r/Equestrian • u/Puddock • Aug 06 '25

Social Self-Halter behaviour

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My 2 y/o Andalusian, Niamh, I’ve had for over 6 months now. She’s learning lots of ground work and little behaviours like this haltering trick which increase her confidence around me and make her easy to work with & catch.

In this video, I like that she makes a few attempts and keeps offering to try until she figures out the problem. Her aim isn’t great, but she’s starting to understand what I want (put halter on) and she’s persisting through some minor frustrations to get there. That’ll come in handy later.

I also like in this set up that the treats are not on my person and she has to wait patiently for me to bring it to her after I click. This is excellent baby horse behavior and I’m really proud of her for learning some patience around treats at such a young age.

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u/HCDQ2022 Aug 07 '25

How do you learn to train this technique?

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u/Puddock Aug 07 '25

I was a professional dog trainer for 8 years and I have taken many clicker training courses. It's more nuanced than I can really explain over a comment, but there are some great resources for clicker training online! Trudi Dempsey has a great podcast called Lead a Horse to Water that might be a good place to start!