How do you no if its the trailer they dont like? HELP

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well try to make it short.

ive had my girl since she was 2 she arrived in a box herringbone was fine to load on and off of that box for about fours years it was friends box.

have since then rented transport and mostly used an ifor trailer which she was brill on and each time i used it she got better to load the worst she ever did was stand there for 5 mins then goes up with a carrot!

then a couple of times ive used a equitrek small box but it was about a two year gap inbetween using it.

so beg of this year i finally have the money to purchase my own and decided on a nice equitrek as really like them ,well have used it about 5 times first two times she was good but a bit akward to get back on to go home just stood there a little longer than normal then the 3rd time even longer and the 4th a little longer to fri when she really did not want to load to the point of rearing up which is so unlike her and finally going in with a lunge line behind her but when she got off was really sweating and stressed and stamping all the way home only a 15min journey thank god!

anyone else think i could be the trailer maybe the rear facing or just the journey the trailer gives?

im going to try and load her end of week in my friends ifor and see what i get from her?

just woundering if anyone else has had a simular experience?
 
Check the tyre pressures too, I had one who refused to load to come home in my trailer, it turned out one of the tyres was a bit flat, and we think that is what caused him to be awkward. Some are more sensitive than others.

Could be the rear facing aspect that she doesn't like, certainly one of my friends has a horse that cannot cope with facing forwards whilst travelling and gets into a real state, but is fine sideways on in a lorry.
 
Mine has in the past been a right toad to get into a trailer. He's always had a haynet and I drove behind him once just to see what was going on and he was munching the whole way and not upset, and the next time the blighter STILL wouldn't go in for about an hour.

He's fine in a lorry though, even if he has to load on his own.

Dunno what it is ...... flippin horses.
 
Our Fjord would load no problem but wouldn't unload. He tried to turn around all the time and ended up dislocating someone's shoulder!!
He then became a sod to load as well.
In the end I ended up importing a trailer from England with a front and rear ramp, cushions on the side and extremely light inside. Facing forwards to travel.
We practised with this a lot to get him used to it and now he loads no problem. Our yearling thinks its great to load into the trailer. He walks in by himself with or without the front ramp down.
Perserverance and patience are what is needed most.
 
How do you have it set up inside? Do you travel her alone? If so do you have the partition in? I only ask as a lady I know travels her horse alone and always leaves the partition in the middle (but makes it a little wider) so that he has two walls to balance against.
 
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