SirBrastias
Well-Known Member
Please tell me this is a real thing?! Feel like pulling my hair out. Poor horse was on box rest for the first two months of the year due to a fracture near his elbow, he's now turned out and in a small amount of work but for some reason has turned into a fruit loop! He's still polite (to a point) but everything at the moment is just stressing him out and he spends most of his time running about flicking his toes out with his tail in the air.
I'm hoping its a combination of him slowly losing his coat (he was a wooly TB during the winter), the green grass coming through and he being turned out with a mare who generally seems interested in him (normally he's out with a different herd of four inc geldings who are all pretty close). Him and his mare friend recently lost their third companion a lovely boy in his late thirties who they were both very attached too so I think they've bonded together to get through it.
When I first got him, he acted like a the 'stereotype' TB - really anxious and stressed all the time. In the two and a half years he's been here he's grown in confidence and come a long beautifully until the last two weeks were it seems he thinks I'm leading him to slaughter every time I bring him onto the yard.
I do remember him being a bit loopy this time previous years but he just seems to have forgotten that I'm the good one who feeds him and loves him unconditionally and that life really isn't that stressful on a quite farm where he gets everything handed to him.
Anyone else believe in spring fever or am I deluded?
Didn't mean for this to be so long! Just needs to air my woes. Good news is, even though he's a pain in the arse still love my ickle horse.
I'm hoping its a combination of him slowly losing his coat (he was a wooly TB during the winter), the green grass coming through and he being turned out with a mare who generally seems interested in him (normally he's out with a different herd of four inc geldings who are all pretty close). Him and his mare friend recently lost their third companion a lovely boy in his late thirties who they were both very attached too so I think they've bonded together to get through it.
When I first got him, he acted like a the 'stereotype' TB - really anxious and stressed all the time. In the two and a half years he's been here he's grown in confidence and come a long beautifully until the last two weeks were it seems he thinks I'm leading him to slaughter every time I bring him onto the yard.
I do remember him being a bit loopy this time previous years but he just seems to have forgotten that I'm the good one who feeds him and loves him unconditionally and that life really isn't that stressful on a quite farm where he gets everything handed to him.
Anyone else believe in spring fever or am I deluded?
Didn't mean for this to be so long! Just needs to air my woes. Good news is, even though he's a pain in the arse still love my ickle horse.