The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . FiG. 86.—Simple way of haltering a dangerous colt. ous monster, whipping them while talking in an unknownlanguage, indicating by his actions that he would kill or in-jure them, they would become so frightened and excited (91) 92 COLT TEAINING. tliat their first impulse
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . FiG. 86.—Simple way of haltering a dangerous colt. ous monster, whipping them while talking in an unknownlanguage, indicating by his actions that he would kill or in-jure them, they would become so frightened and excited (91) 92 COLT TEAINING. tliat their first impulse would be, resistance, or ,a desperatestruggle to get away. Now this is the impression made upon the wild, un-broken colt when hurt, frightened, or excited, in the effortto train and control him, and Avhich in a proportionate de-gree must increase the difficulty of his successful It is important, on this account, that every step in. Fig. 87.—Testing a doubtful colt before subjecting to treatment. the management of these cases be of a character to preventand overcome fear, when the instruction and training canbe carried forward tb the degree of the colts ability to un-derstand, and there is perfect obedience. Haltering. To halter an unbroken colt, first turn him into a mod-erate-sized room or carriage-house, without stalls or any- HALTEKING. 93 thing which he can run against to hurt himself. It wouldalarm him too much to try to catch and hold him to puton the halter, and besides, there is danger of getting difficulty can be easily overcome as follows : Get ahcjht pole ten feet long, and drive two nails in it abouteight inches apart, the first about one inch from the a common rope halter, and form a running noose withthe part which slips through it back about two feet. Hang
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