JK-min
Active Member
Hi all. My mare has currently been without turnout for a week and a half now. She is lunged everyday (worked 4 times a week, allowed to do whatever she wants to get the energy off not on a circle the other 3 times as I’m cautious of her joints), hand grazed most days for a short while, given ad lib hay, a treat ball, she has lickits in her stable and also has a feed. She is never short of food.
She will continue to be without turnout for another month :-( I’m disappointed as I’m on the yard I’m on because other agreements were made, but it is just something I have to cope with!
She was coping really well, but she has now taken to being extremely moody in the stable (I don’t blame her!) She has started threatening to bite, turning her bum on me, attacking my shavings fork, attacking her net, she really isn’t happy.
Unfortunately, I KNOW she needs a little bit of turnout. She likes to run and socialize and even if she only did that a couple of times a week she is like a different pony. But it’s really taking it’s toll being without that.
My question is, does anyone have any advice on how we can get through the next month? Moving is not an option and there is light at the end of the tunnel, it’s just a month long tunnel…
She will continue to be without turnout for another month :-( I’m disappointed as I’m on the yard I’m on because other agreements were made, but it is just something I have to cope with!
She was coping really well, but she has now taken to being extremely moody in the stable (I don’t blame her!) She has started threatening to bite, turning her bum on me, attacking my shavings fork, attacking her net, she really isn’t happy.
Unfortunately, I KNOW she needs a little bit of turnout. She likes to run and socialize and even if she only did that a couple of times a week she is like a different pony. But it’s really taking it’s toll being without that.
My question is, does anyone have any advice on how we can get through the next month? Moving is not an option and there is light at the end of the tunnel, it’s just a month long tunnel…