John Chatterton - Affiliative Horsemanship

New DVD Released

Teaching horses to load on a horse float can be a huge challenge for horse owners who are either new to horse ownership or for those who have not yet learned the skills to read horses and understand their fears and how to rapidly gain their trust.

In this DVD John provides plenty of examples on how he teaches horses to float load. He demonstrates with horses who have float loading problems, but also shows the step by step process he uses to introduce young horses to the float.

Those who have learned the Ten Step program will have no problem teaching their horses to float load as each step of the program ultimately produces a horse and owner team which can go anywhere safely and with confidence. If you are looking for this sort of relationship with your horse, or any horse - we recommend following each of the Ten Steps.

We've been taught to believe that we need to be higher in the pecking order with our horses, which means we use body language to lunge our horses out of our space.

I believe this can cause a lot of problems such as flexing out of the circle, blanking out the handler, even cow kicking at the handler; leaning - which puts excessive strain on their legs, rearing and changing direction, rushing, turning and facing the handler when asked to stop instead of engaging the hindquarters to stop, and in many cases laziness.

John's work and results with lunging horses is astonishingly different and highly successful, because the nature of the relationship he creates is different. John teaches the handler to become the horses comfort zone, establishing trust. Instead of driving a horse forward using a whip or swinging a rope John teaches go forward signals to the horse and allows establishing its own natural rythym.

This DVD will show you how to communicate with your horse by using steps 9 & 10 of the John Chatterton Ten Steps program - what his students fondly call JC's Ten Commandments.

The debate over straight load or angle load floats has been going on in Australia since the angle load float was introduced more than twenty years ago. They refer to testing in the USA proving your horse travels more comfortably, will not scramble and is safer than the conventional straight loading system.

I find it interesting that everyone I've asked to see the results of these tests have not been able to produce a copy. So who has done these tests and how old are they?

John's latest DVD has just been released, offering advice and techniques to ensure your foal is weaned safely and with consideration for his/her potential as a confident partner for the future.

John strongly believes that correct weaning practices are vital for forming each young horses’ mental attitude for the future. Many problems that horses exhibit in later years, such as separation anxiety, can be attributed to incorrect and abrupt weaning practices, and he places great importance on careful handling of the weaning process.