When entering a stall to put a halter on a horse, it's important to respect the horse's environment by approaching the horse easily. Discover the importance of walking with a horse at the horse's shoulder with help from a horse riding teacher in this free video on horse halters.
This is Maggie Connolly with Hawthorne Stables and we're going to go ahead and pull this horse out of the stall and we're going to show how we can grab a horse and put its halter on and bring him out. You always want to make sure when you're entering a stall that number one this is a horse's environment. This is their safe environment where they feel safe and we're actually intruding their safe haven so you always want to make sure that you ease up on a horse easily and that they always know that you're around or that you are getting ready to approach them. You don't want to do any sudden movements or jump up on a horse really quickly or within their blind side. As you can see Aliza is in here and he is eating hay minding his own business and what I want to do is let him know that I'm coming in and let him know that I'm aware. Now if a horse ends up turning his hind end quarters to you obviously you want to back up. You always want to be in an area where a horse can't pin you against the wall or put you in a compromised position. He is a pretty friendly guy and I am glad that he has given us this example because if you were to walk up on a horse and be in this position and you don't know the horse that's not a very safe place to be, okay? So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to take the halter out here with my lead rope put it all up on here, walk up to him with my hand out and hopefully maybe he'll be nice and just want to come over to us but I'm just going to put my hands on and let him know, come up here, just put my hand over here. I can go ahead and drop my lead, have him put his head. He is being a very good sport and then I can go ahead and walk him out. You always want to make sure when you are walking through a doorway with a stall or any type of gate or anything that you are coming through that you are walking through with your horse at his shoulder. You want to make sure that the horse never runs out in front of you or behind you and always make sure the horse is walking at your shoulder and then we can turn around and come in and put him in our cross ties. This is Maggie Connolly with Hawthorne Stables and that's how you pull a horse out of a stall and put on a halter.
