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How would you tame a wild horse?

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Joining up is the best, most effective, gentlest, and often quickest way to tame a wild horse. This is a method to not only gain the horse's trust and respect, but to gain the horse's submission towards you. Join-up is the method that dominant horses use on each other when they meet a new horse that wants to join the herd.

A round pen is the best thing to use for this, but it's not absolutely necessary. It just makes things easier for the horse to focus on you and not on everything else around it. Make sure the horse has a halter on, and also have a long line (preferably a light sash) to gently control him. The sash is designed, when used effectively, to not hurt the horse, but just encourage him to go.

Start by standing in the centre of the pen and introduce yourself by rubbing with the flat of your hand the horse's forehead. Then move away toward the rear of the horse, remembering to stay out of the kick-zone. Now when you're behind him, or when he flees, whichever comes first, pitch the line towards is rear. This will cause the horse to retreat (as horses are naturally flight animals), and consequentially you must advance and keep the pressure on. Pitch the line around 2 times per revolution or whatever it takes to keep the horse moving ahead of you.

Keep an assertive mode when working with him, keeping your eyes on his, and your shoulder axis square with his head. Maintain forward movement as much as possible, but don't fall into his kick zone. Try to get the subject to canter 5 or 6 times around the pen one way, then reverse and have him canter around the other way. When you switch revolutions, now's the time to start looking for signs from him that he wants to stop.

Watch the inside ear (the one closest to you) movement. It will slow movement or stop altogether while the other ear keeps going in radar-mode monitoring his surroundings. His head will also begin to tip, ears to the inside, and the neck bending slightly to bring the head closer to the center of the circle, where you are. He will also start to lick his lips and chew. All these signs are the signs he's giving you that he wants to stop.

Now coil the line and bring your eyes away from his, assuming submissive mode. Don't look in his eyes. Bring your shoulder-line to a 45 degree position away from him, inviting him to come to you, or at least to look your way and stop retreating. If he comes to you, great! If he stands and faces you, but does not comes towards you, start moving closer to him, doing it in arcs and semicircles (kinda like a windshield-wiper movement), not straight at him.

If he moves away, then take him around for a few more laps before trying again, repeating the steps above. As you attempt to move closer (after taking him around again a few times until he shows submission again), keep your shoulder axis at a 45-degree angle to his body axis, and for the most part, show your back to him. This is a voluntary invitation for you to come to you and reach out with his nose to your shoulders.

Now with the follow-up, approach his head and give him a good rub between the eyes, then walk away, moving in circles. You may wish to start by circling to the right about ten feet, then switch to the other side, or vice versa. Repeat several times. He should follow you, or at least move to keep his head in your direction. If he does not follow you, then you will find yourself facing his hind-quarters. If that happens, time to put him back to work again, as mentioned above, repeating the whole process again.

Once you have accomplished all this, then it's time to enter his more vulnerable areas. Starting on the near side, use both hands to massage first his neck, then work your way to his withers, back, hips, fore-flanks, and rear flanks. Do the same on the off side. Then you are ready to pick up his feet.

After all this, you can also start doing some other ground-work with him to gain more and more of his trust and respect until you are ready to start putting a saddle on him. Above all, when working with him the whole time, STAY CALM. And repeat, repeat, repeat.

Also remember, wild horses are generally "spookier" than domestic horses born and raised by humans. If you are an inexperienced horseman (or woman), get an experienced horse trainer to help you.

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Well there are many ways to train a horse, it all depends on what you want your horse to do. I suggest getting into Pareli horsemanship, it helped me alot when i was first training my first horse

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you can help wild horses by putting food out where a wild horse lives, and can also put in treats if you want (apples, carrots, sugar cubes). you can also bring them to a barn and give them the proper care they need, but first, you would half to make them trust you so they can fallow you.

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Don't train your horse, gentle your horse. It may not be quick, but it is the sure way. You want a horse trained properly and well? Gentle him, don't train. Take it easy, step by step, horsemanship.

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i suggest, you take yourself and your wild horse to a horse breaker or trainer and get the horse domesticated so you can groom it and exercise it - or - wild horses dont get cared for by people, remember that. put another horse or two in the paddock with the wild horse and they will groom each other. they will stand head to tail and groom each other by rubbing their teeth along the other horses coat. and to take care of the feet, they usually are taken care of by themselves. because wild horses always run on rough ground, the hooves file and shape themselves. wild horses need a lot of attention though. you could build a trust with it by spending time with your wild horse in the paddock, not approaching it just standing there or sitting there and watch your body language. im a 13 year old girl who reads a lot of horse books and websites::)

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Well, that is why we call it training. You need to spend a lot of time with a wild horse to earn its trust. Suggest you find some books on horse training.

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first you have to gain its trust, be its friend not enemy....im sure you can think of ways to gain trust :)

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Take it somewhere for them to train it.

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Yes, you can, but be careful.

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no

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