Then we decided to do more desensitizing and got an inflatable dinosaur suit and slowly worked her up. We started with just wearing the suit deflated and she took this very well. Then we took the fan that inflated the suit and used the noise and air from it to desensitize her. This time she also took this with very little reaction. So we finally inflated the suit and she was a little worried but we eventually got to the point where we were leading and lunging here with it on. I continued working on the lope as well as working on getting her to keep going. I started this by doing figure eights and alternating between inside and outside foot while turning. Then went on the rail and when she tried to turn out I used the inside foot while also turning to the inside to keep her from pulling to the outside. I then took this to the trot and did the same thing. I then worked the lope and like my other days of loping she was very insistent to not lope so I had resistance to getting her up to speed. Some of the resistance included hopping, turning, and stopping. I pushed through this and worked her on the lope by getting to the lope and rewarding her with allowing her to slow herself down. This made it easier to get her to the lope as she now believes that when she gets to the lope she gets to be rewarded so she is less resistant to the ask for the lope. So I ended here as she was listening well. Popper and the dino #dinosaur #dinocostume #horses #horsesoftiktok #jurassicpark #funny #fyp ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7335580503669509422?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7352725777701455403 Popper is back with her friends#ranchlife #horsetraining #horses #horsesoftiktok #playtime #pasture #cow,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7352736209422093599?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7352725777701455403

How have you grown as a horseman? Popper has taught me to be more patient. She's energetic and happy but she has some quirks that require me to really think how my actions will effect her. She likes to do her own thing sometimes and I have to learn how to connivence her that my plan is a good one too. For instance the lope: she isn't very excited to go much faster than a trot and so she literally throws a temper fit. It's my job to not react to the emotion she throws but I also have to prove to her that just loping a little way is in her best interest. How has your challenge horse changed? She had a good weight and trusted people at first so the biggest change has been her gaining muscle and knowledge. Being young every thing is new to her : first shoes, first clippers, first saddle, first ride etc. It makes it nice because there aren't a lot of bad experiences I have to retrain rather just a bunch of holes in her knowledge that I have to teach her. She has learned that she can be loved but not have to be completely in your space and push you around to get scratchings. How has your confidence been influenced? Popper has neither shaken or strengthen my confidence in training horses more than I started. She is the 6th horse that I have trained from the ground up and overall she has been pretty easy. How has it inspired/changed your desire to work in the equine world? Horse are something that I do for fun, like an extra curricular activity. I have never considered making it a career or working in the industry. I enjoy training horses and riding but I don't and haven't in the past planned on working with horses beyond high school. With parents that train horses and give lessons I have developed good skills over the years and being able to put them to use while helping a horse learn positive skills to better their lives is rewarding.

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1. After watching the way Popper handled the Dino Costume it fave us an idea of a Jurasisic Park themed freestyle. I don't know if I'll ride her in the costume but I defiently forsee doing some ground stuff with it. We have played with a bunch of ideas including having my family in other costumes as well.   2. Up until this last month when Popper injured herself we were making really good progress for both her and I. I'm hopeful that once she is mostly recovered that we don't have to do a lot to get her back to that point. I plan on doing a couple local shows with her just to help prepare her for having to listen and work in a different place than home. 3. When Popper came to us one of her biggest issues was her feet. She would stand really nice for trimming but hated the noise and vibration of the shoeing. She has gotten a ton better here. One of the other challenges with Popper is that she needs kinda a firm hand. She is very sensitive and head strong and often she tries to push through the halter or bridle to do her own thing. We have found that on the ground it is really important to really get after her for doing this. Under saddle I have struggled with just pushing her through these "temper fits" and not trying to stop them. Honestly I have found that she is very smart but a little on the immature side which is probably due to her breeding. 4. I want to incorporate some of the ground driving skills that we have worked on because she got really good at it. She is pretty fearless to things in her environment so desensitization training has been really easy. Trailer training presented a big challenge and the farrier. Both of these areas have improved a ton. At this point she loads herself. The shoeing is still something that we are working with though now she can stand there and let us bang the hammer on the foot without jumping up. We are just working on her patience here. 5. I walked into this competition knowing i wasn't going to adopt her. She is a sweet horse but not one that I foresee myself owning. I actually already have a couple people that are watching her progress that are interested in her. I keep having to remind them that we have to go through 4h state before she is ready to go. 6. Upload a quick 1-3 minute video giving an update on you & your horse. This video will be used on the Homes for Horses social media pages.  https://youtu.be/xphNzYtjzHw\

I have continued working on the lope as well as working on getting her to keep going. I started this by doing figure eights and alternating between inside and outside foot while turning. Then went on the rail and when she tried to turn out I used the inside foot while also turning to the inside to keep her from pulling to the outside. I then took this to the trot and did the same thing. I then worked the lope and like my other days of loping she was very insistent so I had resistance to getting her up to speed. Some of the resistance included hopping, turning, and stopping. I pushed through this and worked her on the lope by getting to the lope and rewarding her with allowing her to slow herself down. This made it easier to get her to the lope as she now believes that when she gets to the lope she gets to be rewarded so she is less resistant to the ask for the lope. So I ended here as she was listening well. This month she had a mishap that we still don’t have a clue what caused it but on the back left leg she had a chunk missing. Luckily it was on a spot that there were very little muscles or arteries so it should heal just fine, but she will have to be on stall rest for the rest of this month and into March. We also noticed that she was dropping weight and having a hard time chewing so we took her in to check her teeth and see if they were causing her pain while eating. Apparently it was a problem regarding that when horses are born the have their teeth and as the grow they lose their molars and when they don't fall out quite right they leave behind what are called milk caps. This can be a problem because they can grind unbalanced while eating and cause irritation. So the vet ground them down and then he also pulled out a wolf tooth which is different then canines because they are closer to the molars instead of the canines which are positioned closer to the front. These teeth can sometimes cause issues when the bit is in the mouth and there is no longer any domestic need for them so it is always best to pull these. Popper goes to the dentist #horsesoftiktok #horses #cute #float #veterinarian #teeth #dentist #toothfairy #txhomes_forhorses ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7336750230840380718?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Learning with Popper #txhomes_forhorses #horses #horsesoftiktok #equestrian #learningisfun #lope #lead ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7338162994502798638?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 #progress #horse #horsesoftiktok #horsemanship #horsetraining #4h #txhomesforhorses #horsetrainerskid #maturing #learning ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7340454470775590175?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

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Popper BBP part 3 #horsetrainerskid #txhomes_forhorses #4h #txhomesforhorses #teaching #horsemanship #horsetraining ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7329554712620043550?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

This month I haven’t been able to do as much work with Popper as I have in the past. The weather has been rough. It’s either been below freezing for days or so muddy that it would be dangerous to ride past a walk and I would risk her slipping on the slick mud.  I did still managed to continue working with the driveline and while it wasnt much i still was able to do a little bit. We’ve decided to use the driveline in hopes that it would help her with her response to the reins when I ride. This is a training tool that is similar to using a wagon and helps with teaching turning and lunge lining. Did this for 2 days and the first time she was very responsive and took it very well. I then used it to help with lunge lining. This helps with the pulling away from you while lunge lining. The last couple weeks this month the weather has been much better and I’ve been able to work on a couple pieces of the BBP. We really haven’t had a reason to work much on trailering since we haven’t had to take Popper anywhere. At the meet and greet event she loaded with only a little encouragement, but that was in our big slant load trailer. Currently that trailer is being worked in so we had planned on using the two horse that we have on property. It’s pretty small and my goal was to be able to stand outside the trailer and send her in for safety. It took about 2 hrs of working with her before she would go in, stand without turning around and then back out. It really only took about 45 minutes of work to get her to send in but she kept trying to turn around so she could see out. Luckily she didn’t want to jump out immediately but it was a fight getting her to just stand. We worked hard with her respecting our body language and not pulling and shoving her nose around. By the end of the lesson she would get in and stand until I walked in and backed her out.  Whenever Popper gets upset or would rather not do something her go to is shove around with her nose on the reins or rope. It’s the main reason we started working on getting her used to the bit.  Normally we like to have our horses to able walk, trot, and lope willingly in both directions before going to the bit but Popper is going to need a little extra convincing. First bits #horses #new #firsts #teaching #horsetraining #horsemanship ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7328848731615399198?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Trailer Training Popper,https://youtu.be/iyScFlwrldM Ground driving Popper #grounddriving #horsetrainertips #horsemanship #horsesoftiktok #horses #horsetraining #horsetrainerskid #teaching #,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7317756992649497887?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

1. It is important to feed high-quality hay to help provide fiber and proper nutrition for growing good muscle and fat. Often it is the main source of vitamins and minerals that the horse has in their daily diet. Feeding hay to your horse also gives their mind and their gut something to work on throughout the day 2. Without feeding your horse hay you it may experience digestive problems such as ulcers. The horse's gut is working every time they move and needs something to work on or ulcers form. Mentally it helps the horse not to be bored. Bored horses develop a multitude of bad habits like cribbing, and weaving, 3. False. During the winter months, it is very important to provide energy to your horses as they need it to put on fat and stay warm. Naturally because of the extra energy needed to keep warm the horses will tend to need more food to maintain a healthy weight. 4. How to measure hay for my horse, how much hay to give my horse, and how important it is to feed hay. 5. My horse Popper is about 850-900 lbs and at 1.8% of her body weight she needs roughly 15.3lbs of hay. She has access to 24/7 high-quality Tifton round bales with the rest of her herd mates. Because not everyone always gets along we provide three different locations for them to eat from that way there isn't one horse that does not get the required amount of food. 6. Popper had good weight when we got her in so we have had to ensure as we ask her to expend more energy in training that she has kept that weight. The only main difference between what she looked like before and what she looks like now is the gained muscle. She is a young horse and the additional fluctuations from growth spurts we have to watch closely as well.

I managed to mount Popper in bareback, English, and Western. The process was about the same for each with it mostly consisting of throwing the saddle and blanket on her over and over again until she is desensitized to the saddle. She was extremely fast at desensitizing with it only taking a couple of ties to desensitize. I started with bareback because when I first got on her she was confused at my weight so I didn't want to overwhelm her. I have also managed to bring her to the trot and a couple of steps at the lope. I worked on her turning and her stops so that I could have some control over her. I used a bosal because I have yet to attempt to put a bit on her so I didn’t know how she would react. Then I did the English to slowly progress her into a heavier saddle.  I then took her out on her first trail ride around our land and I was happy with how she took things as she didn’t have a care in the world even when rabbits ran across the trail. However, most of this confidence came from the fact that she was following her friends around. I worked on the trail for a bit and brought her back in and she had no problems dismounting and taking off the saddle. I also attempted to teach her to lie down. I did this by first bringing her a sand pit then I taught her to kneel by picking up her front hoof while facing forward and asking her to move towards me causing her to kneel then releasing and praising her. Unfortunately, we were unable to get her to lay down so we need to work on it another time. Step one in lay down.#horsetrainertips #step1 #laydown #horses #horsemanship #tricktraining #tricktraininghorses ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7317725638239063326?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Popper Saddle prep #txhomesforhorses #4h #homesforhorses #popper #slowandsteady #horsetraining #horsetrainingtiktok #horses #horsesoftiktok #saddling ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7295150520732355870?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Poppers first trail ride #4h #txhomes_forhorses #txhomesforhorses #horsemanship #trailride #horsetrainerskid #horsetrainer #horsesoftiktok ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7298845769866480927?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

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The next day was bath time. She came to us with pretty braids in her long hair but they needed to be redone which meant washing.  I ended up doing a little work by accident because we found she was scared of the hose when it was running water. Everything is new to her and getting a wash down is no exception. As long as the water was in front of her where she could put her nose on it she was fine but when it touched her feet she got pretty scared. So part of her training today we spent working to desensitize her towards the water, showing her it wasn't so bad and letting it run on her until she calmed down and let us wash her. Learning to stand quietly tied is something we work on every time we have her out. She doesn’t pull back but she likes to dance in circles. Once she knows what you want her to do she is pretty quick to comply, like standing still while braiding her hair. The fifth time I worked with her I stayed on the ground to work on her sending, forequarters, and hindquarters. I did this by also teaching her to lunge on the line and making her stop and face me. She took a while to fully understand this concept so I just kept at it. I also used this exercise on my other horses and it worked well. This consists of lunging her in a circle and then moving the hip so she faces me then letting her walk up to me so that when we try to catch her she won't run away. We had a farrier come down and give her front shoes because our land is rocky so she needed shoes and it started out with her not caring about it when he trimmed them. However when he started banging to put the nail in she would pull back and try to get away. so we ended up drugging her so we could put the shoe on properly without her hurting herself. Afterward, I took a small hammer and used it to desensitize her to the banging and after a couple of tries she responded well. Poppers first set of shoes #tryagain #horsetraining #horsemanship #horsetrainingtiktok #horsesoftiktok #farrier #farriersoftiktok #txhomesforhorses #4hproject #hammer ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7283695024712338731?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Popper part 3 - bath time #atfirstiwaslike #funny #fyp #firsttime #bathtime #horsetraining #horsesoftiktok #horsemanship #horsetrainingtiktok #horsemanship #texas4h #homesforhorses #4H #ross #friends ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7280123273839463711?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403 Poppers first ride #firstride #first #prep #prepwork #horsemanship #horsetrainertips #txhomes_forhorses #4h ,https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7300744123106020638?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

Foreign objects, pressure on limbs, weird noises, & large amounts of activity around them 1. Foreign objects: rely on groundwork to help by taking the horse over to the foreign object | Pressure: start with desensitizing the horse to pressure on its head by applying slight pressure to both the poll and the lead rope | Noises: rely on groundwork to teach my horse that the sound of the clippers is nothing to be afraid of I’ll turn a pair of electric clippers on and the horse will probably start to get anxious. Instead of letting the horse look at the clippers and get nervous, I’m going to start working the horse around me in a circle at a trot | Activity: put your horse in the thick of the activity, letting them get accustomed to all the movement, noises, and unfamiliar people and things. If the horse starts getting worked up, the best thing to do is the groundwork 2. You should release the pressure because if you try to force your horse to confront the object they may get more frightened than before and this may lead to the horse losing its cool and potentially freaking out ____________________________________________________________________________ 1. lick & chew and the head to lower both can show that the horse is relaxed and there are at least 1. 3 more 2. it is important to let the horse come closer as this reinforces to the horse that the object is not as scary as it thought and helps the horse relax. This keeps the horse from freaking out and potentially hurting you

I couldn’t even begin to imagine what kind of horse popper was. There wasn’t a lot of information from the 4H team on her. I finally got to see a picture of her on our way up to Fort Worth the day before. I was excited that she was on the smaller size, and even more excited that she was a youngster. Working with Popper the first day we covered basic aspects of what is expected of a beginner horse. This was at the HSNT arena where we picked her up from.  This allowed me to have some more insight into what she knew already. She listened well and picked up on what I asked of her at a fast pace. I have high hopes that she’ll continue this fast learning so I can quickly teach her what she needs to be taught. The rest of the day I learned her dietary needs from the folder given to me by her. After giving her a couple days to adjust to her new home, I worked with her while I was on my other Horse Roxy. I used this Roxy as a saddle horse to get her used to the feel of me being above her and desensitizing her to touching her head a bit. She wasn’t a fan of me putting my hand above her so I worked on putting a halter while I was still on my saddle horse. This allowed me to reach over and around her to let her desensitize to being towered over and not be so skittish about me reaching up and over her head. We ended the training with teaching her how to be ponied around in the round pen. https://www.tiktok.com/@sh_trainrideshow/video/7280961240933993770?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7289624638317135403

My name is Jaydon Bowen and I got paired with Popper for my Homes for Horses project. Popper is an almost 2-year-old filly and she has a popping personality. She is super curious and always interested in what you are doing. I have started her groundwork and she is proving to be very smart as well.  I have been riding for a little over 9 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. I have ridden both Western and English and definitely like English the best, mostly because I like the thrill of jumping. My mom and dad train and sell horses as well as teach so I have learned how to start and train horses as well. So far I have trained over 6 horses and I feel confident about how well I will be able to train Popper. I currently have three horses, Roxy, Bell, and Popper, and all three of them are in nice shape and are very good at what they do. Roxy, my jumping horse, has started this Fall’s shows off to a good start.  I have just about got first at every jump show I've been to. Originally Roxy was my mom's horse. She let me start jumping Roxy on a whim now she’s never getting her back.  We started with cross rails and I have worked her up to 2’9”. Roxy LOVES jumping. Bell was a little project pony I had been working on to earn some car money. Already we have been able to use her in our lesson program.  Popper is going to be such a fun horse to start similar to my last 4H futurity horse.  Really looking forward to recording her progress.

1. Something to clean a wound, 2. if she gets hurt I first find and clean the wound so I can see the extent of the damage I take pictures so that when I can send them to a vet to make sure they aren't mortally wounded then use corona ointment, some pads, and vet wrap I cover the wound 3. by making sure she is properly desensitized to all first aid procedures 4. some drugs for horses can affect anesthesia, surgery can sometimes be the only way to fix colic, how to find the capillary refill, how to find the dehydration 5.