Anyone else's horses being plain silly atm ?

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Or is it just mine ?? Normally she's not too daft in winter but this winter it's like she's possessed ! Totally irrational at times and almost unrideable ! Just cant wait for spring (Spring grass and more exuberance yay 😖)
 
Yes they have all gone completely mad for no reason I can think of other than it has to be day light changing. Can't blame the grass as mine isn't on it and it can't be hormones as I've gone gelding!
 
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Mine are, but they haven't been out since Sunday :( :( stupid rain, stupid clay. The hormones are definitely surging though ;)
 
Yes mine is being complete witch. It was too wet to canter safely last time I rode so she made a point of violently shying at random things (including mud) and trying to unseat me. I did loose a stirrup and jarred my back :( She's a horse that needs to do speed work to keep her civilised.
 
Yep mine is wild, one reason is the wind - he goes mental and the other is I've cut his hay right back and am giving him straw instead.
 
The baby of the trio is doing okay. Rio is, a little wild. He just gets annoying more than naughty. Gracie is being a total PITA. Ripping everything to shreads, and getting her 'naughty lip' on before I ride. I can tell when she's going to be a pain, she folds her top lip over her bottom!
 
I am relieved to read these posts, my lad has been a right nobber too and I've been beating myself up soundly over it. I could definitely handle his "moments a lot better, I tend to freeze and adopt a foetal position, but it's good to know that it seems to be a general consensus among the UK's horses that silly season is now.
 
Thank god it's not just mine. Sharp as hell at the moment to the point I've bought someone in to ride it hard a couple of times a week on the days she would normally have off as I'm away with work!
 
At least my horse isn't the only one! She's been turned out everyday and ridden as much as possible and still crazy. Wanting to go as fast as possible and literally spooking at everything possible oh and will not walk
 
Yes all of mine are mad ! You'd think at 23, 23 and 18 they'd know better, but apparently not.
Schooled one of them yesterday and he totally refused to cooperate - he finds his canter work hard as until now had never really done much flat work, and in the spirit of winter decided that he would not work forwards nicely into my hand, but we instead bounced around, head in air, with a weird 4 beat canter ??!
It's hard not to find it depressing- I've been working my butt off trying to find time to ride around work and currently it just feels like I'm banging my head against a brick wall !
Roll on spring!!
 
Yes, thought is was just me! I'm blaming the warmer weather, one of the other mares has come into season so its making me wonder. Not helped that she had a couple of months off work for a winter break, if she continues to be a twit she will go back on holiday!
 
seems to literally be spring in the air with the nights getting lighter and the weather getting warmer. there are some mares in a field a little way from me and they were sounding like stallions at the weekend and going by their shape and the fact that they usually have foals in summer I suspect they are behaving like that while they are well pregnant :D
 
Ahrena said:
My 19 year old has been savage for weeks ������
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My usually angelic 19 year old has turned savage too.

The two lovely ID's are still lovely, but a tad more forward than usual, we jogged the entire way on our hack yesterday. But to be fair the baby one was amazing, hacked past the scary tractor that was hedge cutting.

The WB, nuts, but then he always is.

The mare in foal, quiet . But very uncomfy last night as it looked as though tootles was doing back flips, bless her.
 
Funnily enough mine always has a couple of mad weeks in February! I have given up trying to explain or control it...just look forward to it coming to an end!
 
Yes! Even more than normal! Am blaming it on boredom, even when turned out they stand at the gate wanting to come in, fields are too wet and slippy for them to want to burn off any energy and no real grass to mooch about nibbling
 
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Yes! Even more than normal! Am blaming it on boredom, even when turned out they stand at the gate wanting to come in, fields are too wet and slippy for them to want to burn off any energy and no real grass to mooch about nibbling
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Mine are the same, even the ones in the big field with grass are fed up and wanting back in. So today they are having a duvet day
 
skint1 said:
I am relieved to read these posts, my lad has been a right nobber too and I've been beating myself up soundly over it. I could definitely handle his "moments a lot better, I tend to freeze and adopt a foetal position, but it's good to know that it seems to be a general consensus among the UK's horses that silly season is now.
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Yes I totally agree, such a change of behavior for my mare, I thought I'd done something to stress her out or tack wasn't fitting. Relieved to hear others having the same problem too! x
 
Yup acts normal for 20 minutes, then explodes in canter, heading for jumps or poles n taking them like the puissance, despite me only asking for a circle...or scared of the dead tree in the field ..then the puddle, then the road...and we're jogging home at pace......quite like it but annoying if you're schooling..,��
 
Yep even the sainted Kevin is playing up! He has been off work due to a sore leg, a slip in the field, looked OK so I called in the rider the have a go today. She called me to say he was still off colour, refusing to go forward, playing up at the mounting block and just being awkward(mild napping) . I was concerned as he had seemed fine. Turns out she had gone the wrong way down the hill, so he played up the entire way. Turn him the "correct" way and he is fine. Sod had her convinced he was still sore, just because he doesn't like going Right. Trotted out sound as a pound, for that she is coming out to ride him proper tomorrow:D

( before anyone has a go, I know the horse should go either way and it's entirely my fault, I will be sorting it out ASAP. My other horse has arthritis and I never turn right with him as it is straight down hill. So I have got in to the habit of going left as it is flat and he can warm up his joints. I just had not registered it had become habit until I turned Kev right and discovered his issues and realised what I had done.....doh! )
 
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