Least Resistance Training Concepts'
RENO, NV 3-DAY WORKSHOP DEMO AND ADOPTION
at the
Western States Wild Horse & Burro Expo
Reno Livestock Events Center
August 20, 21, 22,
Descriptions of Planned Activities
Last Revised 8-17-04
For background information regarding this event and a schedule,
please here.
The following activities are planned for this event. The techniques shown are designed for use by typical adopters who don't necessarily have advanced horse gentling skills.

(A tentative schedule for these activities can be viewed by clicking the link above.)

You can jump to a detailed information sheet on each topic by clicking on each topic heading.

Gentling Wild Horses - 101

  • Basic approaches when working in a pen with a wild horse.

  • Desensitizing wild horses to humans.

  • Reducing stress and generating curiosity.

  • Making first contact.

  • General safety principles.

The Bamboo Pole Method

  • Making first contact with a bamboo pole.

  • Desensitizing the wild horse to touch.

  • Using the pole to get "up close and personal."

  • Itchy spots and touchy spots.

  • General safety principles.

The Sliding Neck Loop & Quick Halter

  • Putting a safe loop on a wild horse.

  • Teaching the horse to yield to pressure.

  • Intermediate sliding loop techniques."

  • Making a "quick halter."

Using a "Safe Squeeze" chute

  • Safe squeeze safety issues.

  • First contact in the squeeze.

  • Generating responses, not reactions.

  • Intermediate safe squeeze uses.

Basic Round Corral Techniques

  • Generating curiosity, not flight.

  • Wild horse: no lead vs. on the lead.

  • Drawing flight prone horses.

  • Multiple humans in the round pen!

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