Re: crupper help!

["DeSoto Saddle" <desotosaddle@voyager.net>]

Here is how I go about getting a horse use to a crupper when they get a case
of tail clamp. I use an old training saddle that I don't care about that I
have installed a crupper ring on. Adjust the crupper out as far as possible
so it hangs down below the final intended spot under the tail. You first of
all want them to just get use to something dangling under the tail. Put the
saddle and loose crupper on them an turn the horse out in a paddock, round
pen or even make them wear it in the stall for a few hours a day. Depending
on how they react to the crupper depends on how fast over time I keep
tacking it up a little. Keep tightening it up a little at a time till you
actually have it a little overtightened. That's what happens when you go
down hill, it tightens up, so you don't want the horse to all of a sudden
get the shock of tight when you are out there on the trail. Last of all when
you have it over tight, take the horse out and lunge him in both directions
and at all gaits. You will probably have to work with a breast collar on or
it may pull the saddle back too far and just loosen up the tension on the
crupper defeating your purpose.

If you have or can get an old horse harness and remove everything except the
saddle, or girth sircingle and the brittching and crupper straps. This works
well for getting a horse use to straps around the tail.

Marilyn Horstmyer
DeSoto Custom Saddlery
(231) 775-5612
desotosaddle@voyager.net
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:55 PM
Subject: RC: crupper help!


> Tiffany D`Virgilio tiffshorse@mindspring.com
> I can't seem to post from my email address, so I am here as a guest:(
> I need to use a crupper for my mare, but she is not to hip to that idea.
Everytime I get it semi-on, she just about sits down and dies. She is even
funnier when I try to remove it and she clamps down so tight I can't get it
off. Help! Any tips to ease her into the change would be very much
appreciated. She will let me work on her tail to braid, brush and wash it,
but crupper-no way! She also will sit down if the hose gets under there
during her bath. She was bred four times and lost three foals before I got
her, so I really had to be gentle around her tail and vuvla area at first.
She was very sensitive!
> Thanks, Tiffany
>
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