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January 13, 1900
Blackfoot News
Blackfoot, Bingham County, Idaho
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Practical advice recommends halter-breaking colts at weaning time to simplify training, reduce resistance, and prevent injuries compared to breaking older horses.
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Halter-Breaking for Colts.
It is an excellent practice to break a colt to halter at weaning time, for the younger the colt is taught to lead, the more easily is the operation accomplished. Youngsters halter-broken at weaning time are more than half harness-broken when of age for service. It is quite an undertaking to round up a 3 or 4 year old colt and break it to halter, which feat is necessary before the process of harness breaking commences. At that age they are so strong and frequently make such a protracted and stubborn fight that the animal is spoiled. It not infrequently happens that the horse rears and breaks its neck in the operation. All danger may be avoided, and the labor necessary to educate the colt to lead will be minimized by halter-breaking at weaning time. A colt will soon yield to the tension of the halter if pulled at an angle, and it quickly learns that to follow the breaker relieves it from pain. The resistance is brief and the subjugation complete.-Ex.
It is an excellent practice to break a colt to halter at weaning time, for the younger the colt is taught to lead, the more easily is the operation accomplished. Youngsters halter-broken at weaning time are more than half harness-broken when of age for service. It is quite an undertaking to round up a 3 or 4 year old colt and break it to halter, which feat is necessary before the process of harness breaking commences. At that age they are so strong and frequently make such a protracted and stubborn fight that the animal is spoiled. It not infrequently happens that the horse rears and breaks its neck in the operation. All danger may be avoided, and the labor necessary to educate the colt to lead will be minimized by halter-breaking at weaning time. A colt will soon yield to the tension of the halter if pulled at an angle, and it quickly learns that to follow the breaker relieves it from pain. The resistance is brief and the subjugation complete.-Ex.
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Instructional Advice
Animal Husbandry
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Halter Breaking
Colts
Weaning
Horse Training
Harness Breaking
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Breaking colts to halter at weaning time eases leading, prepares for harness, avoids spoiling older strong colts, prevents neck-breaking risks; pull at angle for quick submission.