Rudy’s First Day At Home!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nHe was pretty awesome and calm his first day at his new home. The owner of the barn where I’m boarding him at and I were waiting for him outside the stables. Fortunately, I was able to arrange a flat fee transportation of Rudy for a very reasonable 500$ from his previous home over 3 hours away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was SO excited when the trailer pulled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had asked Rudy’s previous trainer (she had worked with him for the 2 months prior to my purchase) to bring some food with her so he had a couple days worth of feed to tie him over and slowly make the adjustment incase the brands that we got him weren’t exactly the same. Also this way the trainer was able to show us exactly how much he was getting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Getting A Young Horse Settled in A New Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rudy was SO curious about everything in this new place. The trainer lead him out of the trailer directly into his new stall. He was going to be sharing a stall for the first month with the stallion at the barn (while the stallion was outside during the day, Rudy would be kept in the stall and vice versa). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The point behind this was so that he could get used to the barn, his new environment and me without getting to overwhelmed with all the other horses. While he was outside, he was kept in a seperate paddock for this very same reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the Saturday he arrived, I just took Rudy for a walk around the indoor arena. He was a little bit spooked by the mirrors, the different sounds of the wind and on alert when another horse came into the arena. After our quick walk (not longer than 5 minutes or so) I put him in his stall. I hung out with him for a while, gave him some carrots and then headed out. I had a lot to buy and I really wanted to give him some time to acclimatize to his new surroundings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Figuring Out What To Work On <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When putting together my young horse training plan for Rudy, I needed to see what was important to work on for him in the beginning. So, I came back the next day (Sunday) hoping to do a little bit of work with him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I took Rudy out to the arena to work on some in hand work. I did manage to get the bridle on him; however, it was not easy. It took about 4 good tries and some struggling up and down the aisle of the stables to get it on. The trainer had told me that she had never had any issues tacking Rudy up so I was thinking to myself at the time that it was just me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regardless, I put it on my list of what to start working on. I was hoping that it would turn out to be a quick fix though. A matter of Rudy getting used to me and feeling more settled and relaxed in his new environement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n