Mare's aggressive behaviour in field... supplement???

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My new mare is stabled next to my dominant mare and is very submissive to her in the stable environment.is Although they are not in a field together (I have them split into two groups, my dominant mare and my chestnut mare are on one side and my 4 year old, 3 year old gelding and a friend's 18 year old gelding are on the other side) she seems to look to her for guidance.

In the field they have a double set of electric fencing between them, but when I bring in my dominant mare the new one (she is 4 years old) gets very upset and is most attached. However, I think this will improve as it is only day 2 of them being out next to each other.

However, my 4 year old mare is very aggressive towards my 3 year old gelding who I was hoping would live out with her in a few weeks. She chases him, bites him and really lashes out with her back legs at him. But, she does not do this with the 18 year old gelding who is also with them.

My 3 year old gelding is very submissive and a little hen pecked. He has lived out the last two years so is that laid back he is almost horizontal, but I don't want him being picked on the way he is being at the moment :(

My 4 year old mare has had her ovaries scanned and all was normal.

I know they do a supplement for riggy geldings who show aggression, but are there any supplements on the market for very dominant mares?

Has anyone had this issue and it resolved with time?
 
Quite typical for a youngster to be bullied.

I'd move her in with the other mares to avoid trouble for the wee man.
 
amymay said:
Quite typical for a youngster to be bullied.

I'd move her in with the other mares to avoid trouble for the wee man.
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I can't really put her in with the two older mares as they will not be going out that much and I wanted her out 24/7 ideally this summer... Plus, my older ladies have back shoes on so just not worth putting the new girl out with them as she will get kicked :(
 
Hilton Herbs do one that worked well for me - Equilibrium, it could also be the time of the year - my younger mare always gets very aggressive at the beginning of Spring and the end of Autumn.
 
My 3 year old tb got same treatment as your new mare and it does settle eventually :) We did the intros properly him a field next to the others for just over a week and then introduced the other horses one by one. The mares seemed to take him under their wing but the geldings seem to take a dislike to him -esp my own . To me it was a sorting out of the pecking order and yes he came in with a few scrapes but we now have a herd where they know their place and 99% of the time we have peace and harmony :) One thing that really seemed to help the relationship with my two which seemed to be the major flashpoint (maybe a bit of jealousy) was I took them everywhere together eg hand grazed them together,one in a box eating haylage one outside with haylage , ride and lead and they eventually seemed to get that the 3 yo was not a threat to my 9 yo and likewise everytime my 9 yo was near my 3yo he wasn't going to chase,kick,bite him . Ifyou can bear it I would just leave them to sort themselves out - boot them up and stick a rug to try and minimise the scrapes and don't look :) :)
 
Mags in extremely dominant to the others - she bullies Harry mercilessly, but he pines if he's not in the field with her (if he was human I'd swear he was a masochist :p). Once they sort themselves out they're fine though, we just make sure that when they all go out 24/7 they've not got back shoes on. With her it seems to be inherited - her dam and grandam were both "proper madams" with the vet predicting that we'd never get her dam in foal as she was so dominant but she only ever took one covering :D
 
Thanks everyone...

My new mare does not have back shoes on, so the damage she has done to him is pretty superficial. He has two hoof shaped grazes on his botty but no swelling, heat or soreness from what I can see.

They are now rugged up due to the rain, so that should help a little.

I know thge ideal scenario would be to put her out with my two older ones as my eldest mare is the alpha and she would take no messing at all. However, as they both have back shoes on I don't feel it is worth risking it. They cannot have their back shoes removed as both competed and both require shoes due to foot conformation etc etc. Plus, the eldest is hacked regularly and will not cope without back shoes as we do a lot of road work.
 
My mare has been on Magic Calmer and it has worked wonders although she is still dominant in the field! She is alot more settled and loving. They say if it doesnt work within 2 weeks, it wont work at all. To be honest, it worked almost instantly with mine.:)
 
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