10 Benefits of Grass Training your Horse

What is grass training? Teaching your horse with positive reinforcement to ignore grass in training, leading and riding. In Grass Training you teach your horse to leave grass with a Stop Grazing-cue, and a Grazing-cue. It’s easier than you think, as long as you’ll use the right approach and don’t use R- or P.

Benefits Grass Training

1. Yummiest training ever for your horse! He will immediately pay attention to you when he understands there is a Start Grazing -cue. This will be the quickest learning of a cue.
2. By giving your horse something she wants, you immediately have her positive attention!
3. No more unsolicited grazing on trails! You can ride, lunge and train at liberty on grass without losing your horses attention!
   
4. If you do fun stuff, your horse will trust you, looking out for your next visit. It’s a great foundation for friendship between you and your horse
5. It will give you incredible results. You’ll notice how annoying and frustrating it was, once you’ve solve it.
6. Your horse won’t snack on grass during at liberty work, leading or riding!
7. Your horse will become easy to get of out of the pasture. Simply call his name.
8. You both stop being frustrated while grass is available during riding or training
9. It will improve your communication
10. It will enhance to bond with your horse

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Happy Horse training!

Sandra

Grass Training (online course)

 

 

 

Teach a horse to lead (or lunge) on grass *grass training done successfully*

A step-by-step training guide can you find in my article that’s published on Horse Rookie. One day I realized that my horse kept pulling me toward grass and it made me feel like an inadequate horse owner. Here I was, with over 30 years on horse experience and still I was pulled towards juicy patches of grass. Sound familiar? I decided to make a training out or it, but whatever I did nothing worked long-term. Next day it all seemed forgotten. Which it wasn’t really, it was just the pull of the grass that was so much stronger than my pull on the lead rope. So the behaviour was very much self-rewarding. Only one thing to do: become more enticing than the grass! The only way to do this is with 100% positive reinforcement.  In the article I wrote for Horse Rookie I describe two ways of approach, depending of the level of clicker training your horse had before. All horses like ‘grass training’ because it’s a win-win: either grazing or not grazing is rewarded. READ THE ARTICLE HERE Imagine how much frustration you’ll avoid!

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Sandra Poppema, B.Sc.

I help horse owners get the results in training they really, really want with joy and easy for both horse and human. I always aim for win-win!

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• Professional, personal positive reinforcement advice on your training videos
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• Student levels are novice to very advanced clicker trainers

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