Entering the paddock tutorial

When you crossover to training with Positive Reinforcement (R+), it can sometimes bring up strange and unusual challenges that regular equestrians don't come across or need to figure out solutions.
Most people are trying to figure out how to catch their horse and we're trying to figure out how to get them to back off or calm down or how to give us space.
Management is the first step in our R+ training, it's really important in a variety of ways. Not only in how our horses live and thrive, but also in how to prevent unwanted or problematic behaviour, keep everyone feeling safe, how we manage them day to day and of course in our R+ training.
I've found that often people struggle with the management side of things. How to separate horses, how to set up an ideal training situation, how to prevent resource guarding and food anxiety, how to set up a safe protected contact training environment, how to get a horse safely in and out of a paddock, pen, stall, stable, etc.
I'm all about management and safety and I've helped lots of people overcome these hurdles in order to actually train with R+ and do quality training.
It always starts with management and arranging the environment.
First thing we can do is train in protected contact (behind a barrier) and teach a simple nose target. This video is an example of how we can utilise that first behaviour, the nose target, to give the (very keen) horse information about what to do, where to be, whilst also keeping the rate of reinforcement (food) high and therefore keeping the horse calm, concentrating, problem solving and satisfied and of course, keeping us safe.
As with all things trained with R+, it will become more fluent over time, your horse will start to anticipate and offer more behaviour. You will need less food and eventually you can reduce the amount of food to one handful at the end of the whole process, with both of you feeling safe, focused and confident about what is expected.
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