Re: RC: Nippy Babies

["Janet Benke" <qhjanet@hotmail.com>]

Jerri - my colt did the same.  After gelding the tendency to nip abated, but 
not entirely, and certainly not enough to allow me to walk freely in the 
corral with him behind me.  This year, he is two, after two months at the 
trainers', he is much better mannered.  At the start, he bit both of them:  
Not a good plan!  Since they have his sire, there certainly was a mutual 
vested interest in teaching respect.  I am not sure what the technique is, 
however.  As to rearing, the same.  I trust that it abates after time.  Does 
you colt have playmates?  I am convinced he needed playmates, and I was the 
smallest animal around, so obviously someone to "play" with.  I keep after 
him, though, and don't let him continue this.  The training has really 
helped.  He's much too large to get away with rude and dangerous behavior.


Rather than rely only on the popping, I think you have to move him away from 
you.  Do you lead him with a stud chain?  That helped.  There is "sharp 
object" method:  Carry a pin or something so that when he nips you, he feels 
the pin.  (I could never perfect this technique.)

good luck.  they only get bigger!

janetb
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