Help needed can't get my filly to come in or go out of her stable.

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About 10 days ago my 12 month old filly started to rush through her stable door.
I think she had scared herself knocking her feed manger off her door.
I got rid of the manger and got her walking through her door again.
Then 3 days ago she started refusing to either walk in or out of the stable it takes between 30-45 minutes to get her in or out.
She's equally difficult going into the stable as going out.
I've tried food, a pressure halter even leaving her stable door open nothing works.
Any ideas greatfully accepted as I am at a loss as to what to try next and as you can imagine having to tag two hours onto anything I want to do is difficult.
 
I had a youngster who went through this. I just turned him around and reversed him in. He was quite puzzled but it didn't take him long to think that he might as well do it the easy way. He had a lot of praise when we completed the manoeuvre which gave him confidence. I think it took about 4 goes for him to put it all together.

Good luck.
 
A few things;
Firstly take time to practice some 'control' work away from stable. Get her to walk forward and back up on command. Use place poles to get her to walk 'between narrow things'.
Perhaps try another stable? She may just associate this issue with her stable?
Reverse her out, or at least part way out, and then get her to take a step forward again. Repeat MANY times. Reward.
Get a 'monty Roberts' blanket. This may give her confidence that it will protect her hips.
Call in someone like Michael Peace. He is excellent and I highly recommend him.

Blindfold - last measure imho.
 
She can't live out 24/7 for a number of reasons. So she is out all day but has to be in at night.
In any other environment she will stop, start move over/back whatever no problem.
Will try the reversing though.
 
Perhaps try walking her through jump poles laid out flat on the ground - wide and then narrowed down to a doorway width? then perhaps try building the height up to replicate walls etc? - using hay bales??

Plenty of treats /praise required when she has done good but keep speaking down to a minimum so she can distinguish what you want from the praise afterwards.

If you have a friendly pony and the stable is reasonably big enough, lead her through following pony.
 
Haven't experienced this particular problem myself, but have had my big girl since she was 14 months & always found that if she didn't want to walk somewhere, walking next to her at her shoulder with a nonchalant but authoritative attitude towards what was bothering her worked a treat! :)
She hated it if I tried to go on ahead & pull. Gentle persuasion didn't work either, she's just back off. But putting on my I'm-not-scared-of-it-and-I'm-in-charge-so-that-means-you-can-and-will-go-past-it attitude worked every time. Still does. But nowadays she has more trust in me so is much less likely to flap when I'm stood tapping my fingers anyway :p
 
This isn't that unusual, a lot of youngsters go through this stage. We have it occasionally where they don't want to leave their field and then once out and after we've finished doing whatever we're doing with them they then don't want to go back into the field. I never pull them nor reverse them, although granted both likely work well. I always have a second person come and shimmy the youngster along from behind. A couple of times of this usually fixes the problem.
 
I would try reversing too.

My 7YO decided she wouldn't go in her stab;e (no issues coming out though :p) so after following advice from here I tried backing her in, it took a few days, but she soon learned it was just easier to walk in. It wasn't her being scared, it was more of a routine, so once broken she got over it!
 
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