Bad Catches (sorry if long)

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Hi Everyone

Opinions, I'm I over worried.

A good friend is back from Uni for the week, and has a extreamly bad catch mare. Who is not nervous or in pain, who has no intrest in food and if you take everything out the feild knows the game, Five hours last week for the little darling still no luck.

So the YO wants to put her is a smaller feild ie 4 acer not 60. We are in single sex feilds, but i've been asked to put my gelding in with her. Both are riden together and have been kept in mixed herds before, so not worried on that account.

But the big but, I have said i'd prefer not to if it can be helped as, gelding was also an extreammly bad catch and has taken 3Yr to get to the stage where it a 8/10 chance of getting a hold of him, He is the same as the mare no intrest in food or people and its taken all my will to build up a relationship with him. Im terrifid as on a bad day you can't get near him and he sets all the others off so no one can be caught. That putting him in with this mare may return some of those behaviours and encourage him into old habbits. Especially when hes coming back into work.

I'm a being a silly? or does this reason make sence

I just can't think to Bad catches would ever make a right
 
I don't think you're being silly. Bad to catch is a game to most (if pain etc etc is ruled out) and I have seen it copied, a bit like weavers, one on the yard weaves and before you know it you've got a line up of ten happily rocking! Speak up, I would!x
 
Hi, what an awful situation, which I couldnt possibly have the knowledge to pass opinion, other than I have a bad catch mare also, but have found life a little easier in grazing her in a fieldsafe headcollar, makes it easier to have something to grab on to, but also have the peace of mind that if she gets caught in the field on anything, it'll break, I'm sure youll know this already, good luck
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I agree, i wouldn’t think it would help her horse much either because 2 running about like idiots is worse that just one.

Surely there must be another horse that loves food and people that can go out with it.
 
I really do both wear head collers in the feild, my gelding been great but its an event yard, and when the bad catches come in you can tell. He had all winter off and lives out 24/7 and gets brought in once a day for feed or exercise and feed. He's been in with good catches which helps and i normally wait till the end of the day when all the eventers are in there stables so to limit the no of horse in the field. After trying to catch the madam it was a bit to close to the previous 2yrs, lots of tears in that time period. Especially when they have been brough in a fed all week but still its a fight to get a hold of them.

YO is trying to work something out about the horses now, but if friend comes to ride they want something which can be by itsself. They though as we always try and ride together this solved the problem of one horse in by its self.
 
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