Bucking while in season...??.....(sorry Long)

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:confused:I'm pretty sure this is why she is bucking, but just wanted to check with others.

She doesn't normally buck while ridden, well the odd spook in the school buck and then settle.

But

last Sunday she started to buck when asked for canter, she'd buck then canter nicely, but if she slowed on a circle and was about to break to trot, or fall out of her shoulder, i put more leg on and she'd buck again.....

Didn't think too much or it, she had her back done on the Tuesday, she was out in her back, so they put her back together again.

Schooled her again on Saturday and she was lovely in walk and trot but started bucking again in canter, not a forward buck but a refusal to go forward......took her then into the grass schooling ring and she did the odd buck and kick but was forward and then did the most amazing uphill canter i've ever had out of her.

My thought were maybe pain, but she has had her back done and she doesn't do it out hacking, well Sunday big buck and squeal but cantering in large field out of the saddle with another youngster that was messing about so can defo say that was a playful one.

She was due in season on the Sunday so is always mardy, and on the following Saturday she was in season but i had seperated her from my gelding (still touch over fence) as he was getting fat. I didn't notice her squirt so much. (normally major tart), so i was thinking maybe because she hasn't been flirting it so much she was feeling uncomfortable, hence leg back canter results in a buck where as canter in a field doesn't need the aid, she is then fine.

Put her in with Gelding saturday night and straight away she came fully in season and was soaking the place (sorry), going to school her tonight to see if any different now.

She could be just trying it on mind you (4 yr old)

What do you all think is it possible for her to feel like crap due to not being able to flirt so much!!!!!

Big choco cake if you managed to get through that.
 
I don't think my mare has discomfort in her back when in season (grooming and generally feeling about there doesn't generate any grumpy faces anyway!) but she is def buckyer and a right mardy arse when in season (particularly her first season this year - what a horrid girl she was!). I have now got her on agnus castus (sp?!) which seems to have made a big difference. It is the main active ingredient in moody mare supplements, but is v expensive brought that way. (I got mine from cotswold herbs). Yesterday she was due to be at the worst of her season behaviour (and her first season while on agnus castus) and she was very good, no season symptoms at all. We competed dressage and had no mardy moments at all (v unlike her if competing dressage tbh!).

Def worth a go to reduce season symptoms, no negative effects noticed either. I did need to add some mint to her tea to have her eat up, but it isn't expensive so all in all so far things seem to be working!

(P.S. feeling far far too crap to be ridden nicely seems to be no barrier at all to flirting like a proper dirty thing!!!).
 
Rotten though isn't it! I think with my girl at least it is more down to having a bit of a temper tantrum at anything and everything rather than discomfort. I just couldn't deal with her being like that when ever in season as she was very hard to ride so I really wanted to find something that would help - but without going the regumate route. Does yours go huggy afterwards? Something to look forwards to at least?!
 
My big mare's first season of the year always seems painful for her and she's more stroppy than normal. The first week is the worst so I just do in hand stuff with her then she seems to settle. It doesn't bother me too much coz I can't ride much during the week anyway plus I don't like doing things with bad stomach cramps either! :)
 
Major cuddly after, so sweet, love her to bits. First time she has been so extreme, normally ok, so was thinking it was because she wasn't in with her boyf!!!

Love the cuddly bit though.
 
Guess it's like humans, some ladies are more affected than others. Why should mares be any different? Think about where their ovaries are, not surprised if she is feeling sore there that she bucks poor love. If she keeps being like this maybe consider marbleling her?
 
Hi, my little mare had a really bad spell. spent the whole time bucking my son off. We had several bad spells but kept getting told she was just really naughty. Gut feeling in the end made us look into season problems, did sort itself out but suspect it was some sort of inflamation or something with ovaries. Hindsight i should have done something earlier but havent had a repeat of any problems in last few years.
 
Thank you everyone, glad to know others are having this problem. Will not giver her anything for a few seasons, might have been just this time due to not having contact with my Gelding which she normally has during these times.

I'll see how it goes.
 
One of my mares her first season in the year it is like she is the devil in disguise, her back legs are on springs and anything so much as goes near them and boing the legs are flying.
She is the worst mare i have come across yet for being in season, but that week she is left i the field to create chaos, and just gets fed and checked over and left to her grumpyness
 
Sounds exactly like mine!! Doesn't enjoy schooling & would often buck when being asked to canter but would happily canter out on a hack when little persuasion is needed! Bucking & grumpiness seemed to follow a 3 week cycle but happened mid-cycle rather than during the squirty bit! However, just had her ovaries scanned & one is seriously huge & very painful. :( Waiting for her follow up scan next week to see what happens next, poor little poppet! :(
 
my mares a bit funny with seasons. She's not really grumpy but on her first 'proper' season of the year she gets very sore and sensitive right up to where the girth goes and she squeals, kicks up and tries to bite using her angry face if she thinks you're even going to touch her. so going past the shoulder is a no, so i dont ride her unless i want to meet the floor multiple times.
shes also the same for her last season of the year, but shes fine for all the ones inbetween just a massive tart :)
 
Sidney said:
So glad I only have geldings!!!!!! (mind you both mine buck all year round so maybe I should shut up.........)
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^^^^^ lol

Rode her again last night and she started to buck and the guy I was schooling with said she looked more like she was trying it on, being a baby. So i got after her with her stick. Not told her off with it before as was unsure if she was uncomfortable or not.

Think she was to start with a few days ago but now as she has more or less got away with it she has just continued to do so.

Anyway a smack and a huge buck and squeal later (hates being told off), she totally stopped the backing off and bucking and gave me some nice work.

So I now have to keep and eye on her during her seasons and know when she is uncomfortable and when she is then just using it as a evasion.

She was being nappy with it last night, everytime Charlie (17hh ginger boy) went past she'd try to buck and stop.

She is one major tart.
 
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