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Vet was out yesterday, she had a health check and we are going to try regumate!

I'm having issues with my mare being in season at the minute, she is only 6 though. I done a post on here the other day and it seems quite common with others at the minute. She is turned out with just mares and they all seem to be in and out the last few weeks to! I have my vet coming tomorrow...

M mare had frequent abscesses throughout 2 summers, as soon as I got her diet spot on and her trims right we were good and for the last 2 years we've had none! Had xrays to make sure there wasn't anything else going on but she had great feet with a thick sole (for a Thoroughbred) :)

Its so good to hear its not just me then 😂 I also put her on full dose of Oestress and she has been considerably calmer the last 2 days. Vet is out next week so we will go from there x

the lights go on around 5:30am when I arrive, then shes out from around 7am until 3pm. Lights probably wont get turned out for the evening until around 7-7:30pm as its a busy livery yard - so yeah, a lot of 'light'

I read your post yesterday, very interesting! She was a lot more settled last night! My vet is calling me back today so hopefully have a plan in place soon

We had mild weather not long ago, reading a few facebook posts a lot of mares were coming into season around the same time :)

My rising 7 year old is showing signs of being in season, even though we are covered in snow (have been for the last 4 days). I have had her since she was 2.5 years old and every time it snows she always gets very stressy/anxious/reactive. She is a stressy type, she's a Thoroughbred. She is...

My mare is showing season behaviour too, although we are full of snow so not particularly in the mild weather!

So after all that she let me quickly tie a messy plait into a little ball and it looked ok. We both had a lovely time so that’s all that matters right ?

Thank you all. Last night I made made a fake forelock from her tail hair and wrapped it around her headpiece to keep it in place. Its nothing amazing, but it seems to do the job when I messed with it this morning :D

I had the likit out last night and she was more accepting of me messing about with it, so ill keep trying this each day. Thanks :D

This is my way of thinking, I dont want her first time out to be a stressful start, for both of us o_O. I would rather take her unplaited if it came to it, its meant to be fun after all (I think) Im confident that in time she will be ok and accept me doing it, but I might be pushing my luck...

I can imagine this to be quite unpopular yes :):) I dont stitch anyway, I only use plaiting bands. I wont skin twitch her though, this isn't an option for me, but thanks for your reply :)

Hi, bumping up this from January as we now have our first inhand show in a few days. But we have an issue, she will not allow me to plait her forelock... she is genuinely terrified, not sure if something has happened with this from her previous race yard and she has some bad memories or if she...