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My personal experience after raising a lot of foals puts the imprinting theory on its' head!

 

Two years in a row, I had siblings born, imprinted one and not the other.

 

In both cases, the unhandled one was easier to work with when it came time to catch, halter, lead, etc.

 

Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Heidi,
>
> I think you have hit the nail on the head. I had seen enough what I call 
> "problem children" with imprinted horses that when our last was born I 
> decided to do the minimum we needed to do early so we could handle her - 
> but otherwise let Mom and Aunt Rosey teach here to be a horse. After 
> awhile she was with the geldings - reintroduced one at a time and by the 
> time she was 3 months she was a herd
>  horse.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein, physicist

Chris Anton

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