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I think that you should get help from a professional to teach your horse to load and stand in the trailer rather than further jury-rigging your trailer to accommodate her.  You want her to be well-trained so that it's not an issue in case she has to be hauled by someone else.

 

I hired someone to help me with my mare's trailer loading issues, and she pretty much accomplished that in one lesson. 

 

I started doing Parelli, and had to re-learn to load my other horse by "sending" him into the trailer rather than leading him in.  It was really amusing because my horse got real reactive when the Parelli instructor tried to load him and he blew up.  She asked how I ever got him into the trailer - "I just walked him in."  I always had to tie him in to close the divider, but with a Parelli instructor, she made him learn to stand in place. 

 

I'm not saying that Parelli is the only way, in fact, the woman who solved my mare's issue had passed a couple of levels in Parelli, but she did not use his methods in resolving my mare's issues.  She walked my mare into the trailer and stood with her until she relaxed, which Parelli would never teach in the program.  So if a Parelli-only horse gets walked into the trailer, what happens?

 

After this, I believe the ideally the horse should be trained to be both "sent" into the trailer and "walked" into trailer and learn to stand in place once loaded so that in any emergency situation there aren't loading issues.

 

K.

 

 

 

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:32 AM, DONNA MARIE WINTERS <bob1andjohn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a CM 2 horse straight load with a ramp.  I now have a horse too long for comfort in the one side.  So I moved the divider over and secured it, and she fits nicely as slant load. But I do not have a way of keeping her head at the manger while I back out to lift ramp.

Don't want to tie her head as she has enough room to jerk back and scare herself and make a disaster.  I need something to pull across the back of trailer like a long butt bar or slant gate to close her in like a real slant load. then I can back out and lift ramp and drive off.

 

if someone holds her head through the manger feed door in front she stands  and all is well. but i NEVER have another person with me. 

 

I have started trying to put together the stall door mesh things that they use at shows and stuff.  but I can not pull it up fast enough and lead her and keep her at the front of trailer.