Building Long Lasting Foundations Through Natural Horsemanship!

          

We start horses with Natural Horsemanship methods. We use a gentle approach.  We are as firm as nessacery but light as possible when training horses. The objective of training should be to end up with a safe, calm dependable horse that will willingly do what we ask it to do, when we ask it to do it.  I believe in establishing a solid foundation on a horse. Like the foundation under a house, solid and correct reining is essential to avoiding riding problems and helps in solving difficulties should they arise.  A solid foundation includes softness in all movements of  a horse.  We start horses from the ground up.  Ground training and round pen work prepares a horse for work under saddle by teaching them to relax and to respond when pressure is applied. The result is a horse that is a willing partner.


 Colt Starting
     Designed to build trust and confidence in the horse, the colt-starting program will allow the horse to overcome the natural flight instinct and to view humans as leaders that can be trusted. The horse will be exposed to the basics of becoming a riding horse and helped to accept these things in as stress free a manner as possible. The horse will develop a foundation of skills that enables him to be comfortable in the human world.  We work with horses for a couple weeks on the ground with ground work and then the rest is mounted work with working on reining and cues.  Some horses may get more riding or less riding depending on how quickly they advance.  We teach horses to be soft and respond to pressure on the ground before mounting.  We ususally pony horses from another horse to get him used to the environment before riding them out. Some times it is just safer to have help. We work as a team when we introduce the rider for the first time. The first couple rides, many times are with one of us in the center repeating the commands that the horse has learn on the lounge line as the rider applies the signals. Horses then will be rode in the arena then  and we take horses on trail rides, through streams, up hills, down hills and everywhere. We try to expose horses to as much as possible. 

  As we explained we start horses using natural horsemanship methods, which means we do not be rough with your horse or force your horse into doing anything. We take our time and do things slow and naturally for the horse to understand. We will not get on a horses back until they are ready. They must be responding to  everything well on the ground before they are safe to get on. We do this for our safety and your horses. All horses are different and it depends on the individual horse on how far along they get.  On a normal learning horse that doesn't give us much problems we usually do about 8 to 15 days of groundwork and then put 22 to 15 rides on them. Sure life would be easy if all we had to do is get them to accept the saddle and rider, but there is more too it than that. It takes time to put all the maneuvers on a horse, such as backing, stopping good, sidepassing, moving frontquarters and hindquarters, and getting them to stay in a walk, trot or lope until you tell them to change, letting them see things outside the arena and on the trail, plus desensitizing them to as much as possible. But we really encourage owners to let us put at least 60 days on them. Especially for people that have lack of experience with riding colts. At anytime in training, if your horse does anything that makes us think that he will not turn out how you want him to we will let you know, so you won't spend more money on your horse than he's worth.  If you want to get back a quiet willing partner that will carry you through a lifetime of enjoyment, then give us a call let us get started on your horse.


Trailer Loading - Your horse can learn to go willingly and trustingly into any trailer without you having to climb in ahead of him, even if he has developed a fear of the trailer due to poor previous handling. Our trailer-loading program can take your horse from resistance and fear to willingness and confidence. Horses that have had bad or frightening experiences can overcome them and return to easy trailer loading.

Groundwork Lessons - If you want you horse to be respectful on the ground we will give you lessons on how to establish better groundmanners on your horse. If your horse is pushy, will run past you when leading, never pays attention to you, or so on, he is lacking good ground training. So come over and let us teach you how to get your horse to be a willing, respectful partner on the ground...which will transfer into the saddle when you ride too. Teach your horse to lunge, flex, back, and except scary objects, noises and such. Must have some experience with horses before participating.

Riding Lessons - Get rid of all the confusion and stiffness in your horse...Come out and let us teach you how to ride your horse correctly, using leg pressures and correct reining.

We take care of your horse like he's our own.

We will be adding roping training to our program someday!


Click  on training video below to view videos of training and some horses trained.
Training Video

Monthly Training  --  $595 includes hay and grain ( we've had to go up on prices because of hay and grain prices this year)
          -- $520 if you bring your own hay and grain (which we really would like you to, so your horse is fed grain its
          used to and because of hay shortage and prices this year) 
  
Weekly Training    --  $145 includes hay and grain
(7 days of training)--  $115 if you bring your own hay and grain

Yearling Halter Training and Handling, Weekly  --  $120

Groundwork Lesson  --  $25hr
(learning how to groundwork your horse correctly)

Riding Lessons  --  $20hr


***we make sure we get a full 30 days on your horse, if we have to miss a day we make it up at the end, or do double training the next day. Some weekends we work horses and some we don't (we have our own horses to work), all days will be made up to get your full 30 days.

*Half of training fees will need to be paid up front when we recieve you horse, other half when you horse is picked up. If we are keeping your horse more than a month, you will pay at the end of the first month, the remaining left for that month and half of the next month... and so on...

*Horses must have at least front shoes when being trained to ride. If not able to get shoed, farrier fees must be paid up front.

*No Studs!

*No Broncs!

Please read over the Agreement for requirements and additional info!

Some Horses Trained in 2011

4yr AQHA Mare/ Trained For Ginger Epperson, Rogers, Ar

4yr AQHA Gelding/ Trained For Ginger Epperson, Rogers, Ar