Rachel Kerr
Equine Behaviour Workshops, come and join us!
We've started running a series of workshops looking at equine behaviour. The first one started with 'How horses learn' and we looked at...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 28, 2021
- 2 min
How to start Clicker Training your horse.
A few months ago we published an article called 'How to start Positive Reinforcement through clicker training your horse. We are starting...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 28, 2021
- 1 min
Why do horse buck?
Last year during lockdown I was inspired to deepen my learning of equine behaviour, so I studied a module in Equine Behaviour from the...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
Meet Lisa, number one Buddy fan and super vet!
Tell us about yourself... I’m a veterinarian. I work with companion animals and exotics. I have a special interest in animal behavior and...
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Rachel Kerr
- Apr 18, 2021
- 5 min
The darling of the barn, meet Dale!
For those who have been fortunate enough to have crossed paths with Dale he soon becomes a firm favourite and has been a reliable member...
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Rachel Kerr
- Apr 4, 2021
- 6 min
Welcome to Lincourt Stables, Marilyn and Danilo
Marilyn started having lessons a few months ago and recently bought Danilo, a 10 year old Andalusian gelding. Tell us about yourself I’m...
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Rachel Kerr
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
Welcome to Lincourt Stables, Peter & Diva.
Peter joined Lincourt Stables in the autumn of 2020 and started having lessons with Patricia. He has just leased his first horse,...
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Patricia Lincourt
- Feb 25, 2021
- 2 min
Release, Relief, Reward
The title of this essay is above. Release, Relief, Reward. As a rider I have not separated these terms in my head until recent years. I...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jan 5, 2021
- 5 min
Part 1: How to start using Positive Reinforcement through Clicker Training your horse.
Let’s start at the beginning, what is Positive Reinforcement (R+)? Have you heard of Positive Reinforcement? What about Clicker Training?...
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Patricia Lincourt
- Jan 5, 2021
- 5 min
Part 2: Getting started with Clicker Training - how to ‘Charge the clicker’
There are some very important steps to getting started with Clicker Training, one of which is getting your horse to associate the sound...
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Liparit Hambardzumyan
- Jan 3, 2021
- 3 min
Why are horses good for people?
This is a blog post guest written by one of our students at Lincourt Stables, Liparit Hambardzumyan. Liparit and his brothers have been...
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Rachel Kerr
- Dec 6, 2020
- 4 min
Lesson #6: Horses are horses, right?
Your horse is a horse, not a human. Obvious? Yes of course! Horses don’t remember things like humans do, they don’t think logically to...
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Rachel Kerr
- Sep 2, 2020
- 2 min
Lesson #5: A creative journey in finding new teaching methods
The past 6 months have been a challenge in many ways, but also an opportunity to try new things and be creative. One of the new elements...
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Rachel Kerr
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
Lesson #4: We are always learning! What 2020 has taught me so far, in equine terms.
What 2020 has taught me so far, the view of an equestrian
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Rachel Kerr
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Lesson #3: Target practice - cones are your friend :)
We’ve moved on a little from your classic lunge lessons and on to using target practice on the ground and then in the saddle. The...
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Rachel Kerr
- Jun 7, 2020
- 4 min
Episode #2: Our first lessons, the lunge!
We start on the lunge, the idea being that this would be a good way for me to get the feel of a big moving horse like Bob while not...
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Rachel Kerr
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Episode #1: The Bob diaries...Positive Reinforcement from the heart of Los Angeles.
Before we start let me say a word about this diary…this is my experience of learning to work and use positive reinforcement methods to...
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Rachel Kerr
- May 22, 2020
- 3 min
Friday Thoughts - teaching tricks and having goals
Below are some Friday thoughts to ponder upon...and that I ask myself when there is time to reflect. Please leave a comment below, we...
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Rachel Kerr
- Mar 25, 2020
- 5 min
Motivating your equine partner (and yourself) with positive reinforcement
I wrote this blog several weeks ago, since then things have changed a great deal and we now find ourselves dealing with a new way of...
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Rachel Kerr
- Mar 7, 2020
- 2 min
Attending the Desert Circuit at Thermal, a beautiful place to be!
Attending the Desert Circuit at Thermal with Terra NOva to help educate around R+ positive reinforcement methods.
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