Working with a herd of horses—from two to many more—takes careful consideration and planning. There really is such a thing as "herd mentality.” To further complicate the training environment, horse trainers usually work with only one or two horses from the herd at a time. There is no shortage of advice about herd training, but not much of it is rooted in positive training or accounts for equine clicker training. Since clicker training is not as well known among horse trainers as it is among dog trainers, it can be difficult to be "heard among the herd." For example, most horse owners have been told to avoid using food around horses, but that old wisdom, often doubled down on for herd training, can be counterproductive. Plus, apart from clicker trainers, thinking about how a set of behaviors taught to individual horses can be employed to make managing the herd far easier is not common. In this Dem-OH!, you will see Peggy Hogan, accompanied by trainers Monty Gwynne and Anat Shalev, demonstrate a wide variety of individually trained base behaviors that can make training a herd safer and more effective. Training set-ups, the antecedent arrangements, for managing more than one horse even if no base behaviors have been trained, will also be explained. Buckle up as Peggy and friends help change the “herd mentality”.

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