Foal Training is very important for young horses.  Begin teaching a young horse at an early age eliminates hard lessons later.  Each horse is handled according to their experience and lessons are expanded and built upon. The young horse is taught to stand back politely when their food is put into their bucket, and yield to the handlers space. Frequent tying lessons and grooming sessions build on the manners learned at a young age. Our goal is a polite weanling who, above all, respects its handler, and can be handled with the lightest of touches.

We introduce our young horses to new things in a playful way, which makes them enjoy and look forward to their interactions with people. And by using short frequent training sessions the foal learns quickly and painlessly during its most trainable time of life, without over-taxing its attention span. 

Lessons taught to young horses are the following:

Sessions are "self-paced" for foals to allow learning to occur within their natural curiosity and attention span.

Imprinting is not a substitute for handling and training your new foal. With supervision and moderation, imprinting merely provides a window of time in your foal's life that can be used to make the horse easier to handle and train.  You need to continue a young horse's training so they become a respectful horse.

Rates:

Halter Training: at the end of the first 60 days, the foal will accept the halter & lead. (All foal training is done through a gentle, positive reinforcement method. We feel this is import to encourage responsiveness to human requests & enhance future trainability.) - $300 per month.

Kindergarten: at the end of the first 90 days, the foal will accept the halter, lead, tie, lift feet for the farrier, bathe, & clip.  - $300 per month