It
is safe to say, I see a lot of horses fed by hand, and I have not
(yet) seen learn to bite because of being hand fed, not as a result of
my coaching. However, I have helped to teach people to stop biting horses, giving them bite manual system, which sound a bit haywire makes. Hopefully, I can explain why this is so.
One of the reasons I hear for people dismiss Clicker training is a training method that it might teach her horse to bite. You feel your horse is a bit "mouthy" and hand feeding will only make that worse. And they dismiss the whole idea of the hand feeding their horses, and sadly, that is, they are the most powerful training dismiss it .. . positive reinforcement. Both she and her horse at the end losing out on so much.
If we step back and think about this election for a second and take the fact that it can tease apart for a horse and the food we begin the details.
One of the reasons I hear for people dismiss Clicker training is a training method that it might teach her horse to bite. You feel your horse is a bit "mouthy" and hand feeding will only make that worse. And they dismiss the whole idea of the hand feeding their horses, and sadly, that is, they are the most powerful training dismiss it .. . positive reinforcement. Both she and her horse at the end losing out on so much.
If we step back and think about this election for a second and take the fact that it can tease apart for a horse and the food we begin the details.
Lets
replace the horse with "child", biting with "feet on 'and with food by
hand with' coffee table '. So now we have the scenario, my child has a
tendency to put his feet on the coffee table when he close the The
coffee table is. On horseback, we remove the food if we mean the same
solution for the child that we should remove it to take the coffee
table. If the table is not there, then they can not do what we do not like.
Suddenly, this approach does not seem practical or even useful. What we have to do, in fact, by the coffee table avoiding the stimulus for the behavior is such that the behavior will not happen. We do not teach the child anything about how we want it to behave at the table.
Take the case back to horses. "My horse is afraid of pigs and does, so we just do not go the way of us past the pigs." That seems like a reasonable thing to do, but what happens the day that hacking your friends to want to take the route that goes past the pigs? You can not leave!
By not taking the horse to the pigs they never dealt with the topic. What if your horse is afraid of a few other things, maybe Clippers. The solution seems to be either not pinch the horse or to sedate the horse for clipping. But it would be nice to not submitted a vet bill, is it a simple task like clipping We have enough substantial veterinary costs without adding to them!
This approach of sedation is the same approach as the removal of the coffee table. There will always avoid the horse in a state where they are located to the attraction and you will get that. With the unwanted behaviorFor some situations in which a solution that works well when having the only fear your horse, but overall it's not a good workout strategy and horses that tend to fear things, a list that have a bit more can be. If we did that! With every question we encountered then we would quickly find ourselves in a bit of pickle
What if you have a horse that is afraid of all sorts of things? They are so, to where you can, because this route has pigs, sheep are limited in that they cross a bridge, and so on has. My horse is scared of the trailer so you! Not even trailers to a new location You can not go to school in the winter, because he fears that the Clippers he gets too sweaty when being trained. The life is very limited with your horse if you want to avoid all the things that trigger unwanted behavior.
Instead of removing the coffee table, it would be more pragmatic and empowering to teach the child how you want them to behave around the coffee table? In other words, it would not be more pragmatic and empowering (and safer) to teach your horse how you want them to behave, when to feed him by hand?
Sounds perfect! But how do you teach it? And that's one of the reasons that prevent many people hand feeding horses. Already undesirable behaviors around food, they do not know how to change it If you beat the horse they still want the food, but now, in order to avoid, they hit lunge at your hand, draw the food and bar ... They are left to count your fingers to make sure you do not have them all! Or the horse will now show no interest because food out of my hand because of it. Chance that they can be taken Shall take not solve anything, if anything it made things worse.
The solution is to create a training plan, teach your horse to hand feed and that begins with "what I want to do my horse when I feed him hand". How do you want your horse to behave. Now that you have described what you look like it (you have defined your end goal), you can build on your plan in order to achieve this goal.
Hopefully this explains how I did it, horses, how to take food to teach polite bite out of my hand ... I have. Not remove coffee table, in some cases, I brought the coffee table out of storage and put it back into the living room and I have to do a training program rather than on what I wanted the horse
What varies for each horse is how much guidance I had to find them the right behavior, but all of them learned how to be polite with the ingestion of food from the hands, because we can not avoid hand contact ... We actively fed the horse hands and say we do not, we do not want them to behave, but we made it clear how we wanted it to behave.
