Mare owners- what do you do when they are VERY in season?

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My mare is REALLY in season, I have owned her since November and she has has seasons before but never like this! She is screaming for her field partner, napping & spooking when you ride her and she was very difficult to load on Saturday(she is always good).
She has also taken to rearing when you turn her out or catch her to the extent I have had to put her in a chiffiney.
She is on stroppy mare and she has been good in the past. How long can I expect her to behave like this?(never had mares before)
 
Mine is usually like that for a week then she calms down. During those particular days I just wrap myself up to look like the mitchelin man, shut my eyes and pray. Seems to work as I'm still here!

Sorry not very helpful but I just put up with it for a week and then everything is back to normal. It probably doesn't help that we are on a stud farm and we have a stallion on site.
 
put mine on a very expensive calmer - and spent a lot of time going backwards and spinning round - and one very mad moment being dragged through a bush then over a ploughed field!!!!!
 
So what I am experiencing is normal then??She has turned from the nicest horse to ride and do to a monster!
 
my mare is totaly the opposite mad all the time but goes like a donkey when in season but that's just like her has to do everything different to everyone else.
 
yes all very normal - mine is the lovliest ride - had her since august - then in march she went mad for a month (although still a poppet on the ground) - now all back to normal - i put her on high fibre cubes and a calmer and all is well now - good luck you ll soon get used to it
 
Lol mine is like that all summer, I have to put her on Regumate (sp) a special hormone much like the pill in humans which I get from my vet to stop her coming into season as she was dangerous to herself and others last year!
 
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Dont you just love em! I personally wouldnt have anything else x
 
It may be worth looking in to using Regumate this is the only decent product IMO for stroppy mares. Mine gets a bit more heady when in season and doesn't listen but otherwise she is good and safe still
 
Thanks for the suggestions. She has had plenty of seasons since I bought her but has never behaved like this. She has had a complete personality transplant!
 
Mine just stays the same (slow
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Both of my mares become VERY spooky and over react to everything and anything (a bit like me I suppose when it comes to that time of the month
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) I do not have mine on a calmer, although I am thinking of putting my younger mare on one because she is becoming a bit neurotic with things now she is getting fitter.
 
there used to be a very good product called slut mix. it was made by horse health (sussex) i believe that someone has now bought the company and started it up again they advertise in pegasus
 
we use Oestress by NAF, worked wonders. Think its a bit like everything, you need to try a few like this and regumate before you find the best thing for your particular mare.
 
I used Regumate when my mare had bad seasons - they would go on for ages, she'd scream her head off and she would become oblivious to everything and everyone with her mind on a certain something else!!!
I had her internally checked and then need only give her a couple of doses of regumate and she would return to normal again - it worked very well and quickly. It is very strong stuff and cannot be handled by women - gloves required.
Good luck!
 
if she is really really bad nothing!! catch her in field check her over feed her and then leave her there! The walk down to the yard down a passageway with geldings each side is a suicide mission. Thankfully this is rare.

Currently she is medium narkiness which means she rideable but I bring her in and turn out in her bridle so I don't get squashed. Once on board although a bit spookier she is happily rideable.

I have her on Oestress now, had her on it for just over a week and seems to be starting to make an effect. Mole Valley have it for £20 for 50 days supply and it now has magnesium as well so thought would give it a try now her seasons are starting in earnest again!
 
My mares are on simple systems total eclipe which has brewers yeast, which is supposed to help. They also have magnesium oxide. Seems to keep them calm. I think you just need to experiment, just bear in mind that most calmers takea while to kick in. If all else fails try regumate.
 
Regumate is strong stuff and bloody expensive!! I have had mine girl on it for 2 summers now, although what with the mild weather last winter she wasn't off it for very long. The first time she went on it there were remarkable results but this time around it is not stopping her coming into season and she is on a very high dose.
Im about to give up on it cos it isn't making a difference and my insuracne are about to stop paying!! At nearly £150 for a 6 week supply its not cheap!
 
Update on the moody mare:

Rode her at lunch time and she was perfect- back to her usually happy self!mares grrrrrrr!
 
My mare is a nightmare when she's in season; I can't usually get anywhere near her to even try to catch her, and on the few occasions she has been ridden when in season she is a bucking, bronking, rearing, napping monster.

After trying allsorts of potions & supplements she is now on regumate, and (most of the time) an angel. I'm amazed at it costing £150; but then again I pay cost price and I get the porcine preparation which is cheaper.

Top fertility vet John Pycock also recommends inserting a marble (yes, a normal glass marble) into the uterus as the mare is fooled into thinking she has a foetus in-utero and stops cycling. I didn't do that with Millie as I may want to put her in foal; they recon it's easy enough to get the marble out again if you want to breed but having rectalled plenty of mares, I'm unsure I'd be able to get one back out again!!!!
 
mine is fine temperment wise, maybe a little more spooky, BUT she pees all the time little stinky squirts constantly, it's getting embarassing hacking out now, oh, and she has to be practically beaten past the 30yo welsh gelding she has taken a fancy to
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put your mare in foal....no seasons for 11 months heaven!!!......my mare can be a complete cow at times to the point i dread going to the field to get her out!! cant put chiffney in as she will not tolerate anythin in her mouth so all i'm left with is a contoller head collar!!rest of time she is an absolute angel!
 
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