Moved horse recently

[Breezesbenefactor]

She's on fire, I've moved her off her hardfeed to grass and hay as she'll not be working as much. Have ridden her for an hour in the school and she is on fire, it takes about half an hour for her to settle herself is this down to the quantity of grass that is now available or a combination of the move/ feedchange. Any advice would be appreciated though generally I'm pleased as to how well she has settled in

 

[RLF]

try lunging her first then get on

 

[tanflislibs]

spring grass, my mare is having a little episode aswell, she finds everything so exciting!!

charging at jumps a few times (she's young and does it somethimes anyway though) and speeding after another horse in the menage, launching into canter. i find it quite fun! but she has recovered from injuries an dit's good that she feels better. your mare is probably having too much spring grass, i would advise a small amount of hard feed chaff, mixed with a probiotic supliment, or a laminitus sup incase. the chemicals will balance it and help keep horses a bit wild on spring grass or having too much, eg blue chip laminae. also, lunge until she has lost her edge, it could be dangerous if she is going a bit loop. you could ask your YO to section off a smaller feild for her so she doesnt get as much?

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

Lunged her on Monday don't get me wrong I can manage her in the school (though I admit she almost bucked me off this morning) just need to be reassured I'm taking the right line with her. We do a lot of walking together around the yard and all the items she initially spooked at we've looked at them together just to reassure her that they're not going to eat her!!

I have a potential rider coming tomorrow to see if she's keen to work her for a couple of hours during the week when I can't ride her....I know this is going to be bad.

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

I've already taken to strip grazing though I'm cautious to carry on the hard feeding as she will eat to excess and I've managed to get her to a nice weight (though a few more pounds before spring wouldn't go amiss). Though she has gone fruit loop a couple of times I've managed to keep it under control as her spark doesn't last that long...though I'm a little concrened about this lady tomorrow I can see this going very wrong but she has had the option to bail out. She's not a difficult ride but she knows how to intimidate, still I'll be there as a first aider so we shall see.

 

[RLF]

she's probably just excited from the move and new surroundings. Be careful with this rider I would ride/lunge her first just to be on the safe side. People are far to quick to sue these days.

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

Bloody good point, I'll be riding her in the morning so should hopefully knock the stuffing out of her. I'm sitting here worrying like mad about it, I felt she could have asked more questions and when I was telling her about some of her magic tricks it was like...yeah yeah. I'm told she is quite a good rider lets hope this is true I'm sure there is nothing to fear!!!

 

[RLF]

good luck, keep us informed.

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

Contract/agreement written, so signy no ridey.

 

[RLF]

LOL

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

That's what I love about the horsey world - they never read anything; my last livery contract I wrote and they never read it as it had a clause regarding the yard manager washing my car and making me tea after I'd finished riding together with a whole other host of bizarre nasties which, when thinking about it had anything gone wrong I'd be the proud owner of a lovely yard!!(lol)

 

[RLF]

remind me never to sign one of your contracts.

 

[henryhorn]

Probably due to the grass, it's bright green here and judging fom the way many of the retired horses have started playing in the field it is giving them extra energy.
You could try putting pink powders in the food fr a week or so, that settles any change of diet. (just give a handful of low cal food with it in)

 

[Magicmillbrook]

Remember that she is used to working daily and had virtualy no grass at her last yard. Once your current section is eaten down a bit and the novelty has worn off you will be fine. If you consider using some pink powder or other calmer, put it in some plain chaff. TBH a calmer will help if she is being stressy or worried, although it sounds as though she is just feeling a bit 'whoopeee' - enjoy it!

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

Sound advice, yet the rocket ship has now landed!!! I rode her today and she was her usual self - Still a bit nervous as everything is still new but we'll school in the mroning and go for a little walk after