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[RC] re: trailer ties & hay bags - DreamWeaverAlso, I love the way Karen has her hay bags set up. I use the same bags, but I do have one mare who paws at them and I have to keep them high enough for her not to get her foot caught in them (which she did in the trailer and it was ugly!). Just some thoughts. Cindy Cindy -- one of my horses used to put his foot thru the haybags in the trailer as well, but he hasn't done it outside of the trailer. He really liked to do it if the bag was brand new (just ask Tammy how many haybags she's repaired for me <g>). I think that why it works outside is that I had been hanging these bags (or other types of haybags) on the hitching posts for years, that way the horses got into the routine of having hay in front of them while I tacked them up, and after returning from being ridden. The haybags were low there, the bottoms often would sit on the ground. So when I got the new trailer I came up with the idea of mounting the bags lower down in part because I figured that they worked well on the hitching posts, but also because I didn't want to have the new trailer get all scratched up. As it turned out, it worked better than I expected. I just didn't want you to assume that if your horse had a problem inside the trailer that she would for certain have one outside, she might not. There will be horses that this won't work for. I found a couple of pages on hobble training and had some bookmarked previously. I like to reinforce this with each horse once a year. I also do other things to them like longing them with a loose saddle so it will fall. Better to do it in a safe controlled environment than at a ride. I've seen two horses run blindly thru camp and end up with a hind hoof thru their stirrups and the legs skinned pretty bad (and, more than two that ran blindly due to the saddle falling under them). My horses have stopped and do not move now if their saddles fall to the side, or under them. Since I am often the one in the way of these out of control galloping horses as they come running blindly my direction, I figure it doesn't hurt to try to get people to train their horses ahead of time! :^) Hobble training will also train a horse not to struggle if they do happen to put a leg thru a haybag. http://www.horseproblems.com.au/horse_problems_on_hobbles_and_na.htm http://gaitedhorses.net/Articles/Hobble/hobble.html http://www.markarostables.com/Training.htm http://user.cavenet.com/parkerk/clickertraining5.html
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