Hormonal behaviour

[Happy2Hack]

I'm having a few issues with my WB mare at the moment.
2 weeks ago she got chased and cornered in the field by one of the geldings. Managed to get her in and she was very shaken up. Thought she may have come into season so kept her in to avoid anything happening again.
Apart from a few squeals if a horse went past her stable she showed no other signs of being in season. Last weekend however a visisting pony was stabled next to her overnight this did cause her to be in season and resulted in lots of squealing and squirting! This only lasted for 2 days.
I kept her in for another week to make sure and she showed no further signs that she was in season. I turned her out on Friday bit within minutes the gelding was chasing her again.
There was a lot of squealing and kicking out but I didn't see her squirting at him or anything like that. He seemed to be chasing her away from the herd - wouldn't let her near. I had to bring her back in for fear of injury.
Again no signs of being in season (squirting etc) just the odd squeal as the horse goes past.
She is not a moody mare to handle at all and she is fine to ride. She is a bit food possesive and will kick out if a horse walks past the stable when she is eating but this is something she has always done!
The vet is coming out on Tuesday and is going to try her on regumate.
We are now heading into week three of this behaviour. So I'm just wondering if anyone has a horse who has done something similar?
Just to add that she has lived in the herd with this gelding quite happily since we moved to the yard last June.

Well done if you got through all that!

 

[ElvisandTilly]

I had a similar thing happen a couple of weeks ago with my old mare and my gelding. He chased her and it was awful, just glad he didn't get hold of her, I'm sure he'd have killed her. She had come into season that day.

Had some replies on HHO from people who suggested her hormones were giving wrong signals with it being her first season of the year. My gelding was removed from field for 10 days then put him back and they have both been fine since.

My mare has always been a very hormonal girl (tart!) and was on regumate quite a few years ago to settle her seasons as at one point she was stuck in season, that was when she had regumate to get her back to a more regular pattern.

The regumate should help to settle things if it is a season that the gelding is reacting to but if it is just out of nastyness could the gelding be moved or your mare put in another field. Too risky to let them sort it out. x

 

[sammy07780]

It would be a cheaper and much safer option just to kept her in a field with no geldings rather than use regumate if she is fine for you to handle and ride. Regumate should make her cycles more regular but this would only be of real importance if you were breeding from her.

 

[Happy2Hack]

Unfortunatly my yard dosen't have the land to offer seperate turnout - they all have to live together - which they have done quite happily for almost a year!