I am an professional animal trainer and I offer sheep training help online. If your child is training a sheep for show, this is for you. Most show sheep are still trained using methods that are very old: more pressure, more force, more repetition until the animal stops resisting. A sheep that freezes, collapses, jumps,…
When your family joins my full sheep training online course, you are not left alone with the video material. All course participants are warmly welcome to a private Facebook group that supports everything taught in the course. The teaching videos and structured lessons are found on my website, on the course content page. The Facebook…
One of the most common triggers for fear and stress in sheep is restricted movement. This often occurs during routine handling, such as: From a human perspective, these methods are often seen as practical and efficient. From the sheep’s perspective, they remove its primary survival strategy as a prey animal: the ability to move or…
There are basically two ways to make a handling situation “safe”: The biggest difference between these two approaches is the sheep’s emotional state. When a sheep feels safe, everything becomes calmer. When a sheep is afraid, it resists, panics, and the risk of injuries increases. If the sheep doesn’t understand what is happening and cannot…
Trimming sheep hooves standing is possible but only when the sheep is calm, balanced, and understands the handling. In this video I am trimming Pilvi’s hooves. She has lived with us since she was a yearling. So we did not start the training when she was a lamb, but that’s okey. You can train an…
The most common way people teach halter use and leading usually looks like this: The halter is put on by force and the sheep is guided by pulling on the rope. The sheep is allowed to jump, pull, walk, run forward, back up – while the rope stays tight the whole time Another common approach…
A sheep’s emotions guide its behavior. A calm animal learns, trusts and cooperates. A fearful animal resists, pulls and may panic. When we learn to recognize a sheep’s emotional state, we can gently change it through training. This course is for anyone who would rather spend time on systematic training than waste time struggling with…
Can my sheep learn this? Do I need experience in animal training? No. Is this clicker training? No. Many sheep owners already use food rewards – which is great. But if the reward comes at the wrong moment, the sheep can accidentally learn things we didn’t intend, such as: In this course, you’ll learn when…
I want to share an experience that began a year ago, when the legs of my 9-year-old ewe, Pippi, suddenly collapsed, but let me begin by sharing a bit about my background. My understanding of hooves comes from ten years of caring for the feet of my own small flock. Most of my practical knowledge,…
Training with rewards isn’t hard, but it is different from the traditional way of handling. We gradually teach the animal to see care procedures as safe – and even enjoyable. Why do rewards work? Sheep, like all animals, repeat behaviors that benefit them. When a sheep learns that calm behavior or cooperation leads to something…