Bit despondant - words of encouragement please!

[arwenplusone]

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I'l loan you Corroy too.

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Lol - I'll have a field full of stroppy mares and bolshy geldings!

 

[custard]

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I'll have a field full of stroppy mares and bolshy geldings!

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LOL, I expect kerrili was also spot on about the fact your mare's had a baby and now thinks she knows it all. Seems to happen with some people as well!

Seriously though I couldn't get over the difference it made, nor how quickly. He changed overnight from someone who was wearing the Burberry cap and Rockports to Little Mr Perfect Goldenb******ks! He now works off his excess energy 'playing' with his larger lout mates and is all round, a happier little horse.

The best thing is, I haven't had to fork out for anyone else to sort it, just some plain old common sense from the yard owner really. We are all so into segregating horses these days for fear of injury, we forget how it affects their perecptions of where WE fit into the pecking order.

I'd try this before you resort to sending her away. Although I agree with the idea of using an old fashioned 'horseman' and am not into this Parelli blah at all, you have got to manage her yourself at the end of the day and horses behave differently away from home often reverting to their bad habits when you get them back, several hundred pounds poorer

 

[Daisychain]

I would get her on the lunge first and absolutely work the arse of her, put a jump up, and get her sweating and blowing, not just a wizz round, when she is physically tired get on and work her again, i think at the moment she is 'riding you' if that makes sense, so you need to devise a plan where your riding her. You need to get to that state where you really feel you have got her, then you will have a changed horse, you can do this, but you will have to get tough.

 

[YorksG]

Haven't read all the posts so may be repeating, but I was told recently that alfalfa is a phytoeostrogen (sp) so feeding that with regumate is a bit self defeating. I was feeding my mare moody mare mix in alfalfa last year and wondered why she was getting worse not better! She was getting dangerous and loosing the plot. She is now back to her fun and safely spooky self.