Start now if that is what you want to do.
We've always started handling our horses from quite young, working on ground manners and leading, floating, having the farrier, that sort of thing, coz you never know what may happen, and the more stuff you can go with them the less stress and problems there will be later on. So long as you take into account that they are like kids, their attention span isn't great, so start something, and as soon as you get the reponse you are asking for on both sides, call it a day, and let them think about things.
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