Mare wont load but always has before any advice?

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sallyellis

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Hi I was supposed to be going on a fun ride today with my friend who kindly offered to take us both in her trailer. Now my mare has always been ok to load the only time she has played up it only took 10 minutes to persuade her to go in and normally she is a real sweety, but today she would not go in my friends box, we tried for 90 minutes and then we agreed to call it a day...I then tried her in my trailer which she loaded in just for a practice session 2 weeks ago fine, no joy another hour with no luck, so just to get her to end on a positive note we took her round to the yard up the lane to put her on my friends lorry and she wouldnt go in there either what do you think can be wrong?
 
I had similar issues recently.
Mare is a good loader, but couple of weeks ago took over an hour. After SJ took another 30 mins to load.
I have now put her on "stroppy mare" to smooth out the peaks and troughs.
She is now back to normal.
Hormones, season, who knows?????
Girls eh?????????
 
Nope she only went in the trailer and back out again as it was just a practice, the time before that was when she was delivered back from stud and seemed perfectly happy.

It could be that she is in season, as she has been happily popping over the fence to visit my colt in the field next door all week making the most of his delayed gelding grrrr mares!
 
My mare loaded fine, I bought a box then after a few months she started taking longer and eventually wouldn't go in. I now use a monty roberts headcollar and have given her a mirror as she doesnt like travelling alone and she gets a treacle like whilst she travels. She's loading fine at moment.
 
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