Foal training is a delicate process that requires patience and proper handling techniques. The legendary King Ranch shares how it handles its horses at a young age ➡️ https://www.aqha.com/-/looking-back-60-years | American Quarter Horse Association

We imprint our foals and then take them through the exercises in the Foal Training Series. On average, it takes roughly six weeks to take a foal through the series. Once a foal knows the series, then we review the exercises every couple of weeks until he’s weaned. When it’s time to wean him, we’ll bring him up to the barn and spend several weeks refining the Fundamentals groundwork exercises (minus roundpenning). Once the foal knows the groundwork exercises well, just before turning him back out

So much adorable mare foal behavior in this video. First you see Izzy anticipate danger when she sees a person enter and immediately nudges her baby Wildheart to get up on her feet. When she doesn’t immediately get up she is more insistent. Horses are prey animals and babies are taught the important lesson of being able to immediately get going if a threat appears. Wildheart gets up but takes a moment to follow her mother so she calls to her to come outside. When babies wake up they often immedi