"Go Beyond Imprinting with Enhanced Foal Training. Enhanced Foal Training helps to instill correct behavior in the horse from the very beginning. Enhanced Foal Training is a methodology for bringing up young horses to be honest, highly intelligent and most importantly, adaptable. Enhanced Foal Training begins shortly after birth in conjunction with traditional imprinting because foals are ready, willing and able to learn shortly after birth. Enhanced Foal Training includes non-stressful exercises and challenges that are fun and infuses trust while creating a lasting bond between foal and handler. Additionally the logic of the method teaches a foal 'to learn how to learn' while it promotes skills and respect that are easily transferred to a foal's 'higher education' requirements upon maturity. With Enhanced Foal Training, foals begin to learn a life long work ethic that applies to independent work and schooling in unison with foals and other adult horses."

"Through imprint training, a young, impressionable foal is very early taught the lessons it will need to know throughout its life. The foal learns to trust and respect people, and that does much to eliminate the fear element." Click above to read more.

"Certain North American Indians spoke to horses before birth and handled foals daily the first few days after birth. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours after birth is a period when some species, including horses, can be imprinted." Click above to read more.

"When a foal is born you have a 2 to 3 hour window of opportunity for imprinting. If the birth has gone well for both mare and foal, you can begin a training process just after the birth." Click above to read more.

"Imprinting is the art of introducing yourself, a human, to an animal infant shortly after its birth. In the wild, communication takes place between mother and offspring within seconds after birth." Click above to read more.

"What if there was a way to practically insure your newborn foal would be manageable and easy to train later in his life and it would take about two hours on the day he was born?" Click above to read more.

"Imprinting is the process of providing experiences to the foal so that they become fundamental memories influencing the foal for the rest of its life. If the foal learns that certain experiences are non-threatening during its first moments in the world, it will be more likely to tolerate or embrace those and similar experiences later on." Click above to read more.

"I believe imprinting foals, as done using good common sense, by experienced horse people, is an essential tool in preparing a foal for his future. What follows is a brief description of the imprinting done during the first few days with a foal born at Valley Creek Farm." Click above to read more.