Don't want to tempt fate, but...

[alsxx]

(Sorry if this would be better in veterinary) my headshaker of 9 years is NOT headshaking! Yay!

I probably shouldn't get excited just yet, but normally he starts mid February and needs his nose net on, but this year we have just kept going without it and he hasn't had any symptoms at all! And I would have thought with everything being out early, that this would have triggered it even earlier than usual.

We have moved from Hampshire to Kent (last September) so whether there was something in particular he was sensitive too and now its gone - who knows!! But I'm so happy!!

Has anyone else noticed this with their headshaker?

 

[silversox]

I've been lucky enough never to have owned a head-shaker but I do know it can be very frustrating! I suspect, and hope for your sake, that the different environment may have made all the difference.

Keep your fingers crossed!

 

[merlinsquest]

A friend of mine moved from scotland to surrey/hants border, and her horse started to headshake!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently its the vast amounts of rape that is grown in this area!!!!!

Good luck with your horse, hope it continues.

 

[spaniel]

I remember as a child someone who bought two ponies from mid Wales. We lived in Devon and she bought both knowing they headshook in summer hence they were very cheap. As soon as they hit the Devon air the headshaking stopped and I can only assume that the air was cleaner there having just come off the sea.