New Mini-Horses

[stano40]

In the past few days we took in a pair of mini-horses, Mother and daughter. Mother is 36", 250 lbs and the daughter is 31" 200 lbs.

They are very attached to each other. From what we learned they were bought from an elderly lady who had them running around on an 100 acre farm. The lady was beginning to work with them when she fell ill and could no longer care for them. That's were we stepped in to socialize them.

We got them home and placed them in a stall for two days. We only had one stall to use and it afforded us a chance to see how they reacted.

The mother will be easier to handle and socialize again but the daughter is a brat. If given the opportunity she will bite you and if you get near and try to touch her halter she will kick you.

This pair is our first horses and before we took them in we asked a whole bunch of questions from other horse people and everybody had different opinions.

It's these opinions we are relying on including any research on them we can find on the web. I would appreciate any helpful tips you may have to ease them back to people and mini-horse society.

Thanks,

bob

The brat: Rainey

The Mother: Misty

 

[goats&moregoats]

Beautiful!! Lots & Lots of love and even more patience. Building trust is the key and it will take a lot of time. She did not become like this in a day so the fix won't happen over night. in my opinion do not rush them. Let them have their safe space and just feed and water them for a few days, maybe a week or two. Then keep them in a small enclosed round pen. keep food and water area to one side, they should learn to approach you when feeding. Attempt touching them gently at this point, pay attention to their body language, you should be the one to break contact if at all possible(on a good note). Don't push Rainey though. It will come with patience, time & love.