Blog 18: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

• What are the best techniques to train a wild horse?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• One of the best techniques to train a wild horse is with patience, trust, and respect.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

• One of the best techniques to train a wild horse is with pressure and release/ approach and retreat.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• Is a natural way horses see if an object is safe or not.
• You can tell if horse is picking up on training or not.
• Can use with any type of training tools.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

• "Pressure Motivates Release Teaches" by Linda Parelli
• "Overcome Chronic Spooking" by Jennifer Paulson

6.  What other source supports your answer?

• My first interview with Marissa Shotwell-Tabke
• A horse training clinic on trailering by Clinton Anderson
• Horse training clinic on spooky horses by Clinton Anderson

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• This technique is natural way of horses getting used to things in their environment and you can tell when a horse is beginning to understand what you are training them to do.

Blog 17: Interview 3 Reflection

1. What is the most important thing I learned from the interview?  

• The person I interviewed was very helpful in offering advise with the things that I have been having issues on training my mustang to do like tie and to have her feet trimmed by a farrier.

2.  How has your approach to interviewing changed over the course of your senior project?

• I feel more comfortable meeting people I haven't met before and am starting to be able to think of follow up questions on things that they mention.

https://soundcloud.com/kiley-moore/interview-3

Blog 16: Independent Component 2 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

• I plan to shadow one of the trainers at the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center during the training sessions with the horses they work with.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

• I will be taking pictures during the sessions if possible I will take some video and I will also be taking notes on what types of training is done with each horse this way I can track how far the horses have progressed within the 30 hours of working with them.

3.  Explain how this component will help you explore your topic in more depth.

• This will help with getting to see different training techniques used in training as well as the different reactions of the horses.

4.  Post a log in your Senior Project Hours link and label it "Independent Component 2" log.

Independent Component 1

(a) I, Kiley More, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 31 hours of work.”
(b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component.

• I volunteered at Red Bucket Equine Rescue. My supervisors were Jenon and Shona.

(c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.

(d) Explain what you completed.    

• While volunteering at the rescue I was not able to work with the trainer during training sessions, but I was able to groom horses, pick out their feet, and take some of them for walks from time to time. The volunteers that have been able to help the trainer or with newly rescued horses did share information on what steps were taken and what they have found works best with the horses. They all told me that trust was the first step and by showing that you are dependable and consistent the trust and bond will start to be built with time. The horse just needs time, it also depends on what type of situation the horse came out of on how willing the horse will be to building trust with you.

Because I could not get pictures of me working with the horses I took pictures of me doing the work I did at the rescue with my horses. The horses I did get to work with pictures I took off the rescues website since the ones I tried to take from outside their stalls turned out badly. (I could not find pictures of Ladybug, Cooper, Frankie, Tilly, Nikki, Ohso, Ironman, or Justin.)

Picking out Freedom's feet.

Grooming Polka Dot after his roll in a mud puddle.

Dot enjoying his walk.

Acteur

Amadeus

Brinker

Casey

Confeddy

Deaglan

Faith

Kolcheck

Lilly

Lulu

Maximus

Mozart

Presley

Roxy

Spice

Tess

Freedom falling asleep while being groomed.

Plog 15: Lesson 2 Reflection

1.What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?

• That my activity worked because when I asked my sister to run through it so I could see what needed to be changed she didn't have issues with using her less dominate hand.

2. a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?

       AE       P          AP       CR       NC

• I would give myself an AP.

b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

• I felt like I got a bit repetitive and I had some trouble gaining everyone's attention after the activity.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?

• That people did see the struggle of using their less dominate hand and how it relates to training mustangs and horses in general.

4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

• Since I went over time last time I had intentionally made it short in hope to make sure I don't have the same thing happen again but ended up being a little short on time.

5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?

• I think it is going to be either pressure and release/advance and retreat or it will be desensitization.