I’m curious to understand what taming a wild horse entails, and how it works, from a horse’s psychology pov, or at least how we understand things to be.
Also, what would be the differences in taming a domesticated horse raised on a farm vs one that’s born and raised in the wild?
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My understanding is that breaking is just the first step of the taming process just like taming is the first step of the domestication process. (I’m not a farmer or a ranch hand so this is all based on reading done for other purposes and could easily be partly incorrect)
In the example of horses they have a pecking order with the alpha male at the top and they all follow the alpha. You come along and lasso one of the horses to bring back home. You now need to break it or more accurately show it that yiu are now the alpha. What goes into this I’m not sure and there are probably several different methods of varying degrees of humane or inhumane. Further taming involves getting it used to people and being in captivity and doing whatever it is you caught it to do.
In contrast a horse that is bread from domestic stock does not need to be broken or tamed, it grows up from birth with humans and other horses that are comfortable around humans. The only things that need to be done are training for it’s specific job.
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