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Contemporary Horsemanship Podcast
by Chandra
The contemporary horsemanship podcast’s goal is the share horse training information with as many people as possible. Here I will explain and discuss many horse behaviors, training techniques, and riding tips.
Episodes
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What a Marker Signal Is and How to Train One
Clicker training requires a marker signal. This marker is usually a click from a handheld clicker or a tongue click. The marker signal tells the horse that what he is doing right now is what you wanted and he will be getting reinforcement soon. The signal creates a bridge between the behavior and...
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Treating Eye Injuries with Cooperative Care/Atlas’s Eye Story
My mustang Atlas recently injured his eye which required me to put two different medications in it four times a day. I used clicker training to get him to cooperate during this process. I discuss how I did this with him at liberty and what I learned from this experience.
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Preparing a Horse for a R+ Training Session
Training horses with positive reinforcement is different than training using traditional training methods. There is a lot more attention to detail, planning, and arranging the environment. These are all little but important things that will make you more successful in your training. I’ll talk…
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Re-Cueing Behaviors /Timing the Release of Pressure
I see people releasing a pressure cue before they are getting the behavior they want happen often and in many different forms. For example, picking up on the reins and asking the horse to stop. The horse ignores the cue and keeps going. The rider thinks he’s done something wrong or let’s go of…
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Teaching a Horse to Lead and Fixing Leading Problems
I wanted to do a revised version of my old episode on leading. I am always learning and adding new stuff to my training program and getting rid of old techniques or beliefs as I grow. I have definitely found what I consider to be the best way to teach a horse to lead and that is with a target.…
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Putting Behavior on Cue
There can be a lot of confusion about cues for both people and horses. Sometimes horses don’t respond to the cues we give them, sometimes horses do a behavior without a cue, and when the context changes (when you are in a new or different environment) the behavior can seem to fall apart. I’m...
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Horse Shows From the Horse’s Perspective
We can easily get wrapped up in why we want to show our horses. We can often forget how horse shows and other events feel like to the horse. Horse shows are filled with scary things that can cause a horse to be very stressed. I’ll talk about some important things that we should take into...
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What Shaping Is and How to Be a Good Shaper
Shaping is done when using both negative and positive reinforcement. It is more often associated with positive reinforcement though. Shaping is when you reinforce small steps toward the behavior that you ultimately want. By reinforcing behavior that is close to what you want, the horse keeps…
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The Myth About Bombproof Horses
I want people to have realistic expectations with horses. Everyone loses when a horse is promised to be bombproof and will never spook. I’m going to talk about why I think this is so dangerous and give some tips on what to really expect from a horse, bombproof or not.
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What to Do Instead of Riding or Training
We all get burn out and just need a break sometimes. There is a culture in the horse world that you must work with or ride your horse all the time, no matter how you or your horse feels. But instead of working just to get something done, there are lots of other things we can do while still…
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Horse Agility
I’ve recently started participating in equine agility and I have really enjoyed training my horses through each course. I love that whips are not allowed, taking slack out of the rope takes points off of your score, and you are allowed to use food. I will expand on why I love these things and…
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Start Buttons
Start buttons are a tool used in clicker training where the animal performs one before to let the handler know he is ready for another behavior. I have found start buttons to be very helpful in horse training. I’ll cover what start buttons are and how to use them.
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Desensitizing a Horse to Tarps Pt 2: Laying a Tarp Over the Horse and Dragging One Beside
Once the horse is ok with crossing and standing on a tarp, then you can start training the next two behaviors. I’ll explain the process of teaching a horse to be ok with having the tarp over his back and how to teach him to drag a tarp from the beginning.
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How to Get Your Horse to Cross a Tarp
The usual ways of training a horse to cross a tarp include chasing, pulling, and pressuring the horse until he does it. By forcing a horse to cross in this way you can very easily make going near the tarp a source of pain and fear, making your goal even harder. By using positive reinforcement the...
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What to do About Spooking
All horses spook at some point. I’ll give you some tips on how to help your horse when he is afraid. Keeping the horse under threshold and slowly building their confidence is key.
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All About Whips
Whips are a highly debated topic in the horse world. Much of the debate comes from tradition or opinion and not from science. I’m going to talk about the science behind how a whip functions in horse training. I’ll also cover some of the side effects that can happen when the whip is used improperly.
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What is Happening When a Horse Licks and Chews
There is a lot of myths around why a horse licks and chews. The behavior is often explained as a horse showing that it is relaxed. Licking and chewing is actually a calming signal. I’ll explain what a calming signal is and how they function.
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Thoughts on Relationship Training, Clinics, and the Movie Buck
I’m explaining the science behind ‘relationship training’ or getting a horse’s focus to get them to relax. Then I’ll talk about the different types of clinics and how they effect horses. Finally I’ll give my thoughts on the movie Buck.
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What Protected Contact is and How to Use it
I use protected contact quite a bit in my training, especially for horses who are fearful or display potentially dangerous behaviors. By using protected contact I can still train the behaviors I want, while we both can have the space we need to feel safe. Once the behavior is trained I can then...
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Teaching a Horse to Take a Treat
Most people overlook this critical piece of training with their horses. How the horse takes the treat and when are extremely important as this information tells the horse what behaviors are being reinforced. I’ll go into detail on how to teach a horse to take a treat properly and when to give the...
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Misconceptions About Positive Reinforcement (R+)
This week I want to cover some common misconceptions about clicker training, also known as positive reinforcement.
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Misconceptions About Natural Horsemanship, Negative Reinforcement, and Pressure
There are many misconceptions out there on how natural horsemanship, R- or pressure works. I want to clear up some of those ideas and explain what is actually happening when using those types of training.
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All About My Horses
I thought I’d do a quick episode about my horses. I talk about them sometimes in training episodes but never really gave details about them. They are very important to me and are the reason I’ve learned so much in the last few years. Later I’ll do an update on them in the future about where they...
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More on Classical Conditioning
I’m talking about more human examples on how we learn through classical conditioning. But I want to connect these examples to the horse world so we can see how easily connections can be made in the horse’s mind and how classical conditioning is always working whether we notice it or not.
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Thoughts on How to Make 3 Day Eventing Safer
I share my opinions on how we can make three day eventing safer for horses and riders.
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What Horse’s Needs Are
I recently saw a video showing some of the reasons why a race horse had the best care. I definitely disagreed with these reasons as horses don’t care about most of them. People tend to anthropomorphize with our horses. We need to instead look at what is really important for a horse from his point...
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How to Teach a Spin on the Ground
I’ll go over the steps on how to teach a horse to do a spin on the ground. This is an easy trick, that my horses enjoy doing. I explain how to teach it using R+ or R-.
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All About Fly Masks
I’m discussing the different types and kinds of fly masks. I also talk about the process of training a horse to wear a fly mask.
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Thoughts on The Wild Card Challenge Horse Starting Competition Training Methods
I watched the most recent horse starting competition recently and wanted to share my thoughts on the event. I’m going to discuss the competition its self and the training procedures used by the different trainers.
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What You Should Know Before Getting a Mustang
If you are considering getting a mustang either wild or trained there are few important things you should know first. I have gained so much from my experience with my mustangs. I want others who are interested and their horses to have good experiences and stay safe too.
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Cold Weather Behavior
Having a horse that has more energy or gets spooky durning cooler weather is pretty common. It can also be very frustrating. I’ll discuss some reasons why this happens and how to deal with it.
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The Science of Horse Training Part 8: Side Effects of Using Punishment and Negative Reinforcement
There are many unwanted behaviors that can occur as consequences of using aversives in training. Escape, Avoidance, Learned Helplessness, Coercion, and Aggression are some common issues that can happen. I’m going to give an overview on what these side effects are and how to avoid them.
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The Science of Horse Training Part 7: Punishment
In this episode, I’ll talk about the punishment side of the learning quadrants. Unlike reinforcement, punishment is effective when it decreases or stops a behavior. Lots of people use punishment effectively or ineffectively without knowing it. I’ll discuss what punishment is and the details of...
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The Science of Horse Training Part 6: Reinforcement
There are four learning quadrants. They are positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. I’m going to stick with the reinforcement side for this episode. It is common for people to get confused on what positive and negative reinforcement is and the...
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The Science of Horse Training Part 5: Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning is the kind of conditioning that you will see most often during training and it is more obvious than classical conditioning. Operant conditioning is when an animal operates on its environment to get what it wants or avoid what it does not like. Operant conditioning is…
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The Science of Horse Training Part 4: Classical Conditioning
Classical conditioning is happening all the time, for better or for worse. It is essentially learning by association. This can work in a negative way such as when you hear a bee buzzing right before you get stung. Now you associate buzzing with being stung. Or classical conditioning can work in a...
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The Science of Horse Training Part 3: Desensitization and Habituation
I’ll talk about what desensitization and habituation are and how they differ. Most importantly I’ll cover how they affect the horse during training. What we are usually doing and calling desensitization is actually not and is more flooding/ habituation. I’ll clear up what these terms mean and...
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The Science of Horse Training Part 2: Sensitization
I’ll talk about the role sensitization plays in training horses. I’ll also cover what unconditional and conditional reflexes are. These topics are the beginning of training a horse to respond to different cues, either with R+ or R-.
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The Science of Horse Training: Reflexes and the Startle Response
I want to do a series on the science behind horse training and behavior. First I want to talk about reflexes. Why they are important to clicker training and why normal reactions in horses can cause us so much frustration.
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Why Horses Kick
I want to talk about common reasons why horses kick and some ways that we can help to change that behavior.
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Book Review: Ray Hunt’s Think Harmony With Horses
I wanted to do another book review, this time on Ray Hunt’s book Think Harmony With Horses. It had some good ideas, but overall I preferred Mark Rashid’s book Horses Never Lie. Mark has very similar ideas but explained them in more detail.
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Giving Horses Vaccinations
I’ll go over the process of how I train a horse to get vaccines and how to give them.
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Review of Mark Rashid’s book Horses Never Lie
I recently read one of Mark Rashid’s books Horses Never Lie. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot, so I wanted to share what I though about it in a little review.
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Common Problem Behaviors and What They Really Mean
The reason that horses have problem behaviors is because they are either afraid or uncomfortable. When a horse feels like this they often default to using flight or fight behaviors, which almost all are what we consider problems. If the horse learns that a behavior, like biting, works to get the...
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Desensitizing a Horse to Eye Ointments, Drops, and Touch
You never know when a horse will need eye drops or ointment. I like to prepare them for this by doing desensitizing and targeting so that they will be comfortable when I need to handle the eyes. I’ll cover why horses become afraid when you hold them for these procedures and how to train a horse…
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Desensitizing a Horse to the Clippers
Lots of horses get worried when they have to be near the clippers. I will walk you through the process that I use to get a horse comfortable being clipped.
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The Need For Growth When Working With Horses: My Story
Lots of things that have been happening in the horse world recently have really disappointed me and made me think of how we can change the industry for the better. I go into my story with horses and how I have grown throughout the years in my training. Hopefully this will open some minds when...
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Horses That Chew Wood
This is a very quick episode talking about why horses chew wood and what you can do about it.
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My Thoughts on the Kentucky Derby
I just wanted to discuss some of the recent events that happened at this year’s derby. I’ll also talk a little about other horse sports and racing in general. These are just my opinions on racing. The overall ideas I hope to share are how to make the world better and safer for horses.
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Things to Consider When Buying a Horse Part 2
In part 2 I’ll be talking about feeding, environment, and exercise and how they effect the horse’s behavior. I’m also going to cover some red flags to look out for when buying and selling.
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The contemporary horsemanship podcast’s goal is the share horse training information with as many people as possible. Here I will explain and discuss many horse behaviors, training techniques, and riding tips.
HOSTED BY
Chandra
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