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Mare is having rather strong seasons and sending normally chilled little gelding into rather a state. Won't be rude but we had the full monty yesterday morning and to the point he was where he needed to be in every way....eeekkkk

Neither are misbehaving to handle / ride etc but am seperating them as not a habit I want him to think acceptable and had a mare a few years ago who sufferred a huge haemotoma and scar tissue that granulated and went cancerous and had to be removed after she broke out and spent a night enjoying the company of a particulary attentive and capeable gelding :(

The mare is the problem and very very squiry / reversing / nibbling and nuzzling his nether regions so I was thinking of giving her something to calm her down?

Advice greatly appreciated as OH telling me to sell gelding :(
 
can you seperate them?

Oestress is very good, but if you are not having issues with her, perhaps vix up the geldings nose?
 
Not really, but her nature and friendliness is the same as when she's not in season.
No supplement you can buy in feed stores would stop the squirting I'd imagine.

I do feel your pain - mine is a tart with a capital T.
 
I empathise with you, we are moving yards because my normally gentle gelding thinks he's a stallion, basically raped and hurt a mare, sending her and me into shock, no logical explanation for his behaviour, having lived with a different mare for two years with no problems, shared a field with this mare for a few months with no problems, now no one wants him sharing a field, vet taken bloods, not a rig, but we are having to move yards and house because of it
my sympathies to you
 
After a horrible first season this year I have put my mare onto agnus castus (the 'active' ingredient in ostress and other off the shelf tarty mare supps) and there has been a massive difference (thak god!).

She was evil for her first season, extremely difficult to ride and handle, very very unlike her. I couldn't face her being like that every three weeks and as we also compete quite alot it would also result in alot of wasted entry fees as there would be no use what so ever competing her when she was llike that!

I didn't want to go straight in with the vet and regumate if there was a softer option, but I must admit that I baulked at the cost of ostress! So decided just to use the herb itself without the fancy packaging (got mine from cotswold herbs). Brilliant stuff!

It just so happened that our next comp was when she was due to be tricky again, and bless her she was a love. Just got her head down and worked!!

Big thumbs up from me, and I'm sure my mare must be happier too - she can't have felt very good if she was being that evil!
 
ThePony said:
After a horrible first season this year I have put my mare onto agnus castus (the 'active' ingredient in ostress and other off the shelf tarty mare supps) and there has been a massive difference (thak god!).
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Hmm, that's interesting. I have a tarty mare (who lives out with our own 3 geldings). She doesn't do anything nasty whilst being ridden or handled, but she is much more aggressive with the others in the field since around late April and she double barrelled my stepdad (by accident) when he got between her and a pony. She also kicked out at a gelding we were hacking out with and even looked like she might have a pop at a bus. :p

One of our ponies is on Vitex 4 Equids (agnus castus) for Cushings so I wonder if I could put tarty mare on it also? I guess it might be worth a go. :)
 
In my experience Oestress didnt make a blind bit of difference, tried all sorts of the herbal type stuff and no improvement whatsoever.

I use regumate porcine (and I have posted about how good it is before and dont want people to think i have shares in it :) I go on about it so much i dont sell it i promise!!! But it is the only thing that works with my mare. She is on it from her first season until around October constantly and she is a changed 'woman' - tried not to use it this year and got squirting, uncontrollable tantrums, separation anxiety, refusing to be ridden, standing up, neighing constantly night and day... the works, within a couple of days of being on it back to her normal chilled self

I use the porcine variety as it is BUNDLES cheaper than the real stuff. Have investigated long term use and dont seem to be many negatives. I hope to breed from her eventually and have been advised this shouldnt impact my chances at all (once she is off clearly!!) :)

So just a warning really, i must have spent £1000's on the 'alternative' side of things and didnt get anyway - she is a super alpha mare though and on a big yard so plenty of 'temptation' so yours might not be quite as bad as she is/was!!!
 
Thank you for your replies. I will try the herbal route first but am not willing to spend a fortune as she causes me no problems other than embarrasments and hassle of having to seperate her from my gelding.

Interestingly I have just taken her off Karma as she doesn't need it and is still lovely to ride but this is the only change we have seen ! Could have been worse I suppose ;0)
 
I'm just coming to the end of a 1KG tub of Oestress and i can honestly say it is the biggest waste of £38 ever! I have heard good things about regumate but haven't ever used it so can't comment
 
Have you considered trying a marble? Your vet can insert a sterile marble into her cervix she then thinks she's pregnant. I used one with my previous mare & it worked very well, I have just had the vet to put one into Fleur to see if it helps, costs about £60 including a scan, miles cheaper than regumate or herbal stuffs. Will get it taken out again in October when her vaccination is due.
 
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