How to re-educate a resistant horse to pick up its feet part two

Learn to relax and enjoy your horse. Michelle Quirico, "MQ Training" is based out of the North Bay at American Canyon Training Center in Napa, CA. Michelle offers confidence building for adults and children on her well-behaved school horses, instruction on client’s own horses and help finding the right fitting horse for new horse owners. MQ Training also offers the starting of young horses from finishing through advanced training. Michelle competes and shows in Western Pleasure, Open breed shows, competitive trail riding, Endurance, Team Penning, Gymkhana, breed demonstrations, Costume, and Parading. In 2014 MQ Training won several Gymkhana High Points and Reserve Champion in Team Penning. MQ Training is currently accepting a limited amount of clients, contact Michelle to reserve your spot www.MQTraining.com

[@LisaR2392]

Everyone shows this... we know what we’re looking for, but HOW DID YOU GET TO THIS POINT!??!!!? There is so much to getting to this point and that’s what we need to see!!

[@sheila7909]

Exactly that already know how to pick up their feet seriously

[@samw6945]

Facts every video on youtube is this. No horse in these videos is ever a difficult horse

[@Jeffreysaunt]

Thank you for this! Working with my mare that I recently acquired, this really helps. Due to an old injury on her back hock, she is fine with her front feet but she pulls her back legs up under her and stomps them down. I'm going to try this for the next few weeks! Thanks again!

[@haleycuthrell9904]

I'm definitely going to try this with my boy! Just like your mare, he lets me pick up his front feet without any fuss but when I get to his back feet he gives me a lot of grief. Awesome video!

[@Padmavideo]

To the people saying "how did you get to this point" please watch PART ONE. This is a two part series and the above video is part two. Thanks for watching!

[@georgeborrego7483]

You need to get all horse owners to do this.Also let horse owners know it is not the farriers job to train the horse to stand for shoeing.

[@johnnyboy5274]

Thank you Michelle, this is a great video.

[@markskeels7254]

I know this is close to 6 years old, but if your still monitoring, I was wondering how many times you would go back and forth from front to rear and left to right per session, like 5 times per foot and it takes 15 minutes/day or that sort of thing. You showed in your first video going back and forth 2 times on the left side, but of course it was cut short due to time of video.

[@Padmavideo]

We worked with her until she was relaxed. So it wasn't a set amount of times per foot but more like when you pick up a back foot, if she was compliant and relaxed, she'd get praised and / or a treat and that was her cue that she did it right. So it was a few times per foot but not a set amount per foot. Michelle does point out though, that horses love routines so if you start with the front left then usually go to the back left they start anticipating and will start to pick up the hind foot more easily.

[@anandvidyasagar]

I know this video is quite quite old. Just in case if you are still monitoring the comments. How many days did this take. I have a stallion which does not allow a farrier to do his hind feet. I have no ideas about any historical trauma. Hence just wanted to know how long did you take to get this mare to shed her fear/trauma.

[@Padmavideo]

Please watch part one if you haven't done so. And it took us a few weeks to where she would reliably just pick up her hind feet and relax. This mare was not an extreme case of kicking. She was a little nervous and fearful and would "argue" by trying to move her back foot out of the handler's grasp. She needed to learn that nothing bad would happen with a back foot up. She was also rewarded with treats when she picked up a foot in a relaxed way and held it up quietly.

[@keiratritto5896]

how tall is she?