Correct and Collect Horse Training

Correct and Collect Horse Training It’s not about making them perfect today, it’s about helping them to do better tomorrow.

It's been so busy here the last week with all the new arrivals that I'm super behind on editing and uploading videos. Ho...
07/06/2025

It's been so busy here the last week with all the new arrivals that I'm super behind on editing and uploading videos. Hopefully I'll have time to get to those soon! 😅

06/28/2025

Well hello gorgeous. 🤩

05/28/2025

Someday I’ll be all caught up on old videos. Not today but someday. 😂 Kelpie here decided that the day before she went home was the perfect day to completely coat herself in mud, I gotta say it was almost impressive how much dirt she managed to squish into her coat. Another day saved through the power of bath wands. Wish her first bath had been with warm water but you gotta do what you gotta do. Hopefully we’ll have that option here pretty soonish. But we made do, got her clean and feet trimmed up before she went home the following morning.

05/23/2025

We’ve officially been here for 2 years now and just finished fencing in pasture number 4. Rehabbing this place has been an insane amount of work but it’s finally all starting to come together. ❤️

05/20/2025

Now just how am I supposed to get any work done on the fence with a view like this? 😫

Finally starting to work through some of the photos...from last summer. 😅 I cant believe how much Dingus has grown just ...
05/16/2025

Finally starting to work through some of the photos...from last summer. 😅 I cant believe how much Dingus has grown just since I took these pictures of him. He's still a very derpy baby, but now he's a much taller and wider derpy baby. 😂

05/12/2025

It took well over a month but this guy is finally reaching for the bit instead of the sky. 😂 The bit aversion was strong with this guy but the abundance patience has finally paid off. No more ladders required for tacking this one up. Getting on him may be another story. 😅

05/03/2025

I feel like something that we don’t talk enough about with our horses is what to do when they make mistakes. The knee jerk reaction most people have is to correct the horse harshly for not paying close enough attention and to do so we light a fire under them to correct them. The problem is that doesn’t make the horse pay attention better, it just teaches them to be reactive when accidents happen. Which should be the LAST thing you want from your horse. Ever.

Instead of lighting a fire under them I prefer to use a negative cue marker to get their attention back on me. In this video we’re working on sending, direction changes, and the early stages of collection. At the beginning of this clip you can see kyrie misunderstand which direction I want her to go in. And afterwards doesn’t acknowledge my cue to redirect her attention. Here is where the negative cue marker comes in. The mark gives her a clear “you are doing something wrong” cue and gives her a chance to pause and figure out what she did and how to correct it.

Giving the horse an opportunity to calmly stop, and look to me to see what she did wrong, opens her up to better communicate and puzzle solve independently rather than just react (overreact) to a louder cue. Sure I could get louder in my body language and force her to turn the correct direction. But that does nothing to help her be a better partner, or not a more reactive one that’s paranoid about what I may do. That does not build a stronger connection nor communication between us. In the video you can see Kelpie stop and take a closer look at my hand. From there she can see which direction I wanted her to go in and corrects herself without further input from me. This is how we encourage our horses to refocus on us and ask what we want, rather than punish their lapse of attention and encourage dangerous reactivity behaviors.

At the end of the day it’s far more important that our horses look to us for guidance when they make mistakes, rather than be frantic about giving us a different answer than what they thought we wanted. The goal should always be to make our horses as safe to be around as physically possible. To do so it’s more important to have a foundation based on iron strong communication rather than a need to have military level obedience. Always remember that your horses WILL sometimes make mistakes, and what matters most is how you train them to handle those mistakes, not how quickly they rush to correct them.

For anyone that adopted from the 2022 Twin Peaks gather I finally got around to posting their corral photos. 17 albums i...
04/21/2025

For anyone that adopted from the 2022 Twin Peaks gather I finally got around to posting their corral photos. 17 albums in total from the PVC corrals, Litchfield corrals coming soon!

One American good boy is looking for a new address! For the low figure of whatever is in your right front pocket you cou...
04/01/2025

One American good boy is looking for a new address! For the low figure of whatever is in your right front pocket you could adopt this very special 15.7 unicorn! Only known allergies are cheap hay, mattresses that are not memory foam, sweating, Tuesdays, lighting that doesn’t make him look fabulous, and children. He has also been known to breakdown in whole body hives on days he has not been told he’s pretty. This can only be cured with 6 dozen peppermints and 2 hours of belly scratches.

He does have some minor special needs. Every morning MUST begin with an extra large chai latte, no fat, extra whip, 2 pumps caramel, 17 pumps peppermint, 4 pump dark chocolate, 8 scoops Java chips and a pinch of sea salt on top. Afternoons he gets his daily massage and facial, and in the evening he requires live classical music to be played while he eats his 17 flakes of organic imported alfalfa hay.

Application fee is two strips of bacon and a coconut. 🥓🥥 please apply in the comments below and tell us why you would be a good match for this very special boy.

03/31/2025

Galahad had his first very first dental appointment and everyone got to discover what a lightweight he is with sedatives. 😂 even a tiny dose had him almost on the ground. And of course serafins gummy eye WOULD clear up the day of his appointment. 🫠 why not?

03/28/2025

So it begins. 🥲

Address

Oakland, OR
97355

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Correct and Collect Horse Training posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to Correct and Collect Horse Training:

Shortcuts

Share

Category