Stressful situations for horses not a rarity to calm them happens rather difficult. However there are several receptions which can help it to cope with a stress in an unfamiliar situation or a situation.
Instruction
1. The main thing what you need to pay the attention to is the attitude of a horse towards you personally. You have to achieve that the horse trusted you in a stressful situation. For example, if being with a horse, you hear noise, unusual and new to it, behave quietly. The horse will not begin to panic if he sees that you are quiet. Thus, tranquility of a horse will depend on your reaction to a stressful situation. It concerns also a trip on a horse. Try not to drive too strongly if you only train it. Your movements can be alarming at it and, as a result, will lead to a severe stress.
2. You cannot fence off a horse from stressful situations constantly therefore it is very important to accustom him to them. The horse has to get used to irritants which are alarming at it. Process of such training is called desensitization. It consists in constant and intended creation of a number of stressful situations with the purpose to accustom an animal to them. If noise are a part of everyday life for a horse, process of training will be rather fast. If you keep a horse in a quiet situation and he is not enough that distracts, try to create for him unusual situations as often as possible. For example, turn on the chainsaw when your horse is on a pasture. Over time he will get used not only to noise of the chainsaw, but also to any loud sounds.
3. There is also natural way to calm a horse. If to hang his head down, it will force it to relax. It is natural physiological reaction of horses. It is connected with the fact that in such position of the head, muscles of a neck and a back relax, and pulse slows down a little. As soon as you see that your horse is disturbed by something, hang to him the head, it will calm him. It is necessary to enter into practice such reception gradually. Incline his head the easy pressure upon its top part. Every time give it delicacy to encourage its actions.
4. Perhaps, you will get into a situation when the horse needs to be calmed during the trip on him. In that case you have to distract him and force to focus on certain things. For example, force it to go sideways or to turn on the place. Making such movements, the horse will wait from you for new teams. The stress, as a rule, passes in such cases and the horse calms down.
5. With what you feed him also can influence a condition of a horse. A large amount of starch and sugar in a stern can generate excess of energy which then is splashed out a rough image. The lack of protein can also cause similar reaction. If you are sure that the diet of your horse is rather balanced, try to add to it to a forage a little magnesium. In addition, this substance makes the weakening impact on muscles of an animal.