grr, now she has friends!

[B_2_B]

If any of you remember, i posted before about having difficulty catching Connie.
On sunday the plan was to try jumping her, but one of the farmers has put 3 horses in the field beside theirs and she will not leave them!
She won't get her headcollar on unless most of the other horses are out of the field, mainly Maddie, or unless she is shut in the emu pen (within the field). But now when we try to herd her into the emu pen she gets half way then turns round and gallops back to the fence where her new friends are.
We think she's just scared to leave now because she's been abandoned on her own for about 2 years and now she's suddenly surrounded by all these horses, she loves them! lol.

Any tips on how to get her away from these other horses?

 

[121272MDV]

Patience and lots of feed

 

[amandathepanda]

Feed buckets, a couple of lunge ropes to herd her into a safe corner and several willing but sensible people.

 

[B_2_B]

Hmm, we really don't want to use feed. As a rescue centre, we're pushed for money as it is and we can't afford to feed her every time we want to ride her! Any other time, it's not a problem because all the others come in for feeds on the yard. Also, if you take food into the field you get mobbed by sheep and the other 5 horses. A carrot did work but she's starting to get wise to that now.

Could try with the lunge ropes but as was the case on sunday there was only two of us there to catch her so numbers of available people are a problem too.

It's so annoying because once she's out the field she's fine. It's not the work she has a problem with and we were starting to get somewhere with her until these new horses appeared!

 

[Cop-Pop]

How close can you get to her? When I first got B she was a rescue and a nightmare to catch. I used to tie the lunge whip into a loop and sort of lasso/drape it over the head as once something was round her she just stopped and gave in. Luckily she wasn't scared of it!!

 

[Holly27]

if you have time try some join up .. thats what i did with a mare up our yard just a thought

 

[B_2_B]

haha, ooh that's a good idea!
you can get up to her quite close with the leadrope hidden, she just pulls away when you get the headcollar or leadrope anywhere near her head.

 

[B_2_B]

i don't know if i'd be allowed to do join up lol, but we do have a ring.

 

[dwi]

If its the putting things on her head that she runs away for I'd definitely recommend taking a long line and looping it round her neck so she feels "caught" but without you having to put a headcollar on and giving her the potential to back away. Works a treat if Daisy is being funny