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| Fam-farm, go back and reread your post. It will answer a lot of your question on these horses bad behavior. You last sentence stated that the young horse is starting to do it as well. You need to stop cinching a horse too tight when you saddle them. So these horses you bring in out of pasture or stall, tie them up and brush off. Then untie the horse, hold lead rope in hand or teach horse to ground tie by dropping lead to ground. Then saddle horse, but DO NOT chinch tight, in fact very loose. Let horse stand a second. Lead horse out walk around in circle, let horse relax. Then tighten chinch a little more, walk horse out a little. Just leave chinch loose, just enough to hold saddle on, tie horse up then or load in trailer. A horse has to have time to blow some air out of them, if you tighten chinch too fast it hurts them. It will cause a horse to pull back, baulk when trying to get a horse to walk out when you get one, it will also cause a horse to rear over when get on.
You will never get that out of a old horse of pulling back now, try to minimize it by not tying horse up when saddling them. Also when trailering or when you dismount for a little while loosen the chinch and let horse breathe, also helps to lift saddle and let a little under pad to cool horse off if needed.
These horses need more ground work, the answer isn't a stouter halter and lead. All you end up doing is breaking a horses neck if you push it too far. I've seen some horses I've had to hobble when saddling, not tie up. But there is a reason these horses start crap is because people don't take the time to be smooth and fluid around a animal. Also a lot of horses you need to untie when giving injections, they will flat out try and strike you if tied up and you can get hurt. When a horse get to that point a leg needs tied up or put in a stock to do vet work. | |
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Horse pulls back. Fix?
