Welcome to the Witter Center

Area specific training. This video is for review purposes only. This training needs to be taken in person by anyone involved at the Witter Center.

Horse Handling

01-Brief intro to horse handling
02-Bring in from paddock & chain
03-Rules for the lead rope
04-Through the gate out
05-Through the gate in
06-Walking the horse and pigeon curtain
07-Through the stall door
08-Into the stall and leading her around
09-Taking off halter and leaving stall
10-Leaving the stall, door, halter
11-Putting on halter and going out
12-Release into paddock

John Deere Training

Please review this official video from John Deere about safe operation of the Gator.

John Deere safety video

Below are videos of all aspects of Gator training specific to the horse barn. The text description for each video contains a summary of the key points. Each video is about a minute long.

01-Introduction
02-Vehicle Controls
03-Fuel
04-Starting her up
05-How to open the door
06-Don't forget to close the door!
07-Filling the water tank
08-Stowing the hose
09-Starting on a hill
10-Parking

Cleaning the warmroom

Below are short videos of how to clean the warm room. The sound in the videos is not great, so read the text description for each video for the key points. Each video is about a minute long.

01-Introduction
02-Clean tubs and clear area
03-Tubs, rocks, stay to right of line
04-Hosing
05-Cleaning the walk way
06-Cleaning mats and gutter
07-Dumping waste hay
08-Rinsing tools and bucket
09-Finishing up and wrapping the hose

Horse Identification

Meet our horses

and Diva!

Horse ID, coat color, aging (for AVS 146-part 1)

Horse ID, coat color, aging (for AVS 146 part 2)

Grooming

Grooming 1

Grooming 2

Physical Exam and Body Condition

Coming soon to a horse near you!

Points of the horse/basic anatomy

Parts of the horse you should know part 1

Parts of the horse you should know part 2

Ligaments and tendons/more advanced anatomy

Anatomy 1 More difficult parts of the horse you should know.

Anatomy 2 A few more difficult parts of the horse you should know.

Anatomy 3 Just a tad more difficult parts of the horse you should know.

Anatomy 4 Discussion with a horse skeleton.

Gaits and longeing

Longeing 1

Longeing 2

Longeing 3

Walk

Trot

Canter

Back-up

Tendon injury, lameness and lameness examination

Observation of lameness

Lameness physical examination

Front leg lameness in slow motion

Hind limb lameness in slow motion

More hind limb lameness in slooow motion

Therapy for lameness/Bandaging

Applying standing and shipping wraps

How to apply polo wraps