Training Your Foal
Raising a Foal: From Birth to Backing

By Renate Ettl
November 2002
Cadmos Equestrian
ISBN: 3861279045
128 pages, Illustrated
$52.50 Hardback

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Everything a Foal Has to Learn

Training a foal is no child’s play! It can be a fascinating experience, but it requires the correct mixture of experience, horse knowledge and intuitive feeling. Correct training follows from knowledge of how horses develop physically, mentally, and behaviourally. A horse which has been treated incorrectly as a foal may never be reliable. It may be prone to suspicion and panic reactions throughout its entire life. A well-trained foal is much easier to back, and its first hack will be a less risky undertaking.

In addition to the essential basic knowledge, the author offers tips and suggestions to ensure the successful training of your foal:
. imprint training
. first learning steps
. learning with mother
. weaning the foal
. problems of "adolescence”
. obedience and discipline
. first gymnastic exercises
. initial backing

Renate Ettl is an equine sports therapist and has bred horses for many years. She has written a number of equine books and writes regularly for equestrian magazines.


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