Shaffer’s Homestead Horsemanship

05/28/2026

I have relocated so please spread the word!
I am now offering travel training for gentling and groundwork!

MY EXPERIENCE:
🌟Have competed in 3 mustang training challenges(weanling, 2 year old, and 10 year old)
🌟Gentling younger and older mustangs
🌟Creating energy for lazier and more stubborn horses
🌟Getting sensitive horses to relax and absorb their surroundings
🌟Basic Liberty training
🌟Prepping for a safe first ride

PRICING:
🌟$40 per session, sessions will last approximately an hour
🌟Anything farther than 10 miles from my house will have a mileage rate of $1 per mile.

📌Currently located in CALDWELL, ID

Please text or leave a voicemail at
(530)708-1517

05/08/2026

Look it’s Jack and I! This is a great program for anyone wanting to learn!

The 4-H Range and Mustang Camp is August 6-8 at Blue Lake Camp in the Modoc National Forest. Youth ages 9-18 will learn about managing public lands, rangelands, wild horses and burros.

04/29/2026

Kit and Annie are off on their new adventure! I’m so happy with adopter that I chose. He is kind and patient and everything that any baby horse needs!

04/24/2026

I’m a little scared to brush the rest of it out🤦‍♀️
Time to see how much hair is left, at least her tail survived whatever happened here

04/20/2026

Training isn’t always linear.

Sometimes it is leaps and bounds, other times it is one step forward and three steps back. Somedays it looks like being able to pet their whole face and then the next having to just sit outside of their pen while they eat so that they understand you won’t hurt them. Gentling will always have some regressions. Whether it is just not wanting to be caught in the pasture anymore, biting your farrier, or panicking when you make eye contact. We changed everything about their lifestyle. They went from traveling miles and miles a day to having to stay in a small pen. From living off dry grass and tree bark to eating high sugar hay. From being able to cool off in lake of muddy water to having to drink from a 50 gallon plastic tub. We expect them to be immediate friends with the two legged mountain lion that removed them from their home. We should think of gentling as peeling back layers rather than just meeting check points. Sometimes you are excited about what you see and other times you have to sit back and just think about where to go from there. Make smaller goals that you know the both of you can complete, or even just have a goal for yourself. Your horse doesn’t understand that it needs to meet a quota. Focus on training the horse you have today, not the horse you had yesterday. Gentling is not a straight line or just a to-do list. It is a friendship, you set boundaries, learn to trust, and fix problems as they arise.

04/19/2026

Being as she is more of a tense horse I had my mom lead me around. It took a few laps before she was fully okay with it so tomorrow we will try it on our own!

04/18/2026

Kit and Annie had a successful meeting with a potential adopter! Annie was a little shy at first but warmed right up as soon as she got scratches💛
Now we just wait for paperwork to go through!

04/18/2026

The babies were very tired after their training session today!

04/18/2026

Climbed up on Rayn for the first time!

04/15/2026