28 Dec Mayfield Kindred – Getting started clicker training a warmblood horse.
Today I started a 5yo warmblood gelding with his first lesson of Clicker Training. Mayfield Kindred is about 17hh and is going well in his dressage training with his owner. They asked me to start teaching him piaffe so I had to first teach him...
25 Jul Combining positive and negative reinforcement does not cause poisoned cues
There is a common misconception among animal trainers and clicker trainers in particular that combining positive and negative reinforcement is somehow unethical and will lead to a posioned cue. This is mostly the due to the results from the paper by Nicole A Murray on "The Effects...
24 Dec Proof and Consolidating a Behaviour
Proof and Consolidating a Behaviour When the horse is getting really good at responding to a particular cue we can then deepen the horse's understanding of this cue by doing lots of repetitions of this behaviour being performed perfectly. We should try to get 5-7 repetitions of...
26 Jul Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning (Trial and Error Learning) Behaviour = Consequenses- Operant conditioning forms an association between a behavior and a consequence.