Halter training a 1 month old filly

Thank you, the talking I already do a great deal of but I hadn't thought of hand feeding her. I will give that a try maybe it will help get her to trust me and socialize her better.

Indeed the biting part would not be good. I did try a few times with the food it didn't work. So I talked to her and stood in the stall with her for a long long time just letting her know people are ok but still she was not wanting us to touch her head. It's harder because the owners waited for a few weeks before trying to halter her and the colt if they had started when she was just a few days old I'm sure it would have been much better as she was easier to handle. Today though she finally came to me and was standing next to the gate wanting me to scratch her neck and back for the first time she let me pet her and love her for more than 2 minutes lol. Honestly I think I got a good ten minutes of contact with her today. Tomorrow I'm going to go work with her a bit more.

I think that talking to the horse is a good idea but not hand feeding. Yes they will come up to you if you have a treat but after a while they will start to try to bit you and that is not a habit you want to teach a baby. I suggest that while you are is the stall you hold on to her and don't let her get away from you. this will teacher that you are the boss and she will learn some respect.

Well our boss was given the mare because her previous owner runs a thoroughbred farm and he had too many horses but I believe he plans on taking fancy when she's old enough to train for racing :(. I really hope he doesn't but it's a possibility.

I hope not either, but maybe she's not cut out for racing and will wind up in the pleasure class of horses, tho she does sound high strung.

Oh yes she is high strung. She's a sweety but she definitely has her energy. The vet said something about her being knobby kneed so she might not be able to race after all YAY! I think she'd be a great hunter she definitely has the determination to learn and go.

Thank you that's very good advise and I will for sure put it to good use. My husband did manage to halter her one week ago but it was not an easy process. She ran all over and hid behind her momma, her mom figured out what we were doing and was actually quite helpful in cornering little Sammy so that we could get a hold on her. My husband was able to get the halter on Sammy and boy did she raise heck when he did. She kicked and jumped and through a fit but once she realized that she was getting nowhere and she tired herself out after about 10 minutes she finally stood still and my husband pat her and scratched her and let her know she was doing good then after about 2 minutes of that he let her loose. I did find an easy way to get them to walk though was to halter the momma and lead her around. We did that with Jack the colt and his mom. Jack did great he struggled a bit but as long as mom was walking he was right behind her with the lead on, then we I stopped with mom my husband pulled Jack towards him with the lead and so Jack got the idea and is now doing great.

Lauren thank you for your helpful advice about the butt rope and making her stand still. It has worked amazingly well. The owner came and saw both her and the little colt and he haltered her within a minute man you can tell he knows his stuff. She seemed to know that her little fits were not going to work with him, and behaved amazingly well, since then we have been working with her and I have applied the butt rope and the making her stay still and she has come to learn that when she does good she gets lots of attention and now after we take the lead of she even follows us wanting more loves LOL. The little colt is doing great as well but amazingly he puts up more of a fuss than Fancy does and I really thought it would be the other way around LOL. When leading them we stop every so often, have them stand still for a few seconds, and as soon as they are quiet we give them loves and walk them again.. it's working beautifully! Thank you so much.