Charlotte

We are picking up Charlotte today, showing how to load a youngster who isn’t halter broke, although he mom is. We are hauling her to the ranch discussing how and why we do what we do to keep everyone safe!

This is the first official day of working with Charlotte. We worked her with her mom in the pen. We started by sacking her out with the cotton rope.

We decided to tie Charlotte’s mom to the outside of the stall today. Charlotte wasn’t at all happy about it! We continued working with the rope and getting her to start giving to the pressure of it.

We continued with the rope work and getting her to give to the rope around her body getting her to move sideways and even backwards!

Today we started handling Charlotte’s feet with the rope. Teaching a horse to lead by their feet will keep them safe if they ever get tangled in a rope or wire. We finished by putting a halter on her.

More rope stuff today, Charlotte is really getting good about giving to the rope! We also picked up all her feet with the rope, then put her halter on and worked on some leading.

Today we put Charlotte’s halter on and then worked with her feet helping her understand that she can’t leave anytime she wants. We then finished up with some leading lessons.

Today we ventured into the small round corral to work on our leading. Charlotte got pretty frustrated with us but she finished up OK.

Because Charlotte got so pushy yesterday we realized we need to get more respect so we kept her in her stall and worked her with a flag.

We continued with our flag work today. Charlotte is starting to realize she isn’t always the boss!!

More flag work today and we picked up her feet some more.

Today we upped the ante a bit by going back outside to the round corral to put what we learned to use! We also reprimanded Charlotte for being so aggressive and pushy with her mom.

We continued our work in the round corral and Charlotte is definitely improving!

Today we ventured to a larger area! As Charlotte gets better the lessons will get harder! We really start working on her leading now!

We start today with catching Charlotte in a larger area. She didn’t think she had to be caught either! Luckily I’m not good at giving up! We continued with leading and finished up with tying her for the first time to an inner-tube.

We caught her again in the larger area, continued with flag work and really creating our bubble as we led her. We finished with tying to our inner-tube again then put her away with out mom coming with us.

Today we changed things up a bit again! We brought Charlotte out by herself and worked her till she started listening then tied her up and brought her mom out. To say the least she wasn’t impressed! We finished up by taking them out to a larger pen to stay in till they return home.

Now we are working Charlotte right in her new pen. she has sure come a long way! We continue recapping all we have learned and added stopping, backing and haunch turns.

We worked a lot on picking up feet and she even tried to lay down a few times, but we kept with it till she could hold herself up!

We worked on progressing with our leading, from using a flag to just our arms, or halter rope. More feet work too!!

This is our last day of working Charlotte till she is weaned. We recapped everything as always and then trimmed her feet. We plan to bring her back when we wean her, hope to see ya then!

Today we brought Charlotte back over for weaning. To say the least she was not happy!!