just got a yearling ( hes soooo lovely)

[sammie]

hi all am new to this but ive just bought an irish draught yearling hes gelded dark bay an soooo pretty but apart from the obvious settling in stage and wondering where i shud start in his general training any help wud be gladly appreciated xxxx :)

[theprancingpony]

since he's just settling in, start with getting to know him. brushing him and leading him around is good, and giving him rubs.

one thing that's helpful with young horses is to touch them all over every day. this means his face and ears, neck, legs, belly, etc. ahem, that encludes his sheath too. :D (eventually). obviously take things slowly, but he should get used to people touching him, so he's not one of those horses that doesn't like their ears touched.

i've never trained a yearling, but from what i hear you should also desensitize him to things, like saddles and tack and all that. i don't know if people start putting tack on as a yearling, but i almost bought a 3 yo from a woman who had never been on him. i guess it's just personal preference, i'm just going by what i've heard and read.

i hope i've been of some help?

[sammie]

thanks for that it was of help to me... ive always ownd older horses so having a yearling is new to me.. but when i went to view him i did actualy pick his feet up and felt his ears and all over his head to make sure he wasnt head shy or anything hes a lovely sweet chap so i dnt think i shud have too many problems with him ( i hope) lol thanks alot xxxxxx

[iluvmyhorse]

hi all am new to this but ive just bought an irish draught yearling hes gelded dark bay an soooo pretty but apart from the obvious settling in stage and wondering where i shud start in his general training any help wud be gladly appreciated xxxx :)

he sounds totaly cute!
start by like just handelin like brushing and then saddles and lunging and then at like 2 bridle and 3.4 ish back them and school them

[sammie]

so shud i be lunging him at this age (18 months) was told not to lunge him untill he was around 2 ish... any help on this matter wud be appreciated lol xxxxx