Anyone else with a horse not being caught lol?

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Week and a half now I've not been able to catch the bugger. I detest him in the summer I really do lol.


Target practice for anyone lol?!?!?


I was contemplating whether to turn him away for the summer and just bring him back into work in Autumn to hunt him......seems like he's answered that for me. -_-
 
if it were me I'd rope in a friend who knows absolutely nothing about horses whatsoever and send them down there with some polos and a headcollar. All my 'uncatchables' have been a complete sucker for someone that doesn't have a clue what they're doing ;)
 
mine was a bit of a bugger today, but think it was because of the wind, the galloped over to me but kept chucking his head in the air every time i tried to put the head collar on! but at least he'd come near me! I ended up holding his nose and getting it on that way!

my mare used to be a cow in the summer, we'd get all the other horses in and she still won't come in! I ended up having to send a friend in and she was always fine as she didnt see them and think she was going to be ridden!

i feel your pain though, i remember sitting in the field crying on many occassions! other horses coming to see if i was ok and her just looking at me as if i were rude for not playing her games!
 
Lol mine was fine to catch for the first week him being back....then decided he clearly didn't want to be back in full work lol.

Oh well. He hates the babies. So he can stay out there and get annoyed senseless by 20 odd colts lol! Karma.
 
Yes - at the moment mine is alternating between absolutely fine and absolutely a pain in the nether regions. Couldn't get within two feet of him on Saturday - had to go with a feed scoop in the end.
Yesterday however I foiled him! one of his little games is to put his head up, let you get within touching distance then squeal, spin, kick out and run away. However yesterday he misjudged the distance with the result that I managed to grab his headcolloar and hang on tight whilst he squealed and grunted at me. He gave in once he knew the game was up though and came in nicely.

Wouldn't mind but he's not even ON the summer grass yet!
 
Um no, the opposite. Call one and you have a stampede on your hands.

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Everything is desperate to come in! (Hot and buggy now, they LIKE their stalls) Bringing one mare and foal in when 6 others want to play too is no joke.
 
Yep! He's an absolute pain in the backside in the summer! He now has a headcollar on so i can go in and pounce! He is fine now he knows he'll get a "feed" (aka an apple in a bucket) once brought in though - he's so jammy!
 
OH YES Know how it is ..:D

Found out that my horses needs an absolute strict routine of being brought in everyday or we are playing endless games in the field. Very frustrating. Food bucket ... not at all interested. I ended up catching him with electric fence tape once when I hadn't got a choice. He was injured and I needed to get him to check him over.

He used to be turned away for the summer until hunting starts again and that's what I guess he thinks is happening if he is out more then 2 days :D:D:D:D
 
The thing is.....do you only catch your horses when you want to "do" something with them? Do you ever catch them, give them a treat/feed and turn them out again? Think about it!!
 
My mare use to be like this seriously I couldn't catch her at all but have had no problems this year. How.......... Iv put a grazing muzzle on her. Really it works she trots up to me now every day to come in for her hay and a sleep. The only time she got it off I had to send a 7 yr old kid out there to catch her.
Muzzle them I say when u catch them or just before the grass starts next year
 
Yes :mad:

With the added sting that the one I want turned away until autumn hunting is desperate to come in and the one I want to ride refuses to be caught. Horses, who'd have them!

I can get mine eventually but it just takes three times longer than it should!
 
Yes! But they've swapped places this year .. Little mare is galloping to the gate and the big mare is refusing to be caught so yesterday I took the little one into the big ones stable she rolled in her bed and started eating her hay then whinned .. Who came thundering up to the gate then ;)
 
I think I may have one of these today! Since I have had my boy he has been bit difficult to catch to the point where only myself and one of my YMs can get near him at all and sometimes takes a while. Yesterday however we took off his headcollar (first time since he's been out 24/7) as it was making him sore under his chin and I have a feeling it might be the last time I ever get him!
 
My mare used to do this.....i got so fed up with it i started chasing her round the feild not letting he eat after 4 hours she gave up and came in the next day it was thirty mins.....now all i have to do is stand taller when she starts to run and she just sighs and comes over :D
 
Me too! Had one last year who I spent many a summer evening 'admiring' from a distance...and this year I have another one who has decided summer grass is far preferable to working for the first time in his 7 years....when they get like that they live in old leather headcollars...for an easy catch-hold..funny how everything changes when the grass goes a bit scarce and you've become a human hay dispenser...they're always so keen to see you then I find! :rolleyes:
 
slightlyconfused said:
My mare used to do this.....i got so fed up with it i started chasing her round the feild not letting he eat after 4 hours she gave up and came in the next day it was thirty mins.....now all i have to do is stand taller when she starts to run and she just sighs and comes over :D
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This ^^^^ :D
 
My stroppy old git more often than not pulls a face at me and shows me his gurt fat @rse; and considering all he does is hack out I can't really see that I'm being ultra horrid to him or anything. The only other time he's asked to come to me is for food!!! So can't see why the great greedy guts is being so cussed. He's pampered, worshipped and adored (most of the time! ;))

He's turned out with one other horse, a mare; and she's the dominant one - so what I tend to do is catch her up and bring her in first, and then he usually follows and asks to be let in.

IMO if you "chase" then or follow them round the field, they get to enjoy the chase aspect and are even more cussed to catch. But sympathise with anyone who's got a really elusive animal that cannot be caught! It's a bvgger innit. Blimmin things. Ponies are the worst I reckon; and the problem with mine is he's got a pony's brain in a hulking great cob body, the wretch.
 
Alyth said:
The thing is.....do you only catch your horses when you want to "do" something with them? Do you ever catch them, give them a treat/feed and turn them out again? Think about it!!
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He's probably been ridden a grand total of possibly ten times since November lol....So yes.

He's fat as a bullock and happy as larry on over 30 acres of hillside, with about 20 other 2 year olds. He's not silly....a few carrots, or freedom.....lol.

Sod him. He's clearly sound and content. :o Lol.
 
Mine come in for a feed regardless of whether the 4yo is being worked. Wb is so food orientated that he practically falls over his own legs to come in and the appy wont be left out on his own :p
 
My pony used to have me in tears as a child/teenager. I used to spend hours and hours trying to catch him in the summer. He was horrid! He's pretty much retired now but still has his moments when he feels like staying out in the field.
 
Ive not but a friend of mine on an old yard had this problem ... she'd literally chase her horse around for an hour plus each day! :p naughty boy!

My arab whos away at stud at the moment will come galloping from anywhere in field as soon as she hears/sees me but she's my little baby girl ... the TB we bought last year follows her everywhere so he'd just follow her whenever I went for them both ... she's been away now over a month and he only comes after 5 mins of shouting (or if I call my mares name!) hahaha x
 
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