Fascinating about the recall w/ pairs...for treats! In your more recent videos you mentioned the continuous feeding system. Have you noticed a difference in the sounds of their stomachs, i.e. a lessening of that sloshing gastric acid sound as they trot around? Gorgeous stallion!!!
Warwick - you are the most amazing communicator/connector! I don't have any horses, I don"t ride horses, But I love horses and I love watching you communicate and really connect with them. And I apply those teachings to how i face myself in meditation and also in working with people...customers, co-workers, and employees I need to teach. Such wisdom here and Such Kindness. Thank you for this!!!!!
@@FluxyMiniscus He is SOOOO GOOD!!!! I have learned so much from him. He's so observant and knowledgeable. So kind and empathetic. So caring. A total and complete amazing gift to learn from.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. He hooked straight on when you walked in didn't he :) One thing I would say stands out about horses memory is that powerful experiences become almost hardwired into their memory & are very difficult to overwrite if they happened to be a bad one. I am just working with a mare who used to be someones pride & joy but then was neglected for a few years. It's a treat to see her starting to remember the good times.
Very bad experiences are keenly remembered because they go straight to fight or flight instinct. The trick is to get the horse to defer to you as the strong confident leader instead of going straight to fight or flight. If you are giving good clear direction and are relatively calm the horse will respond favorably.
I have been so inspired by your training techniques and that you spend so much time, with the heart and mind of this breed. Your short videos have kept me up with the mental and physical part of staying in touch with my own affairs with our horses. Reminds me how important it is to have the solid foundation but the possibility always to rethink things, always keeping the hope very healthy. I could go on about your training, but yours sets the bar of what I like and how I love to interact with our passions. God bless! Really enjoy your videos and hope to make it to a clinic.
Like you have said, one needs to work on each of the basics with the horse until they are very good at it, then move on to the next item. Nice job in the round pen. So many horse people do not do this 'hooking-on' process. And they pay for it down the road. I do this process first thing. It is very important.
In regards to memory, how long do horses remember extremely traumatic events? I know an older rescue mare who lost her foal to a wild dog attack, in which she suffered serious injuries trying to save the youngster. After this tragedy, her behavior became so sad and erratic that she was turned over to a rescue program. With new owners and a new environment Scarlett seems quite calm now, and is always happy to receive a carrot or apple treat. But I'm curious if those awful things stay with them?
According to Temple Grandin, there is NO 'erase' to fear memories. Time, good training, and better memories may override the bad memory, but it is always there, and may re-surface is they are placed in a similar situation.
One of factors horses are do not remember a lessons if also because their emotional nervous system was in a place of anxiety and consequently their thoughts where elsewhere.
I don't know if you've got sets of CD.'s to buy, not the monthly or yearly viewing options. I think you would have a good market, especially if you start small. If you do have them could you direct me? I've been to your site, but I might have missed them. Thank you
Initial assessment of a horse's intelligence failed to take into account a horse's nature-- they are grazers, not foragers. Consequently, mice and other creatures scored higher, because such animals were motivated to learn how to get their food, while horses had very little social grasp of 'hunting food'. Once tests were modified to better fit the nature of grazing animals, the intelligence of horses became more obvious.
agreed! horses are much smarter than mice, though mice are smart. The only reason they are "conventientally smarter" is their will to please. thats normally how humans measure intelligence of individual animals and animal species. dogs are intelligent, as are horses due to their will to please, but mice find food off their will to live not please. Hope that makes sense too! how we measure intelligence is different than actual intelligence. sad, but we measure intelligence on how willing they are to do what we ask to please us
I have a friesian yearling and a gypsy vanner yearling..both are colts...My friesian colt is growing big fast. He likes to bolt from me when on lead and I realize that I am not getting that critical hook from him in the round pen the way you are. I am excited to work him today and practice the techniques...My one question.. Will in tact yearling colts respond as quickly as grown horses and maintain the good behavior if your methods are applied?
Purchasing a horse soon who will be just turning 1 yo. Can it ever be to early to get a horse to join up in the round yard. What would you recommend I do with him first. Thankyou
Allow the young one to be in a herd setting. Horses are the best teachers of horses. Then when they have learned how to be a horse you can introduce them into the human/horse world. Join-up first. Then desensitize to motion. Then desensitize to motion with sound.
Locking-on................hooking-on...................join up..................All the same. Watch Warwick Schiller and how he does it. And watch Monty Roberts and how he does it. Then develop your own style.
Lee Alexander hormones and sex drive will often make stallions zero in on other horses...unless they have been started properly, like Warwick is demonstrating here
Lee Alex That's coz stallions are a pretty distracted lot. They can choose to forget what they learn or act up at any time. At least that's been my experience with stallions
Oh they learn quick all right, and they never forget. You need to be real careful what they learn, as they cannot tell good from bad. We can, but they learn bad things just as easily. Example. A young horse shies in a certain direction, and unseats a rider who perhaps should not be on it in the first place.(It takes a good rider to make a good horse. It takes a good horse to make a good rider. Beginners should ride only the old ones, leave the youngsters for the experts.) Anyway this youngster shies off a rider, and never forgets how he got rid of that rider. The first time would be totally accidental, but for the horse, he counts it as a win, something he has learned. That shy sticks, it will always go the same way, and if you can't go with it and stick to the horse, he's learned how to dump his rider. A better rider may overcome the issue, but he'll always try that shy to see how good you are. And that's only talking about a shy. How about the other tricks, rearing, bucking, bolting, and jacking up? A horse is not pro-active, he can't think ahead. He is reactive, responds to stimulus. Learns from results. I had no idea you could teach a horse to read symbols! Thanks Warwick, you are just about at the top of the whole game. There is always more to learn.
we tried putting our filly with other horses a couple times and shz a very quiet horse and both times, she was picked on , she got bitten or kicked a few Times from the other horses especially during feed times, so, now I'm scared to put her with other horses! but now shz gotten attitude, like nipping at us, or being pushy when we try halter her! any tips to help curb those? she's just over a year old!
Fascinating about the recall w/ pairs...for treats! In your more recent videos you mentioned the continuous feeding system. Have you noticed a difference in the sounds of their stomachs, i.e. a lessening of that sloshing gastric acid sound as they trot around? Gorgeous stallion!!!
Warwick - you are the most amazing communicator/connector! I don't have any horses, I don"t ride horses, But I love horses and I love watching you communicate and really connect with them. And I apply those teachings to how i face myself in meditation and also in working with people...customers, co-workers, and employees I need to teach. Such wisdom here and Such Kindness. Thank you for this!!!!!
Humbled to be a part of your journey.
He’s the best IMHO
@@FluxyMiniscus He is SOOOO GOOD!!!! I have learned so much from him. He's so observant and knowledgeable. So kind and empathetic. So caring. A total and complete amazing gift to learn from.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. He hooked straight on when you walked in didn't he :) One thing I would say stands out about horses memory is that powerful experiences become almost hardwired into their memory & are very difficult to overwrite if they happened to be a bad one. I am just working with a mare who used to be someones pride & joy but then was neglected for a few years. It's a treat to see her starting to remember the good times.
Very bad experiences are keenly remembered because they go straight to fight or flight instinct. The trick is to get the horse to defer to you as the strong confident leader instead of going straight to fight or flight. If you are giving good clear direction and are relatively calm the horse will respond favorably.
How interesting... I like your spontaneity and your knowledge... all your videos are unscripted, natural, appropriate and accurate.
I have been so inspired by your training techniques and that you spend so much time, with the heart and mind of this breed. Your short videos have kept me up with the mental and physical part of staying in touch with my own affairs with our horses. Reminds me how important it is to have the solid foundation but the possibility always to rethink things, always keeping the hope very healthy.
I could go on about your training, but yours sets the bar of what I like and how I love to interact with our passions. God bless! Really enjoy your videos and hope to make it to a clinic.
Nice to see the lick, chew, and yawn when the horse stopped. Releasing the dopamine, or happy juices as I call them.
Like you have said, one needs to work on each of the basics with the horse until they are very good at it, then move on to the next item.
Nice job in the round pen. So many horse people do not do this 'hooking-on' process. And they pay for it down the road.
I do this process first thing. It is very important.
Just love Warwick ur approach 2 every horse u work with!!!!
Omgoodness he's gorgeous!!
In regards to memory, how long do horses remember extremely traumatic events? I know an older rescue mare who lost her foal to a wild dog attack, in which she suffered serious injuries trying to save the youngster. After this tragedy, her behavior became so sad and erratic that she was turned over to a rescue program. With new owners and a new environment Scarlett seems quite calm now, and is always happy to receive a carrot or apple treat. But I'm curious if those awful things stay with them?
According to Temple Grandin, there is NO 'erase' to fear memories. Time, good training, and better memories may override the bad memory, but it is always there, and may re-surface is they are placed in a similar situation.
Very nice!
One of factors horses are do not remember a lessons if also because their emotional nervous system was in a place of anxiety and consequently their thoughts where elsewhere.
I like the smaller one to start with, then like to go to the bigger one.
I don't know if you've got sets of CD.'s to buy, not the monthly or yearly viewing options. I think you would have a good market, especially if you start small. If you do have them could you direct me? I've been to your site, but I might have missed them.
Thank you
Initial assessment of a horse's intelligence failed to take into account a horse's nature-- they are grazers, not foragers. Consequently, mice and other creatures scored higher, because such animals were motivated to learn how to get their food, while horses had very little social grasp of 'hunting food'. Once tests were modified to better fit the nature of grazing animals, the intelligence of horses became more obvious.
agreed! horses are much smarter than mice, though mice are smart. The only reason they are "conventientally smarter" is their will to please. thats normally how humans measure intelligence of individual animals and animal species. dogs are intelligent, as are horses due to their will to please, but mice find food off their will to live not please. Hope that makes sense too! how we measure intelligence is different than actual intelligence. sad, but we measure intelligence on how willing they are to do what we ask to please us
Judi & Macaulay- both excellent points. tfs
I have a friesian yearling and a gypsy vanner yearling..both are colts...My friesian colt is growing big fast. He likes to bolt from me when on lead and I realize that I am not getting that critical hook from him in the round pen the way you are. I am excited to work him today and practice the techniques...My one question.. Will in tact yearling colts respond as quickly as grown horses and maintain the good behavior if your methods are applied?
My wife says you know what you are talking about. It looks like you are enjoying your work with horses.
Warwick - where did you obtain the round pen panels from?
Purchasing a horse soon who will be just turning 1 yo. Can it ever be to early to get a horse to join up in the round yard. What would you recommend I do with him first. Thankyou
Allow the young one to be in a herd setting. Horses are the best teachers of horses. Then when they have learned how to be a horse you can introduce them into the human/horse world. Join-up first. Then desensitize to motion.
Then desensitize to motion with sound.
When you say "hooking on" in the round pen, what do you mean? It isn't a term I've heard before.
Locking-on................hooking-on...................join up..................All the same. Watch Warwick Schiller and how he does it. And watch Monty Roberts and how he does it. Then develop your own style.
How does one do the hooking on, if one does not have a round pen?
Diana Black I have a new video on my subscription site that addresses this. subscriptions.viddler.com/warwickschillerAll the way at the bottom.
Thank you Warwick :)
WarwickSchiller I tried to go to your site. I guess you have a new one? eroheygraham@gmail.com
ask two
He's beautiful
That one in the video is probably 50', the one next to it probably 65'.
Hooking on it what i did with him when I took him into the round pen.
I don't see why it matters that he's a stallion. They're just horses like any other horses.
Lee Alexander hormones and sex drive will often make stallions zero in on other horses...unless they have been started properly, like Warwick is demonstrating here
Lee Alex That's coz stallions are a pretty distracted lot. They can choose to forget what they learn or act up at any time. At least that's been my experience with stallions
Oh, he's pretty. I like.
Aww beautiful horse carnt believe though how noisey that honking is ha ha
Oh they learn quick all right, and they never forget. You need to be real careful what they learn, as they cannot tell good from bad. We can, but they learn bad things just as easily. Example. A young horse shies in a certain direction, and unseats a rider who perhaps should not be on it in the first place.(It takes a good rider to make a good horse. It takes a good horse to make a good rider. Beginners should ride only the old ones, leave the youngsters for the experts.) Anyway this youngster shies off a rider, and never forgets how he got rid of that rider. The first time would be totally accidental, but for the horse, he counts it as a win, something he has learned. That shy sticks, it will always go the same way, and if you can't go with it and stick to the horse, he's learned how to dump his rider. A better rider may overcome the issue, but he'll always try that shy to see how good you are. And that's only talking about a shy. How about the other tricks, rearing, bucking, bolting, and jacking up? A horse is not pro-active, he can't think ahead. He is reactive, responds to stimulus. Learns from results. I had no idea you could teach a horse to read symbols! Thanks Warwick, you are just about at the top of the whole game. There is always more to learn.
we tried putting our filly with other horses a couple times and shz a very quiet horse and both times, she was picked on , she got bitten or kicked a few Times from the other horses especially during feed times, so, now I'm scared to put her with other horses! but now shz gotten attitude, like nipping at us, or being pushy when we try halter her! any tips to help curb those? she's just over a year old!