#halter training

CUTIES

It's time.

Snowflake has been back in the pen with Golly for a little while since weaning time is done, and is now helping me teach Golly that walking on the halter isn’t so bad. They’ve both been doing great, and we even went for a short walk into the pasture and back a couple days ago!

Getting acquainted !

We FINALLY found a halter that fits her.. today she wore it for the first time. She doesn't understand it, but with more training hopefully she'll get the hang of being led by it.

Another halter training video using a clicker. This is Billy, he's 13 weeks old. I worked with him for a few minutes just before this video, but aside from that he's never seen a halter. And yeah, he picks it up pretty quick.. I never knew goats were so smart!! I've been using +r exclusively. I might do a bit of -p or -r in the future but I really like using the clicker with them. They really seem to respond to it. Hopefully since they're learning with it as babies, they'll respond well to it as adults. And anyways, they're just babies.. it kills me to see them in pain, or scared! Or even just not getting what they want, lol. They're definitely gonna be spoiled brats if my mom and I keep treating them the way we do 😂

Have a sloppy video of me trying to juggle a long line, whip, clicker, treat in one hand, a phone in the other, and cueing up Rush for halter. He's reaching up!!!!!

Just started volunteering and I get to work with this beautiful baby! ❤ She is just starting halter training ✨