We got our first horse late last summer. She is a three year old wild mustang named Rosie. At this point she is unridable but we have hopes that maybe one day .......... The people we got her from had her in a coral with another horse and 4 goats. When we first got her you could walk up to her and do just about everything except ride (pet, brush, clean feet, etc). About a month after bringing her to our place where she is in a coral that is just under 1 acre, she decided to flex her attitude and became untouchable. During the winter we put up a 50 foot round pen and now that the weather is finally pretty nice here we decided that enough was enough and that it was time to get Rosie back in line.
Since neither my wife or I have had any experience with training a horse we have had 3 different trainers over to evaluate Rosie. One admitted that she has never worked with mustangs before and she was afraid that Rosie might be to much horse for her. The other two guys told us that since the price of horses is so low right now why not buy a "good" horse and not waste our time or money with Rosie.
Those comments kind of pissed me off and since my wife is really nervous about getting into the round pen with Rosie, I decided on monday to take over Rosies training and get her to the point of being saddle broke. After only two days (about 3 hours total) I have Rosie to the point that all I have to do is point in a direction and she will go, she will now yeild her hindquarters without hesitation, and I now can rub and pat just about anywhere on her body and head.
Sorry that I have rambled on so much to get to my question. How much round pen training would you do in any one day? Now that the days are longer and we are progressing so nicely I want to keep going out to do more training.
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