sometimes we get horses that are just nervous and worried about everything. This is part 1 to help your horse to start building confidence and start relaxing

  • Why Your Horse Has To Be SMARTER Then The Drivers and Bicyclists

    In this video I will go over how to start introducing your horse to traffic. While most drivers are good about going slow and wide around you on your horse some just don't care and your horse has to be smarter then they are