Horsemanship From Ginny

In this episode, I talk about the Four Quadrants of Training.

While to actually train a horse you know need to know these terms perfectly, and training animals isn't as simple as knowing them and following them to a tee, understanding the difference between them is really important. Their uses, what they do, and personally, I don't think it's something talked about enough in horse training.

It gets talked about and argued about a lot amongst dog trainers, largely to be pedantic to win an argument that has no foundation and to try and get one up on someone that is having disagreements online. The terminology itself isn't that important. It what they mean and what it does in your training, understanding reinforcements and punishments and how they work is very important for understanding what you are doing and what you hope to achieve with your horse.

Horse training is an art, everyone does it differently, everyone disagrees, but most people regardless of whether you agree with what they are doing or not is at least trying to do what is best for the horse.

Regardless of what training methods people use, they will be using at least parts of the four quadrants of training.

In this episode I'm going to be talking about using treats during training with horses.

A strangely contrivesial topic in the horse world, and somethig I used to be very strongly against.

I'm going to be talking about Positive reinforcement, the issues that can arrise with it, which are largely why horse people are still so stead fast against using treats for training.

I talk about how to prevent these issues, and things to think about when using treats in order to make sure you don't face these problems, as preventing issues is far easier than fixing them.

So buckle in if you're into long podcasts, because they're what I plan to do!

This podcast is just an explaination of where I come from. What I've done through my life, and how I've got to where I am now.

Through my time with Ginny, how I came to use natural horsemanship as my main way of working with horses. The ups and downs I've had working on different yards, life situations that impacted how I was working with horses, my time away from horses and what I learned working with different animals, leading to how I found my way back to horses, and where I am now.

I do go off on a few tangents, but unfortuneately, that's who I am as a person, and my mind is often times all over the place when I'm not concentrating on a horse in front of me.

If you enjoy the podcast, I'd really appreciate a like and a comment.

Any questions you have will be answered in my fortnightly Live Q&A's, avaliable to my patreon members!

Well, I hope you enjoy listening to me ramble on!

This is just a little introduction into who I am, what I do and a general idea for what this podcast will be.

These podcasts will largely be a place for me to put all my thoughts about training, issue that are curently going on in the hore world, my opinions on them, and I eventually plan to get guests onto the podcast from profressionals in the industries, to complete novices asking the silly questions that more advanced people might not think to ask, or think to explain to people as it may seem obvious.

I'll be offering up chances for people to ask some questions, which I will go through and answer on Q&A Podcasts, and as I get better at doing this, I'll start to add some videos to the podcasts, but for now, these will be audio's only.

This is basically just a place for me to share my random thoughts and opinions, not all of them will be fully thought through, so for anyone who's interested in listening to what I hve to say, follow along, if you're not, hey ho, I'm still gonna just post my thoughts.