Recent content by raggydoll

Sorry if I've posted in the wrong part of the forum...I thought it could be a medical thing.... My mare has always been bottom of the pile with the other mares, she's never been dominant in the slightest until now. She's had her own paddock for the last 6 months and now has just been...

no chance to have a lay in.....ever! Mud, poo, muddy poo, smelling of horse poo, worry, poverty and cold. There are others, but they don't seem to matter when you have a really great day with your horse, all the bad stuff just goes and it's all worth it. Jo x

Thanks for all your help and the good lucks, i will definatly be trying out some of the ideas. Fingers crossed! x

she goes out on her own first (she always has) and doesn't seem bothered at all before she does it. She walks off the yard fine, starts up the grass ok, then all of a sudden slams the breaks on (as if somethings startled her) and goes up. Nothing has moved, nothing is different, nothing has...

no, she's led in a run of the mill headcollar. She has breakfast at about half 7 and then goes out shortly afterward before i go to work. I'm trying to make sure it's me that deals with her as much as possible, but my YO is so helpfull bringing her in for me while i'm at work so she doesn't...

She goes out after her breakfast and comes in mid afternoon. Ive started taking her out in her bridle which stops it, but i realy want to work out the why so that i don't have to. After she's gone up she just walks happily with no fuss.

Yep she's sound and I had her back checked a few months ago when i bought her and everything was fine......apart from this issue she's an angel....i could always get them out again though to double check. She doesn't do it when being led anywhere else, just to her paddock, which is odd.

This is my first post, sorry it's with a problem My 9 yr old mare has just recently started to rear when she is being led to her paddock. She isn't bunny hopping, she's full on nostrils flared vertical rearing........There seems to be no reason for it, nothing to spook at, nothing new, her...