Interfering Liveries....

Yikes! No wonder your cross- when my horse was on box rest he started kicking the door for attention. Sadly dispite my best efforts he just wanted me to stay with him, which is not feaisable what with work etc.......

I came in and was unseen by the people there but saw their small child go towards him with a raised hand as if to smack him to stop him doing it, I fortunatly interveened at this point, probably a good idea- if he'd hit my horse I'd probably have floored the clild straight after :D did make me wonder what happend when I'm not there though, you would have though the child had seen someone else do it first to think it's acceptable?

Suffice to say I was livid- as if that horse being injured wasn't enough to be going on with at the time :mad:
 
You dont normally feed it in the stable, so whilst all the other horses are eating she mustnt, give it some hay, its a horse, its winter, take its mind off whats upsetting it, yes you care, but clearly are also not thinking straight.
 
putasocinit said:
You dont normally feed it in the stable, so whilst all the other horses are eating she mustnt, give it some hay, its a horse, its winter, take its mind off whats upsetting it, yes you care, but clearly are also not thinking straight.
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As I said before she has hay.

And Yes, I am thinking perfectly straight thankyou :)
 
Putasocinit... From what ive read she is. She's feeding hay as haylage upset her horses system.

Op, our vet recommended feeding hay and haylage together and upset stomachs stopped straight off so may be worth just a small amount when it goes out to the others if that's the issue.

Seems a very strong reaction though and I think I'd be getting vet out if behaviour had changed that drastically and nothing else obvious had.
 
Hate to say it but I've had this problem with my horse and it did boil down to being food and temper related. Unfortunately at a previous yard my horse wasn't given enough hay or hard feed and so was hungry a lot of the time, he started being really aggressive, protecting any feed or hay he had, but I had to move him off the yard with stables like the ones you mention. He's now in a stable built from concrete breeze blocks and whilst he still does do the double barrek
 
Blasted phone posted too soon!

Still does the double barrelling thing from time to time when feeds are coming or someone else gets hay before him, it has now improved a lot.

Can you leave a treat ball outside for people to put in before the yard gets busy, and ask others not to tie up near her door?

Ultimately you know your mare better than we do, so what do you think? My lad was very clearly a temper thing, as his behaviour got worse again after his recent colic when he had to be starved for a couple of days.

Hope you get her sorted out, nothing more frustrating than horrible behaviour like this that you feel powerless to stop!
 
Haven't read through all posts on this, so may not be relevant but read the bit about your mare double barrelling the door and charging around the stable and acting generally distressed and wondered if there is a possibility she could be suffering from ulcers?

Don't know how long you have had the mare, how old, how she's riding, if her feed has been changed recently etc but if other boxes are being ticked, e.g. she is become moody / grumpy, become nappy when ridden or showing other uncharacteristic problems when ridden, then this could be a possibility. Just a thought.
 
That's good. If it is ulcers the good news is the gastroguard seems very effective. Had a horse on our yard who had 3/4 grade ulcers and she has improved a lot in a, relatively, short period of time. Good luck!
 
The issue with haylage is it is around 50% water compared to hay at about 10% so horses are only consuming 1/2 the amount of fibre of hay and a lot more water. It is also more digestable than hay and horses need a certain portion of undigestible fibre to keep the gut working. A mix of hay and haylage is prob a good compromise.

Fingers crossed it works out.
 
we had a horse in our yard who did the same thing. He was a cranky old thing he bent the bars in the stables from kicking for no reason.. mucking him out was a nightmare cos he would suddenly lash out and if you were in the way that was ur own fault.. he lost alot of back shoes and was lame too due to kicking solid things.. he was the bosses horse and he wanted him in the middle of the yard for some strange reason where there was horses all around and alot of activiety..
one day when the boss was on holiday we moved him to an end stable that had blocks all around and he couldnt see any other horses. It was also a dark stable and we could turn off the light and he was in darkness... Horse was perfect never kicked again. we would take him out and tie him up in the wash bay to muck out and he was happy out in his own company.. When the boss came back he wanted him back in the middle of the yard Took alot more vet and farrier calls and banging for the boss to realise that the horse just doesnt like other horses or people and wants to sleep all day in the dark... The horse seemed to get happier and easier to ride after he moved..
 
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