Jumping out of stable!

[SNORKEY]

My mad beast decided he'd just jump straight over his stable door this morning as his field mates went out before him, he still had other horses with him on the yard, he's taken the hair off his back legs but seems ok apart from that. Then he broke the tie up rail whist i was trying to clean his wounds.
Im starting to loose my patience with him as he is such a nutter at times, he is still settling in his new yard but he is going to start getting on the other livery's nerves now im sure.
Has anyone elses horse ever done this?

 

[Morrigan_Lady]

I had a horse do this on my yard once and as it landed it slipped and broke its leg and had to be PTS! Not want to scare you, but Id be putting a grill up if I were you.

 

[AmyMay]

Your poor horse is taking an age to settle isn't he?

What routine have you got him in now?

 

[saddlesore]

Have you moved him fairly recently? My last horse took months to settle when i moved him!

 

[SNORKEY]

He is taking ages to settle and even though one of the horses is bullying him in the field he still wants to be with it all the time, he jumped out of his stable a couple of times when he was a foal, and I am worried about him breaking a leg, im hoping now he's gonna be the first out with his filed mates he'l be ok, roll on May when he's allowed out at night.

 

[girla]

Ditto with moonwalker, put a grill up and show him that you won't tolerate it. With the pulling back, i would tie him again on string, but i used to attached a lunge line to the head collar and thread through the tie too, so when he pulled back and snapped the tie i would pull back on the lunge line to let them know they were still tethered. You had to be quick and patient but i found in the end it paid off and he gave up because he knew he couldn't go any where.

Good Luck

 

[AmyMay]

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Ditto with moonwalker, put a grill up and show him that you won't tolerate it. With the pulling back, i would tie him again on string, but i used to attached a lunge line to the head collar and thread through the tie too, so when he pulled back and snapped the tie i would pull back on the lunge line to let them know they were still tethered. You had to be quick and patient but i found in the end it paid off and he gave up because he knew he couldn't go any where.

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I totally disagree with this advice.

My horse took many, many months to settle at my yard when I first bought him. And tying him up on the yard was something I simply couldn't risk doing (if I wanted him to remain in once piece). Whilst a grille is not a bad idea - if the horse wants to jump out, it probably won't stop him - unless it's a full grill.

It's not about showing the horse you won't tollerate certain types of behaviour, it's about understanding what is making the fret so much, and adjusting our behaviour to help them.

Personally if this were my horse he'd be going out at whatever time the first horse goes out, and I would be working everything else around that.

Good luck, I know how difficult it can be.

 

[emmiec12]

One of my hunters used to do this on a daily basis - we put anti-weave bar up.... it seemed to do the trick.

 

[SNORKEY]

He has'nt usually got a problem tying up its just his wound stung a bit when i cleaned it out and he just decided like he does he was'nt putting up with it, and the rail must of been rotten, as that broke and not the string!
He's been really good since last thursday so im hoping this is only a little glitch in his settling in that wont happen again.

 

[skewbald_one]

Jumping out the stable is a worry .When my foal tried to do it I put a strand of electric fence across the doorway. At eye level.
we only had to electrify it once he got the message. If your horse knows what electric fence is, you may not even have to turn it on. As he got used to not panicking we moved the tape lower. He has a great respect for his door now.

 

[Speedy]

My mare did this in January - except it was a great big cattle yard and she jumped a five bar gate from a standstill. I'd only stuck her in there waiting for the farrier. She got the surcingle from her rug caught which stopped her jumping it cleanly and fell on her face. Her right hind went between the gate and the wall and she ripped her hock open on the hinge. She was thrashing abuot face first on the yard and I was desperately trying to get her up when she got loose and fell in a heap. I thought she was a goner, but my vet stitched her up and we stabled her in a box with a grill for two weeks. Her knees were so bruised that the skin fell off about two weeks later, but everything has healed well and the hair is growing back now.