My mare is seriously taking the pee - advice please

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My mare has started to really take the pee - she falls in really badly (she basically runs in sideways) but if you stop her she sticks a massive buck in
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I'm twisted through my hips and pelvis (I'm getting treatment for this) and it doesn't help the problem but I am able to sit straight in the saddle.

Anyone have any advice please? She goes through stages like this then she'll be an angel for a few weeks again but it's got to stop. The main problem is no one has been able to sit to her buck - I'm getting better at it (managed to sit for three yesterday
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She doesn't have back problems and her teeth were done three weeks ago and there were no problems there. She's just a stroppy madam really
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I've cut down her feed as much as poss - she gets 3/4 scoop maintenence nuts and two scoops dengie hifi over two feeds with garlic and benevit plus haylage as there isn't much grass.

Sorry for rambling - cookies if you got this far (and have advice)
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Hi I'm no expert as I'm a gelding lover ! But a friend of mine had problems with her mare bucking, not all the time but similar to how you describe. Anyway one day she was at a show and the mare went bucking round the show ring ! After the class the judge came over to us and suggested she try Ostress (I think thats how you spell it?) Anyway it did the trick and sorted her out. Why I don't know but it did.
Good luck
 
Forgot to mention - her hormones are fine. I get a blood test done once a year as she had problems with them when she was younger.

Maybe I can get Shils to stuff her for me....
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It could be she has back pain when in season? Some mares do seem to suffer from painful ovaries...trying Regumate or similar might work.
It does sound pain-related in your mare - bucking etc is an awful lot of effort to go to, just to avoid falling in, so there's probably an underlying issue.
Is she 100% sound (don't mean to be rude)? Sometimes they go on three tracks if they're lame behind.
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She gets her back done every three months - was done on March 17th... She isn't in season anymore - I always give her a week off for the first season of the year because she gets pain from it
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She looks sound on the lunge... I think she bucks because she knows she can get people off and avoid work all together - she has been known to stand and snooze while I scrape myself off the floor
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I'd like her in a sleeping pose please - it's what she does best
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Sell her and get a gelding
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Agree with others it does sound pain related might be worth getting you saddle checked to see if tree not cracked and when you ask for certain movements it may be pinching her. Who checked her back did they watch when she was being ridden or just felt her from the ground?
 
If you have some sort of physical problem that is preventing you from riding your mare effectively - then to me that would seem to be the answer to your mare's problem.

How does she go for your instructor??
 
My instructor won't ride her anymore
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I think I'll get the saddle looked at - I'm after a new saddle anyway so this can be an excuse
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We have a mare who sounds very much like your mare, we don't buck she rears and when I mean rear I mean rear she goes up vertical.
In the lesson she 's up and down for about 15 mins then stops and goes fantastic, we then go for weeks with really good behaviour.She has been sent to newmarket for every check possible and there is no physical reason for her behaviour, we are now treating it as a mental issue.
She has been on every calmer/supplement with varying degrees of success.
She is such a fantastic mare who is capable of so much as assesed by a top dressage trainer, but these issues are putting paid to this, mares ,give me my gelding any day even with his temper of late!.

I wish you luck.
 
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