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 Posted: Fri Mar 9th, 2012 01:25 pm
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slipslider



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 My response is exactly as TN trailrider. The absolute easiest way is to pasture them with cattle. But of course that is not always an option. My other suggestion would be to buy a calf, you could keep it for a little while then sell. Unless you have away to expose your horse to a cow on a regular basis, then the only other option would be much more ground work to get your horse to use the thinking side of the brain instead of the reactive side, so you would have some control when you come across such animals in the future.
Will note however by having a cow you may get your horse conditioned to this, but it may do nothing when it comes to running into bears or deer or such on a trail. So I would still do ground training to get the horse using it's brain.



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