help with touching my foal

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annareed6

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I bought a 6 month old filly foal 2 weeks ago and i cant get near her!!
She has a headcollar on and has been in a stable, in a small field on her own and is now in a large field with another foal and 5 other older horses that are easy to catch.
I have spent at least 2 hours a day with her just sitting in the field letting her sniff me.
When i go into the field she comes to me with her ears pricked and sniffs me, then puts her ears flat back and tries to attack me!!
I can hand feed her carrots and shes fine until they run out!!
Today the other foal came to me and let me stroke it and my foal attacked it, then turned to me with her ears pricked so i went to touch her and she attacked me!!
I am experienced with horses but not foals and was hoping to do parelli with her but I cannot get near her, i cant even clip a lead rope on her to show her that im not the big bad wolf she thinks i am.

Any suggestions????
 
I suggest bringing her in and spending one on one time with her. If shes in a herd environment then she'll seek attention and friendship from the herd and not you. Bring her in via following another horses, put her in the stable and catch her there.
 
thanx i will try that, i cant understand how the other foal who she came with will come to me and be caught, stroked etc and she just attacks me!!
 
she puts her ears back and runs at me, when she get to me she tries to bite me, when i shout no, she will turn and try to kick me, its like she just hates me!!
 
Define vicious please? (teeth? feet? how is she attacking you?)
You have only had her for two weeks? Has she been taken straight off mum to your place?
You have put her into a situation she has no control over. She is a baby in a field of big scarey strangers, who are all higher in the pecking order than she is, so its rather no suprise she is a bit defensive!
 
teeth and feet.
she was taken from her mum about a week before i got her which was about 2 weeks ago, she came with another foal who will come and be stroked, caught brushed etc
 
Sorry but I think you are expecting way too much too soon.
She has barely had time to settle. Her mum has gone, she is stressed and alone with nobody to defend her against the other herd members (who are strangers to her at the moment).
Add to this she sounds like a highly strung individual, can you not see why she feels the need to defend herself from what she percieves as a threat?
I would have her in, with someone steady next door that she can hear and smell to give her some reassurance.
Give her a decent amount of time to settle, then start again.
With some confidence you might find she has a totally different attitude to you
 
you shouldnt really feed her by hand. find her scratchy points usually bum and inside thighs and scratch away!! in time she will let you catch her and then you have to start the touching legs and feet thing! you might have to bring the whole bunch in by herding aand get her in a stable and spend a week doing the scratchy bits til she likes you, but dont feed by hand othewise you will get a grumpy greedy bitey baby!!!
 
Just to let people know, have kept her in since sunday with the other foal and she is now eating out of a hand held bucket and im soooo close to touching her!!
 
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