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jumpit89 wrote:That's my plan. I am a very careful driver when hauling. The trailer is level. I drive like a grandma when the horses are behind me. Never go directly from gas to break and prepare for stopping/turning WAY before the actual turn. Accelerate slowly and when turning do not accelerate until the trailer is straight behind be ( meaning not while the trailer is still turning). I keep the trailer clean and there are no extra anything hanging down that may rattle that I know of. The only thing I dislike about this trailer is it has a rear tack that cannot be removed, I didn't think anything of it when buying it because she has never had issues before and has loaded in similar trailers fine. I just realized I have never mentioned that this is a TB mare. So it could be something extremely minor that is bothering her she is the typical TB stereotype, prissy, and responsive to EVERYTHING.
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jumpit89 wrote:My trailer most matches the first one. I am the only person in my family that has horses and everyone else is terrified of them. that wouldn't be a great idea. Anyone else I know lives over an hour away and if I don't get anywhere positive when I work with her next then I will ask someone to come help. There are shavings in the trailer but I can always add more.
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Lsrd1 wrote:I've also never done the park and feed deal with the trailer, and I can't begin to imagine ever doing that. We've had horses that were difficult to load, that refused to load, that threw a fit about loading. We always got them loaded and didn't have to beat them senseless. But we were pretty insistent that they were going in - - if they wanted to stand there for a while, ok but they had to look at the trailer, etc. We don't use treats or food as a reward just steady pressure. If they wanted to start rearing and thrashing backwards, ok now we're going to really go backwards. If they wanted to try to dodge to the side, then ok we're going to go around in circles for a bit. When they got tired of that, we let them stand facing the trailer. And we kept pretty much steady pressure one way or the other for them to move forward, they got release by doing so.
pentack wrote:I freely admit this happened to me. I had a mare that was awful to load. When I got my present mare, that was my biggest worry, even though she had been hauled thousands of times. Very soon, I had another mare that would not load for me or even when I was in the vacinity. I was the issue. Not the horse, not the trailer. She was feeding off my aanxiety over wether she was going to load or not. So I had my daughter take over loading without me being present. Loaded like a charm. So everytime afterwards, I got closer and closer until I was loading her up myself. Now I know she loads, I don't give it a second thought, problem is resolved and she does, in fact, load just fine now.
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