Posted by Ann Uhazi on April 24, 2002 at 16:40:40:
In Reply to: Re: Training Aid posted by Ray Miller on April 23, 2002 at 14:58:44:
: : Just got satelite TV and was watching the horse channel. Some guy on there was working colts and rank horses with a thin bosal type hackamore, I think it was called the "Novel Nose Band". Looked like some kind of wrapped steel bosal that fits very loosely high up on the nose and you give correction by quick tugs/jerks. He claimed that it worked wonders when clipping and shoeing cranky horses. Just wondering if any one else has heard or tried this contraption. Ann
: Ann,
: Haven't a clue. But any jerks on the head of the horse I myself do not think is correct.
: I leave the training to the owners and trainers unless getting paid for it.
: As in my post the other day, I talk with the young lady last night and truned her horse down because they were not schooled in standing for the farrier. The risk is not worth it. I just wished I had learn that 20 years sooner.
: Just my thinking.
: Ray Miller
Ray, This hackamore deal didn't look like it was much different than having a stud chain snapped across the horses nose, except it looked a bit kinder and you could ride with it. I agree about the training. I was just wondering if anyone had tried this thing. I wouldn't mind finding out if it would work on agressive horses that I do end up working with. In fact my own horse, who has always gone barefoot, may need a little "correcting" now that I have to put shoes on him. I moved him from twenty acres on hard ground to my new place that sits on the Yuba River bottom lands and is nothing but sand. He was always okay for trims, but seems very adverse to having shoes and got a bit of an attitude! If I could remember what that thing was called I would order one just to see, you never know. Ann