horsey not liking girth done up

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any ideas here would be useful.

Horsey has suddenly taken a dislike to having his girth done up. You can put the saddle on him fine, but as soon as you even touch him with the girth he starts arching his back and moving around. once you get it on the first hole, you have to walk him around, then he lets you do it up another one, and when you are on him, he is fine with it.

He has only been doing this for a couple of weeks. He is fine to brush round his girth, and I have run my hands over where his saddle and girth go, there are no lumps, and he doesnt flinch away from me.

He also did this the same time last year, so I was wondering if it was maybe down to the loss of his winter coat, and being a TB maybe he feels it a bit, although he the biggest girls blouse ever known, and does tend to overdramatise things!

I use an ordinary girth with a prolite sleeve over it (and have been doing for the past year), and there is nothing to stick into him on the girth, I have checked.

Any ideas???
 
Could try a prolite girth sleeve failing that may be he has tight muscles and it is his way of telling you?
 
tried girth sleeve - triend longer girth
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My friends horse acts like that if he is cold - his back goes right up and with the look on his face you'd think his girth was going to eat him!
 
Hi yah would agree with last couple of posts. Get his back checked, if they start to fidget and blow up when you reach for the girth it can sometimes be their way of telling you that they're a bit uncomfortable in that area because as your doing the girth up you may be pulling the saddle down tighter onto the area where they may be a bit sore. If it's not something your chap has done before then it's worth listening to him and check it out.
 
I would suspect saddle - if he did the same thing this time last year then it may be that he is finding the saddle a bit tight. the grass has suddenly grown in the last 3 weeks and he could have really added on a few pounds. Girthing issues are normally back related rather than just girth
 
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