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Imprint training, is That the minute the baby is born you are there touching it everywhere, eyes, ears, face, feet, etc. Then the smell of humans are imprinted on them and it supposedly makes them easier to handle as they grow. I had a halter on her the day after she was born was leading her around in 2 days. By they time she was a month old I was ponying her off her mom (I rode the mom and lead the baby at her side with a lead rope).

She has always been very easy to teach, I would like to know if it has to do with the imprint training or if she was just going to be easy to handle. We have had a few that were not so easy.

To see her birth I slept in the barn for 10 nights. Although we had had babies born here before it was the first we got to see born. The mare was my horse and I wanted to be sure she was OK. It was her first. We have had babies from this stud and he does seem to always put a good mind in his offspring, so I don't know if it is her breeding or that she has been handled from the beginning. We always sold the rest of his babies before it was time to break them. They were easy to train to lead. We have had other foals from other studs and mares and they were hellions. But they also had not been handled much. So who knows. But I will always try to imprint them after this.

Becky