Talking to your horse

[Music] [Music] good day I'm oric Schiller and today I want to talk to you a bit about talking to your horse you know um in order to to get along well with horses you really have to understand the nature of horses and even a little bit about their evolution you know horses are horses evolved on like wide open Plains in northern Europe and they're a social animal so they had to learn to communicate but because they grew up in wide open planes they could see each other they didn't necessarily need uh verbal communication you know they they could see each other they could read each other's body language so that was a lot easier and also they're a prey animal they're someone's dinner so if they're very loud about what they did Predators could find them a lot easier so what I'm getting at here is horses don't really talk to each other that much as opposed to say like the domestic Pig they uh evolved in dark forests you know dense forests in northern Europe okay but they're also a social animal so they had to learn to communicate but they couldn't see each other cuz the the forest was so dense so pigs have like 37 38 something like that different chirps and Grunts and noises they can make but if you ever looked at a pig how many facial expressions does a pig have it's just one they look like this all the time you don't know if the pig's happy or the pig's sad or whatever um so anyway horses have a lot of different facial expressions and they really read each other's body language um and that's where a lot of people I see have trouble they you know I've had a lot of people tell me oh I you know I talk to my horse cuz at clinics I'll I'll advise people don't really talk to your horse the best Horsemen I've ever seen do not communicate with their horses verbally you know um you think about like the masters of that sort of stuff Ray hunt Tom Tom Dorrance those guys didn't talk to their horses here at this facility here a while ago we had a buck bramman Clinic it was a 4-day clinic Clinic where they started a bunch of horses and dealt with a lot of problem horses and like Brandman didn't say a word okay a lot of body language involved um but anyway so at clinics I'm always was telling people don't don't talk to your horse cuz I don't listen and the people go no but but my horse listens to me you know and I don't want to you know run on your parade but for the most part people who think their horses listen to them are totally off track um you know I'll give you a good example I was at a clinic number of years ago and I was saying exactly and there was a lady there she goes well my horse listens to me when I talk to him and I said okay what can you tell him to do and she said oh I can tell him to walk Trot cander stop back I said okay well seeing you're standing still right now why don't you ask him to back up she goes okay so she shortens her Rin up and pulls on the rins pretty hard rocks back in the saddle like this and goes back back back and you know what that horse did back up and so I was being kind of factious and I said well that's amazing your horse backs up when you say back but but because your horse backs up when you say back and not because of the pull on the rins why don't you sit the rins on his neck and ask him to back up and she said okay so she dropped the rins on his neck and uh she goes back back back and she rocked backwards and forwards for quite a while and he finally took a step backwards and being fous again I said well that's amazing he backed up when you said back but because he listens to your voice and not your weight in the Saddler anything why don't you just sit perfectly still close your eyes fold your arms and ask him to back and she said okay and so she sat perfectly still fold her eyes closed fold her arms closed her eyes and she said back back back back oh Celeste why aren't you backing I never forget the horse's name it was Celeste and she actually smacked it on the neck she couldn't believe Celeste wasn't backing so do you get what I'm getting at here so you know most people that think their horses listen to what they say it's not listening to what they say um I had this conversation recently with a lady and she was saying no my horses will truck when I say Tron caner when I say cander and and I asked her how she taught it and she taught it the right way she said the the word first and the reinforcement came later if you're going to teach a horse a queue anything whether it's a verbal queue or whatever it is if you use the queue first and the repercussion second you can teach them to move off the the first queue whether it's like doing the ground work if you've got say it's the end of your lead rope or your training stick or whatever you've got if you point first and then use that second pretty soon when you point the horse will go to avoid that but if you point and wave them at the same time you can do that for 2 years I've seen you know hundreds of people come to the clinic say the horse does really good ground workor but they can't get them to go off a suggestion it's always off the threat because they didn't ever separate the two does that make sense anyway so I was talking to a lady here recently and sounds like she had taught her horse to do things properly listen to her properly and I I had said to her that I'd read somewhere that horses can have a um a vocal r a vocal you know they can learn 7 to n words I think it is whereas a dog can learn 42 something like that and she said I know my horses no more than S or n words they know a lot more and uh I said well what what words do they know what do they know and she said oh I can you know she said um if I go out in the pasture and I say I take the blanket out there I can say put your head in it or if I want to pick up their foot I can say pick up your foot uh or if I wanted to go in the barn I can say go in the barn and I said really that's amazing I said can you tell me those three things again and she said sure she said I can tell them to stick their head in it or I can tell them to pick up their foot or I can tell them to go in the barn and I said do you realize that each one of those things you just did you had a big movement for it I said I tell you what I will believe you that your horse listens to what you say try this when you go home cuz you're sure your horses listen to and she goes yeah they speak they listen to my words I said okay what I want you to do is go home take the blanket walk up to your horse and say pick up your foot and right there the blood drained from her face cuz she realized he's not going to pick up his foot you know what I mean so I said what I want you to do is I want you to put the blanket in front of his face and say pick up your foot I want you to point at his foot and say get in the barn okay or I want you to point like that and say put your head in the blanket and see if he actually listens to your body language or listens to what you're actually saying and right then she knew she didn't have to go home and try it she realized she only thought her horse listened to what she was saying her horse was listening to her body language anyway um you know when horses think about a lot of people are going to say yeah but horses talk a lot you know I hear my horse talking all the time your horse is not usually telling another horse what to do they're not issuing a command or a request when they talk usually they're emitting their emotions like let's say this is a 2-year-old stallion here let's say there's horses running up and down over there and he stuck his head in the air and he weed at him he wouldn't be saying I want you to stop and stand there in the corner he'd be saying I wish I was over there with you okay does that make sense horses don't ask for things with vo you know with with vocalization they ask for things with body language um I'll show you really quickly on him so this is a 2-year-old Rainer and I'm just starting to teach him to stop off the word w okay and I'll show you how I'm going about teaching that and you know I've just spent 10 minutes telling you that horses don't listen to your voice and now I'm going to tell you he'll stop off the word wo that's because I'm actually teaching him to stop off the word well as opposed to making him stop and saying well at the same time so what we do with these young rain is teach him to stop off the word well is I'll just ride him down the fence and I'll probably do it at a trot here I'm just going to trot down the fence I'm going to say well I'll show you what I'm going to do I'm going to trut down the fence I'm going to say the word and right a second after I say the word I'm going to tip his nose into the fence which will cause him to stop and I'm going to go the other way okay I'm going to be trotting so what I'm not going to do like this horse will listen to my body okay so what I'm not going to do is try Trot TR whoa because he'll be slowing down off my body not off the the word wo so I try down there and I will still be posting when I ask him to when I say the word so I'll just try down here I'm posting posting posting oh tip his nose into the fence just go the other way right up here posting posting posting oh tipp's nose in the fence go the other way Trot down here posting posting posting and right then he just slowed down slightly now he didn't stop but he slowed down slightly when I said it oh oh and you just do this over and over and over oh there we go he just stopped you notice I fell forward cuz I was still in the middle of posting I didn't make him stop off my body language anyway so just remember if you um want to teach your horse something verbal make sure you ask that first and then do the thing that caused it to happen second don't do them both at the same time or or do them in reverse order you know I see a lot of people lunging their horse they got a whip and they go crack and trot the horse is not trotting cuz you said Trot the horse is trotting cuz you cracked a whip at him if you can throw the whip away and say and trot and your horse trots right there without you changing your body language well your horse has learned how to to um listen to your voice but anyway for the most part horses don't listen to what you say they listen to your body language and what you do so um just keep that in mind hope that helps see you guys next [Music] time

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Length: 10min 17sec (617 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 01 2012