How To Train Your Miniature Foal

Do you have a new baby Miniature Horse in your life? Congratulations!

Babies are definitely different than adult horses, and they need different considerations when they're being handled. Remember, everything is new to them, so we have to teach them what we'd like them to know!

My family has been raising Miniature Horses since 1981, literally since I was a baby, and our horses routinely grow up to be happy, well adjusted horses who have excelled in a myriad of competitive and non-competitive pursuits: from champions in the show ring to valued therapy horses.

Here's how we've always handled our foals, demonstrated with one of the most precocious we've ever had, our precious "miracle baby", Wish!

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