zandp
Well-Known Member
Just a quick update. One of my first posts on here was asking for advice about my youngster, who'd got quite uncontrollable.
Her behaviour didn't get much better over the last few months and she became impossible to catch. Now I've had difficult to catch horses before but she was truly impossible.
Last week I moved yards again. 3rd move in a year so not ideal for her. We went back to a yard that I left almost exactly a year ago. This yard has herd turnout and it really seems to have been the key.
She's turned back into the horse she was, she's much happier, she's definitely not top of the herd anymore, she's behaving wonderfully. Both her and my other mare remembered all the horses, they're in the same field we were in last year. Everything's now calm again in our world. She's coming to call in a 10 acre field
, she's much better behaved with her feet and is just generally a happier horse.
So I've learnt a few vital lessons - mostly that she definitely needs to be in a herd, not just in a little group. There's only 5 of them but it seems to be enough.
Her behaviour didn't get much better over the last few months and she became impossible to catch. Now I've had difficult to catch horses before but she was truly impossible.
Last week I moved yards again. 3rd move in a year so not ideal for her. We went back to a yard that I left almost exactly a year ago. This yard has herd turnout and it really seems to have been the key.
She's turned back into the horse she was, she's much happier, she's definitely not top of the herd anymore, she's behaving wonderfully. Both her and my other mare remembered all the horses, they're in the same field we were in last year. Everything's now calm again in our world. She's coming to call in a 10 acre field
So I've learnt a few vital lessons - mostly that she definitely needs to be in a herd, not just in a little group. There's only 5 of them but it seems to be enough.