I have a little secret….

[Clodagh]

She’s not causing me any problems at all no. Ridden wise it’s made no difference and if she was purely stabled I’d not even know she was in season.
It’s the cornering my poor chap in the field with her constant desperation. I just figured it can’t be much fun for either.
If I could get the bloody fencing posts in I could separate them, but actually I’d rather if something herbal worked to calm the hormones and keep them as the happy little herd they have been up until now.

And will be again in a day or two. Try agnus castus first I suggest.

 

[poiuytrewq]

I just had a quick glance back at what is said, because the last few replies appeared to think I was about to just dose her up for the hell of it! I’m not planning on trying Regumate ( couldn’t afford to even if I’d wanted) I was just commenting to another poster who had a very hormonal mare, that someone I knew used it and it was amazing. That mare was extreme!
I just said I may try NAF (which is only herbal) IF it becomes a regular problem.

That’s all!! Promise!

 

[Exasperated]

I just had a quick glance back at what is said, because the last few replies appeared to think I was about to just dose her up for the hell of it! I’m not planning on trying Regumate ( couldn’t afford to even if I’d wanted) I was just commenting to another poster who had a very hormonal mare, that someone I knew used it and it was amazing. That mare was extreme!
I just said I may try NAF (which is only herbal) IF it becomes a regular problem.

That’s all!! Promise!

Your horses, your fields to split up, your money for ‘herbs’: it doesn’t affect anyone else, but it does read as tho’ the distress is also yours, rather than the gelding’s (posts 76, 80, 85)?
If he’s really fed up of being stalked (90), he will retaliate, and the mare will have better things to do, imminently.
Geldings are the totally unnatural ones here, this might be his first taste of more normal group life for a long time.
If nothing’s getting beaten up, ostracised, or otherwise terrorised, why interfere?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Your horses, your fields to split up, your money for ‘herbs’: it doesn’t affect anyone else, but it does read as tho’ the distress is also yours, rather than the gelding’s (posts 76, 80, 85)?
If he’s really fed up of being stalked (90), he will retaliate, and the mare will have better things to do, imminently.
Geldings are the totally unnatural ones here, this might be his first taste of more normal group life for a long time.
If nothing’s getting beaten up, ostracised, or otherwise terrorised, why interfere?

Let’s not turn this into anything serious or an argument please.
I was just thinking aloud.its a slight fly in the ointment of an otherwise very happy situation. I’m not posting this as an issue what do I do, it’s no biggy, It’s just a new mare owner thing.
It’s fine and I don’t want to ruin an otherwise happy thread over it.

 

[Exasperated]

Let’s not turn this into anything serious or an argument please.
I was just thinking aloud.its a slight fly in the ointment of an otherwise very happy situation. I’m not posting this as an issue what do I do, it’s no biggy, It’s just a new mare owner thing.
It’s fine and I don’t want to ruin an otherwise happy thread over it.

 

[Kirstineridesagain]

I rarely agree with @Exasperated ( ) but here I do. Mares generally get a bit tarty when they move herds.
I’ve always had mares and never fed a supplement, I did used to give them a day or two off if they felt like they needed it.

My mare did this when she came to me - at six months pregnant! The yo asked me to get her hormone levels tested, she didn’t think she was pregnant but on heat!

 

[Exasperated]

My mare did this when she came to me - at six months pregnant! The yo asked me to get her hormone levels tested, she didn’t think she was pregnant but on heat!

Yep, and you get the occasional mare will stand for the stallion throughout pregnancy.
Used to be a stallion locally always ran with a couple of mares and foals, some visiting ones, but seemed to have an (entirely consensual!) sex life year round with one of them - usually when walkers were rambling past, the owner had got relatives round for lunch or something - pair of exhibitionists! And she foaled most years, too.

 

[tda]

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