Trubie
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I have a 10 yr old TBxAppy mare who i have had for nearly 2 years, when i got her i was told she was a bit green and didnt have much mileage so needed to get out and about more. I believe she had spent quite a lot of time out in the field before I bought her as her owner didnt have much time. Other than this she is a very talented mare with lovely paces. I spent a lot of time last year taking her out and doing various events, lessons, hunting to give some more experience.
She as always been a bit quirky (bit bargy on the ground and spooky) but i have oput this down to breeding and just her personality, its normally controlled with some firm telling off.
Yesterday I took her out to do some BD (which is now what I would like to focus on) and she was a nightmare. She came off the trailer and started to spin and barge at me, almost glazed over and didnt see I was there. There wasnt anything that could see that had spooked her and she also wee'd a lot, as she is currently in season. We did manage to tie her to the trailer to tack up but she continued to spin and the usual telling off wasnt working but made the situation worse. I tried to calm her down with strokes to the next but she still barged me. Eventually she caught herself on the trailer and skinned some hait off her leg and draw a small amount of blood. After some help from the stewards and fellow competitors we decided she was ok to ride, which we did. She wasnt as bad to ride (she never is, bu was still very tense and spooky which lead to a not so good test and a much lower score than we are used to
I believe this extreme behaviour is linked to her seasons. I took her out in April (before her seasons started) to a new venue and she was a bit quirky as hadnt been out in 6 months and first time she had left her friends but she was no where near as bad as yesterday, the following week i took her out to another venue and couldnt have asked for better behaviour from her. So i dont believe that this behaviour is just down to going out for this first time in a while.
Most of the time she is a very lovely horse but when in the height of her seasons she can be difficult to handle on the ground and a bit stuffy to ride but doesnt show the same behaviour ridden. When she has these moments she is almost dangerous, not only to people handling her but herself as well as she doesnt seem to have a self preservation and will blindly run at you and spin and the smallest thing can set it off. Thinking about it she did behave like this last year but at the time i out it down to lack of experience, she is the same if out by herslef or with other horses and can be just as calm with other horses or by herself when not in season.
I currently have her on supercalm which helps her general behaviour and also Frisky mare, which doesnt seem to be working as i would like. I have tried her on different supplements which havent worked so im now going down the route of speaking with the vet about Regumate.
Anyone else had similar experiences and how Regumate/marble has worked and the process to getting it prescribed.
Feeling a bit low about it
The other thing would be to only go out when not in the height of her seasons, this may be possible but im not sure how to track them??
She as always been a bit quirky (bit bargy on the ground and spooky) but i have oput this down to breeding and just her personality, its normally controlled with some firm telling off.
Yesterday I took her out to do some BD (which is now what I would like to focus on) and she was a nightmare. She came off the trailer and started to spin and barge at me, almost glazed over and didnt see I was there. There wasnt anything that could see that had spooked her and she also wee'd a lot, as she is currently in season. We did manage to tie her to the trailer to tack up but she continued to spin and the usual telling off wasnt working but made the situation worse. I tried to calm her down with strokes to the next but she still barged me. Eventually she caught herself on the trailer and skinned some hait off her leg and draw a small amount of blood. After some help from the stewards and fellow competitors we decided she was ok to ride, which we did. She wasnt as bad to ride (she never is, bu was still very tense and spooky which lead to a not so good test and a much lower score than we are used to
I believe this extreme behaviour is linked to her seasons. I took her out in April (before her seasons started) to a new venue and she was a bit quirky as hadnt been out in 6 months and first time she had left her friends but she was no where near as bad as yesterday, the following week i took her out to another venue and couldnt have asked for better behaviour from her. So i dont believe that this behaviour is just down to going out for this first time in a while.
Most of the time she is a very lovely horse but when in the height of her seasons she can be difficult to handle on the ground and a bit stuffy to ride but doesnt show the same behaviour ridden. When she has these moments she is almost dangerous, not only to people handling her but herself as well as she doesnt seem to have a self preservation and will blindly run at you and spin and the smallest thing can set it off. Thinking about it she did behave like this last year but at the time i out it down to lack of experience, she is the same if out by herslef or with other horses and can be just as calm with other horses or by herself when not in season.
I currently have her on supercalm which helps her general behaviour and also Frisky mare, which doesnt seem to be working as i would like. I have tried her on different supplements which havent worked so im now going down the route of speaking with the vet about Regumate.
Anyone else had similar experiences and how Regumate/marble has worked and the process to getting it prescribed.
Feeling a bit low about it
The other thing would be to only go out when not in the height of her seasons, this may be possible but im not sure how to track them??
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