Training Horses and Checking Tack

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This week I worked a good chunk with training on some fresh and younger horses that I am trying to get ridden so that they can be used as ranch horses. One of the horses I’ve been working with had never been worked with or ridden. With the help of my boss, and after a couple weeks working with him, I put the first ride on him a couple days ago.

Getting to train on these horses has been very rewarding for me because I have never had the opportunity to take a horse from not wanting to be touched to letting me ride them for the first time. This has been super interesting because of all the parallels training a horse has to every day life and the whole idea of pressure and release.

The one thing I would change from this experience would be that I would pay closer attention to my equipment, a.k.a. my saddle, because the second time I saddled the youngest horse and was preparing to get on him, my latigo broke. Because of this, my saddle slid under his belly and spooked him. Luckily, after he bucked around for a second, he came to me and stopped. I was able to take the saddle off him. After repairing my latigo, I successfully put a first ride on him. He did exceptionally well!

Another question I have is how much federally managed land is underproducing and would those government agencies be willing to work with producers to start regenerating BLM and USFS managed lands?

Moving forward, I will monitor and take better care of my equipment. I also would like to try [to]and keep getting better at training the horses so I can make good ranch horses out of them. I also want to spend more time learning how to communicate to my horses the things I want from them.