gem86
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Post by gem86 on Apr 29, 2012 8:34:31 GMT
I only hack out every now and then because I feel like I should. I don't enjoy it and my horse isn't thrilled by it. She doesn't mind so much in company but otherwise she just minces along gawping at anything vaguely scary. She does get excited doing different schooling exercises in the school though (random pole work, jumping exercises, interval training etc) so I don't think she's damaged by not hacking much. I do wish we had regular access to a hilly field though for fittening work  |
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Post by iluvmyponies on Apr 30, 2012 12:05:39 GMT
I have 2 very tempermental mares who hate hacking, one runs backwards & the other spins round & jumps onto the road! & we have no off road hacking so we have no choice but to not hack out. We also have no school to ride in atm so if the ground is like it is now, we can't do anything. But when it is ok to ride on, we just have to ride in different fields & in different parts so they don't start to anticipate anything. If you have safe roads/off road hacking I would definitley get your mare out. Our old Mare did this at first too - didn't get the concept you kept going forward. She whipped round, was a general nutcase out hacking. We told someone who came to ride her 'She hates hacking' - this woman being a rider of racers for a local race stud, said, let me have a go. She took her on longer hacks as a suppose to 15min ones, & did things to keep her interested, took other horses with her, led her up the road some times, some times rode her, etc. Took a while (over a month, being hacked several times a week) but eventually she got better & better. It taught her a lot & it helped her go forward, etc & looking back in the end she far more enjoyed hacking. Just do keep trying! I 100% agree some just do not hack - but if they haven't previously been taught to hack properly then thats the reason they don't want to hack out. They don't like hacking so I'm not going to make them do something they don't like doing. I've been trying for 3 years with my coloured, she would much rather go round in circles & my fell is the same. |
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Post by LMSmith on May 1, 2012 13:40:27 GMT
I must admit I enjoy hacking but we have to go out onto a busy country road and this is not suitable for my show pony as she has a tendency to bolt!
My section C was alright hacking before winter but we didnt get out much over winter and the last coupe of times I have taken him out he has been a handful.
I agree that horses need to get out and see more but the amount of times I have had my foot wacked by a wing mirror is crazy. Its ok for the lucky people who have of road hacking but for some of us its just not an option.
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Post by fruity on May 3, 2012 15:54:04 GMT
My boy lves to school, think and be challenged but no more than three days on the trot. I do hack him, but he is nightmare - as tense as a concrete wall, further away from home we get the more tense and silly he gets. He's a big fella and some of his antics are not fun. I can;t decide (we're a new partnership) if he's scared, babyish or naughty???
I do agree its necessary and in the past my horses have primarily hacked, our BSJA horses were rarely working in, but schooled naturally over post & rail fences, logs and hedges (even the odd park bench, naughty naughty!!) and it suited them. But reading this, it obviously doesn't suit all horses.
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