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Shaping Behaviors Steps may come with a higher lift of
and less often as the horse’s
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is a fundamental part of any Stand in front of the lip and/or holding the lip
understanding and muscle
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equine training. It involves your horse and have a food up each time for just a second
memory increase. After a pe-
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shaping and perfecting either a treat in the palm of your or so longer.” Do this by
riod of time, a verbal reward
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behavior that we are teaching hand with your fingers closed withholding the bridge signal
and/or a stroke or scratch is
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loosely around it so it that it momentarily. Most horses try
usually enough motivation for
that a horse may first offer on is easy for the horse to smell. very hard to get it right as soon
the horse.
Singles
his own accord that the handler Urge the horse to explore and as they understand that they
Each horse has a dif-
decides is useful and would nuzzle for the treat. In order to can earn a reward. Remember
ferent capacity to handle food
like to shape. get the treat, the horse has to this is “Shaping Behaviors”.
rewards. Some horses are easily
Here we will explore use the lip in a prehensile way. The Smile is
manageable and are respectful
teaching the Smile, as a study (Horses do this naturally when probably the only Trick that
and do not get pushy. Others
in Shaping Behaviors. While picking through forage.) will require a food treat after it
just can’t tolerate the tempta-
we don’t do comedy with our When he does this, is confirmed.
tion to become pushy for food.
horses, the smile is a Trick tell him “Good” and let him
This is where an owner’s dis-
that many folks find amusing, take the treat from the palm Common Problems
cretion is very important.
and we do too! Smiles are of your hand. Use the word Some horses get
contagious between humans “Good” initially and instantly very pushy. Correct this as you
Shaping Human Behavior
and as we have found-from when you see any movement go on an individual basis. With
Trick Training is a
horses to humans. One of of the upper lip extending to some Horses a stern “no” will
wonderful tool to perfect a
the greatest by products of reach the treat. Offer a treat- be enough to stop the mugging
human’s skills. It is up to us to
teaching “Tricks” is that as quickly as possible in and with others you may need
develop in our horse a “want to”
horses quickly learn how to conjunction with the bridge to Withhold the treat for a few
desire to do what we are asking.
offer their learned behaviors signal. repetitions and use a stroke and
For example, there really isn’t
in an equine attempt at As soon as he verbal approval until he stops
a way to force a horse to smile
exchange with us humans. In understands that there is a mugging.
or retrieve an object. Teaching
most barns feeding time looks reward waiting for him, when
Tricks requires that we actu-
and sounds as though one he nuzzles for the treat, ask Tips
ally catch, pay attention to and
is in a very unruly and loud him to reach for it with his • Teaching
respond to the approximations
zoo-with horses kicking the lip. In the beginning, each the Smile on a pedestal will
that our horse is offering. If
Stall Mats
walls and generally making a slight lifting of the upper lip help keep a horse in place, and
the human misses these “tries”
commotion to try (in their own should be rewarded. Horses minimize pushiness for a treat.
from the horse, the horse will
way) to hurry the food supply. will usually “reach” for the • M o n i t o r
soon stop “trying”. Motivating
At our barn, our horses use treat with the upper lip if it this trick closely when you
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a horse is a very different matter
taught behaviors such as the is held just a little outside of allow children or other
from simply releasing the pres-
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Smile in an attempt to solicit their reach. Be very quick to handlers to cue the horse.
sure on a horse. This is a very
attention including their food give the bridge (or marking) Most non horsey friends do
different concept than most
from us. signal of “Good” followed not understand the necessity of
horse people have been taught.
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practice to hone our skills.
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interesting and perplexing
relatively easy to teach to most the palm of the hand. This • A horse
individuality, their similarities
horses and a smiling horse change of position is called will only Smile a certain
within the equine species and
Don Buyse - Lakota Farm and Ranch, Inc.
almost always puts a Smile on transferring the cue and most number of times without a
of course how best to motivate
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most people’s faces. This is a horses take a simple change reward.
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It is our job as horse
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will take our index finger and taught to an extremely mouthy
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respond correctly according
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to their training but it is us
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of making our requests under-
Cues: Vocal cue is over time to be able to stand Tricks especially those that
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“Smile. Proximity cue can be back a few feet from the horse require difficult poses or that
also up to us humans to accept,
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very close or as far away as and have him Smile with the require more brain power than
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