Lessons and Clinics
Lessons with 'Horse Wyse' can train you to train your horse or donkey.
Training you to be a leader, earn respect and stay safe.
For site visits across the UK please get in touch through our contact form and we will get back to as fast as possible.
Introductory Sessions
£250 with you / £180 on site at Glenhead Farm
2 hour introductory session.
Travel included for a 10 mile radius of GU10 or £1/mile.
Lessons & Training
£100 per Hour / £50 per ½ hour
Weekend Clinics
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Lessons & Clinics
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How can we help?
Clipping, farrier and vet
Clipping Farrier vet don’t wait until they get here. If you have a problem it needs to be all done before they arrive by the sensitising your Horse to the problem I can show you how to do this. Most courses are amazingly quick to fix . Plus this will help your Horse to listen to you at the same time. This will help save you money by not dating your horse when it doesn’t really need sedating.
Calming your horse
Calming your horse a horse can be a reflection of yourself. So you have to be in a calm state and confident while you’re with your Horse otherwise he will feed your nervous energy and think there is something wrong with the world right then one of the best things for calming your Horse is consistency. Make sure when you do something you always do it the same and make sure the Horse understands what you’re saying by being consistent .. clear and consistent instructions. With release for the correct answer and pressure for the wrong answer.
Loading into a trailer or lorry
Teaching your horse to load itself. First thing you need is a queue. so before you start make sure you use your queue, what ever it is, it can be a click of the tongue body language signal, something like that. Once you have asked the Horse what to do you then apply some pressure. Keep applying pressure until you see your Horse move forward towards the box then stop reward the Horse for making the right decision. Then try again you must repeat this process over and over again until the Horse understands. So so when the horse hears your queue it will move forward rather than go to the pressure. It will know to go forward because it understands if it doesn’t go forward it will have to
Body language
Horses are brilliant at body language and even can see subconscious movements. So when you’re asking your Horse to do something you must use the same body language every time to be consistent. You ask for something with your body language and if you don’t get the right answer you apply pressure until you do. This and will work with every Horse because that’s how they communicate. Watch horses in a herd for a few hours and you will appreciate this. Specially if you’ve just left three horses out in the same field, you can see one of them will be the leader and be consistent and what they’re telling the other Horse, until the other horse yields to the leader.
Standing still
Teaching your horse to stand still is one of the best things you can do in the beginning it helps for a great foundation, and if your Horse really understand what standstill means it can help you in sticky situations like standing still for the farrier standing still for the vet, standing still to get on once it realises what standing still means. Everything else becomes easier.
Napping and spooking
Napping and spooking are different. Things I spoke is a surprise like something flying out of the hedge or a fast car approaching. You don’t see it till the last minute. Napping is a horse that won’t go forward and sees an object and wants to do his own thing. stopping your horse napping can be done by making the Horse work where he is stopping and do not move off until the Horse feels like he’s moving forward. Make sure you apply pressure where the Horse is applying pressure to you at that spot and when he feels he’s going forward, relax and reward him similar to loading problems.
Desensitising your horse
Basically keep him near the thing he’s doesn’t like he will get used to it, whatever it is if he shows any kind of interest in the object heath, you thought he didn’t like then reward him like sticks. Just waive the stick slowly not too close and just build it up slow and quickly and take your time until the horse gets bored of you waving the stick around. And things like walking onto a tarpaulin. You can ask the Horse to go forward. If he doesn’t want to go onto it you can just give him some work then ask him again every time he goes forward towards it. Give him a treat every time he goes backwards and doesn’t want to go and it just make him work again until he understands what you’re trying to say if you see him sniffing or pouring at it, you know that he’s beginning to trust it and will be on it soon. If he does smell it give him a treat.
Groundwork
Groundwork is more important than people realise you can use Groundwork to get the Horse to. Really listen to you and you can practice your consistency with the Horse. Personally I don’t get onto horses until the Groundwork is acceptable. It’s not worth riding a horse that’s not listening to you, specially if it’s feral or young