Bad reaction to a twitch?

YUP jacob gets so doped up with a twitch on he actually hits the deck just falls over like he has been over doped.

Once knew a mare that if you put a twitch on her she would explode with anger not one of mine though she was a mates horse.
 
They don't suit all horses - my now 3yr old needs twitched to do the plaits at the top of her neck and if you leave it on too long she literally falls over. My old event horse used to groan horribly and fall over the second it was tightened
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doesnt really affect mine..we had to twitch 2 of ours for clipping close to the head, so we put it on, no messing and they stood quietly with no fuss, and job done in 4 mins.... sulcky faces but back friends at dinner time!
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Ok, let me re phrase, has anyone ever had a horse go mental with it. I'm not talking about it not having an effect at all, but having a really bad effect on the horse??

I'm just a bit worried about what my horse did the other day that's all.
 
As i said my friends mare used to explode rear,bite,kick out buck you name it she turned in something posessed if you twitched her.
 
Well it was almost like her eyes began to get wider and wider, she made a horrible groaning noise, then exploded, reared and jumped backwards, almost shaking.

Obviously the twitch was taken off immediately and she went back to normal instantly.

Very strange and really quite distressing to watch.
 
It is quite well known, Coffeebean that rather than triggering the dopy endorphins in some horses, twitches make them uncontrollably aggressive (although it is quite rare).
My Tb mare is one of them - she has never kicked, bitten or struck in her life, but put a twitch on and she will try to kill you.
My vet insisted once; I handed him the twitch and left the stable. She picked him up with her head, and threw him at the wall...where he slid slowly down. After that he was inclined to believe me
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So it is not unusual, nothing to worry about - but don't twitch the horse again, as she will always have the same reaction.
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Had one lash out with front feet and catch my son in the head once. Very scary as it came from no where. Farrier said twitches are like that they either work or you get an explosive reaction against them. No half way house. Just got to work out which sort your horse is before it kills you
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Once had a cob go completely mental, he honestly wanted to kill us (until we managed to get the twitch off), feet and teeth were going in all directions
 
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Ok, let me re phrase, has anyone ever had a horse go mental with it

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Yep, twitching certainly doesn't suit every horse.
 
Yep certainly had the good and the bad. Had one horse who when he needed a wound dresssing, would look for the twitch before I went anywhere near him! I have had others that went completely beserk.
It is a bit like sedaline - some are wonderful with it - and others a nightmare. I had a horse to clip last year, that ended up having a full syringe of sedaline, and a twitch - and it still kicked me - ouch!! This year I had two new horses to clip and with two notches of sedaline were wonderful (full heads as well) I would always reach for the chemical first!
 
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