| Safe Versatile Partners |
Contact Info:
Michael Keyes is the
Primary trainer at Gardner
Ranch
Phone: 225-773-3732
email:
michael@vaqueroway.net
At Gardner Ranch we develop, safe versatile partners, using patience,
strategy and consistency; rather then physical punishment, control, and
force.
We use time rather then controlling type devises like tie downs,
martingales, crops or unneeded controlling type bits.
There are as many methods and techniques for training horses as there
are for cooking chicken. But, a lot of people don't know, or don't care,
what is really best for the horse rather than what they can get done with
the horse. A mentor of mine once told me:
"If you have a child that won't keep quiet, that you want quiet, you can
sew his mouth shut with a needle and thread and it will work. He will keep
quite. But, that's sure not what's best for the child."
A horse wants to do right, he just wants to know how. And he wants to
know how without being bothered about it. The horse has the right to be
scared, it is God given. It is his instinct to flee for survival, called flight
mode. It is our responsibility to teach him to have courage, and not
punish him for his fears.
I have been around and watched many different trainers. And, some I
don't know why they mess with horses. They remind me of the man who
beats his wife and then turns around and says how much he loves her.
The difference with horses is the emotional and mental abuse from the
predator type actions of the human. How do we fix this? By learning to
read a horse and learning how a horse reads us. Most people know the
basics of the ears back, but it goes much deeper than that. They don't
know the horse is always watching their body language, and that you
can actually be emotionally and mentally beating your horse without even
knowing it.
At Gardner Ranch we use either Vaquero Horsemanship or Natural
Horsemanship to get to, not only the physical, but the emotional and
mental side of a horse.
Please email me at michael@vaqueroway.net with any questions or
comments.
Links:
strategy and consistency; rather then physical punishment, control, and
force.
We use time rather then controlling type devises like tie downs,
martingales, crops or unneeded controlling type bits.
There are as many methods and techniques for training horses as there
are for cooking chicken. But, a lot of people don't know, or don't care,
what is really best for the horse rather than what they can get done with
the horse. A mentor of mine once told me:
"If you have a child that won't keep quiet, that you want quiet, you can
sew his mouth shut with a needle and thread and it will work. He will keep
quite. But, that's sure not what's best for the child."
A horse wants to do right, he just wants to know how. And he wants to
know how without being bothered about it. The horse has the right to be
scared, it is God given. It is his instinct to flee for survival, called flight
mode. It is our responsibility to teach him to have courage, and not
punish him for his fears.
I have been around and watched many different trainers. And, some I
don't know why they mess with horses. They remind me of the man who
beats his wife and then turns around and says how much he loves her.
The difference with horses is the emotional and mental abuse from the
predator type actions of the human. How do we fix this? By learning to
read a horse and learning how a horse reads us. Most people know the
basics of the ears back, but it goes much deeper than that. They don't
know the horse is always watching their body language, and that you
can actually be emotionally and mentally beating your horse without even
knowing it.
At Gardner Ranch we use either Vaquero Horsemanship or Natural
Horsemanship to get to, not only the physical, but the emotional and
mental side of a horse.
Please email me at michael@vaqueroway.net with any questions or
comments.
Links:
| Sua Sponte |
Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength. He goweth on to meet the
armed men.
He mocketh at fear, and is not afrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he that it is the
sound of the trumpet.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder
of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39: 19-25 KJV
THE HORSE HAS SO DOCILE A NATURE, THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS RATHER DO
RIGHT THAN WRONG, IF HE CAN ONLY BE TAUGHT TO DISTINGUISH ONE FROM
THE OTHER.
George Melville (1821-1878)
Scottish writer
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.
He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength. He goweth on to meet the
armed men.
He mocketh at fear, and is not afrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; neither believeth he that it is the
sound of the trumpet.
He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder
of the captains, and the shouting.
Job 39: 19-25 KJV
THE HORSE HAS SO DOCILE A NATURE, THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS RATHER DO
RIGHT THAN WRONG, IF HE CAN ONLY BE TAUGHT TO DISTINGUISH ONE FROM
THE OTHER.
George Melville (1821-1878)
Scottish writer
A great web site
on the horses
hoof. There is a
lot of info on
treating fonder,
lamanitis and
navicular. Not to
mention the
benefits and how
to keep a horse
bare foot.
on the horses
hoof. There is a
lot of info on
treating fonder,
lamanitis and
navicular. Not to
mention the
benefits and how
to keep a horse
bare foot.
A great sight for vaquero info
and vaquero style tack.
and vaquero style tack.
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