Help please with bad traveller!

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sammi88

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In the next couple of weeks I'm moving my horse up from Portsmouth to Cheltenham, which will take about 2 hours! The problem is he isn't the best at travelling and gets quite stressed :( I've used some calmers before but only in his feed and they were like long term ones.

Can anyone suggests any methods of keeping him calm on the journey or any calmers?
 
These are quite good. They start to work after 5-10 mins
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I was thinking about using sedalin im just worried that it'll knock him out too much and he might be a bit unstable in the lorry?! Someone up my yard used the normal amount on her horse and it knocked him out completely for like 4 hours!?

He's gonna be travelling up in a lorry not a trailer.
 
My old mare used to be a terrible traveller - she was really restless and would *always* come out of the lorry sweated up all over - even if she was only in there for 10 mins!

Our saving grace was Rescue Remedy - I used the spray RR, and sprayed it straight on to her tongue a few minutes before loading. Once I started using RR she settled down travelling no end. We even travelled for 3 and a half hours one time, and she came out of the lorry cool as a cucumber - even though it was horrific rain and wind the whole time we were travelling!

However - I also am a great believer in practicing things like this - and I did make a concerted effort to travel her as often as I could manage - even if it was only 10 mins down the road to go to the beach or out hacking or whatever. Maybe try and get your boy out for a couple of little trips before you need to move him, really nice and slow ones if you can, just so he gets the idea that its not as horrific as he thinks it is!
 
Don't how you travel your horse, so don't know if this helps, but it worked for my horse and judging by the threads on here for many others as well.

Give the horse as much room as you can. Since having a camera in my trailer I have learnt that I used to partition the horse too tightly, so she would lean on the partitions and then become unstable. A horse should stand on its own 4 feet - partitions are only for separating horses.

If necessary cross tie the horse to discourage it from putting too much weight on the partitions.

Good luck!
 
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