Great Way to Train Icelandics to Trailer Load

Most Icelandics are very food oriented.  I love the way this horse trainer uses clicker training and positive reinforcement to teach Normann the Icelandic to trailer load.  The trainer also chunks down the action--approach trailer, stand by trailer calmly, put one foot on trailer, etc.--before attempting the next step.  And the horse is a willing participant. 

There are three videos posted about this process--all very informative.

Icelandic Horse Cookies

Stacey Kimmel featured the cutest Icelandic horse head cookies assembled out of Pepperridge Farms Milano cookies vanilla wafers, icing, Tootsie Rolls, etc on her blog Behind the Bit.  I made a herd of them for  Horse Club meeting over the weekend.  The cookies were a huge hit--whimsical, delicious, lots of chocolate--what could be better.  If I made a mistake, I just added more icing as mane since these were suppose to be Icelandic horses.

Here is the link to Stacey's blog which is always interesting.
http://www.behindthebitblog.com/2015/06/cookies.html

And to the Savory Experiments web page for the assembly directions.
http://www.savoryexperiments.com/no-bake-horse-cookies/