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Post by littleniki on Feb 6, 2016 9:54:28 GMT -5
I am working with a mare that is blind on the left side I can move her around the round pen to the right and do inside and outside turns with no problems. But moving to the left she can not see me so in trying to get her to turn out I am having to really get in front of her and it creates the opening for her to turn inside which is not what I am asking for.
Any suggestions?
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Post by horsespoiler on Feb 6, 2016 23:05:51 GMT -5
Welcome littleniki, I wish I had any suggestions for you but I have never dealt with a horse that has a blind eye. Do you think you could combine a voice command to have her turn out? Maybe a helper to block the inside until she catches on? If you used the voice command on her good side too she should be able to pick it up quicker.
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Post by MaryS on Mar 9, 2016 12:16:08 GMT -5
Never worked with a blind horse. But, I would imagine visual cues are what you are trying to use (saying you have to really get in the way to force the turn) which is not going to work with a horse that cannot see. She turns inside because she sees you from the good eye and turns in the way that blocks her from submitting to the bad eye.
Verbal cue can work, but you must train it from the good side. Be forgiving from the bad side until she figures it out. Maybe smaller steps and work from a walk in order to get the turn (lessening a chance of being runover or the inside turn).
May also work on ground work and forgo the round penning until you can get her to trust you with the bad eye. Can you disengage the hips on the left, can you ask her front end to move off from the left, anything on the left where she has no clue where you are because you aren't in her right eye vision. Once she trusts and works well from a line, you can see how she'll do in the open.
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