IMPRINT TRAINING OF THE NEWBORN FOAL offers an easy-to-follow, step by step approach to handling and training newborn foals, in addition to a lot of techniques and exercises that aid the foal in halter training and later in performing riding maneuvers. Imprinting may also be defined as a learning process occurring soon after birth in which a behavior pattern is established. The newborn foal is imprinted to follow and bond with whatever large object looms above it at the time of birth.
Dr. Miller’s methods lay the foundation for teaching a horse most of what it is going to wish to know to serve as a useful animal for the remainder of its life. Early training can, in an amazingly brief time period, assure an ideal relationship between horse and human, with the horse bonded and submissive to the human. In addition, the horse will be desensitized to the on a regular basis frightening stimuli that most often elicit a flight reaction in the young horse, and which account for the frequent injuries that afflict horses and the people who work with them.
The book includes nineteen chapters beginning with initial imprinting training, then following with subsequent sessions, halter training, performance basics, response reinforcement, problem prevention, and sections on racehorses, mules, and brood mares.