There has been much debate lately about the usefulness and the humanity of working horses in a round yard. The negative or anti side of the debate argue that working in a round yard is largely just chasing a horse until it becomes too tired or too annoyed to keep running and starts to look for ways to make the handler leave it alone or to avoid said work or annoyance.
Kendric our stallion working in a round yard.The same people also claim that one should delete the flight response in a horse not encourage it. They claim that using said round-yard is not good for helping the horses mind and is not good for “how the horse feels”.
Granted there are no doubt people out there who use a round-yard in the manner described above but again it is a case of the tool being blamed for its poor use.
Many of the correspondents crying foul on the subject of round-yards claim life for the horse is much better in Continue reading Round yard Pro’s and Con’s
