anxiety issues with a baby?

[cob&onion]

My 10 month colt had his feet trimmed this morning and he found the whole thing very stressy because his friends where calling to him from the field and they where out of view. He was really worried i know it wasnt the trimming - hes good with having his legs picked up and handled (do this daily) it was because his friends where out of sight (there are 3 of them in the field, my 3yr and another pony). Am a little concerned and would like to try and overcome this problem. In the spring he and my 3yr old will move to there summer grazing and my 3yr old will be leaving him for an hour or so a few times per week - just worried about how he will react?? when i started taking the 3yr old out few months back she was a bit clingy and calling to them but now shes fine leaving them. Hoping he will be the same......so has anyone any suggestions? when my filly was 10 months she wasn't this anxious.
Thanks
ps another pony in the field is not an option - there is alot of horses in the fields opposite his - and usually there is a pony in the field next door so he can reach over if he wants.

 

[fidleyspromise]

It sounds like he possibly wasn't the issue and would have been fine but it was his friends calling to him that set him off?
Is it him being clingy or is the others?

Perhaps it'd be best to take the 3 yr old away, little by little? Keep her in sight but further away. Once he's happy with that, then take her out of sight and just progress further and further each time?
My little 3yr old was stressy and would pace the fence line and I used this and now if I take the 9yr old out, the 3yr old just toddles over to the hay.

 

[LazyS]

I have a similar issue with a two year old gelding. He is in with my 8 year old gelding and next to his dad, a 7 year old stallion. I can take one or other of the boys out to ride and he isn't too bad, getting better the more I do it but if he sees me riding by he starts charging around the field calling. I really want to get both horses out riding together but am afraid of what will happen! He is handled daily but I decided I needed to do a bit more work with him so last weekend he walked across the road to the barn (out of sight of the others but sadly within hearing) - he was as good as gold, only loitered for 10 mins or so tied him up, brushed him and all the time he was paying attention to me, which was a pleasant surprise. Later on while I was out there poo=picking he was being a pain to my gelding so I brought him into the school area (fenced off grass area) and did some join up work with him (which I have done before) and he soon got the idea. I then took him back to the barn and rewarded him with a Spillers treat and he wasn't bothered about being away from the others. So I know I need to do this regularly to get him used to being on his own gradually.
Perhaps you can do this too. Because if we expect them to accept being alone they either will or won't! I had his full sister and she was much easier and happy to be on her own in the barn all night in a stable - and she had been living in a herd up till then - again I was pleasantly surprised. Though she was an awful lot easier to trailer train than her brother. As a yearling she was in the trailer and had done 4 shows (including a county show) and a solo trip from Hampshire to Warwickshire - sadly can't say the same for himself! That is this summer's project - again more handling will help and hopefully the 'join-up'. Hope that has helped you.

 

[Brandy]

I have to say I wouldn;t expect either of mine to behave with the farrier if one was in the field out of view and the other was in having his feet done! I would bring a friend in for him to see while he is having his feet done, as otherwise he might start associaiting the farrier with stressyness.