blissful-nat
New User
recently my mare has started to pull faces when I take her rugs off! sometimes when i put them on too (but not as often). Its usually when I take her stable rugs off to put her turnout rug on. she has been doing it for about a month now and has never done this before.
she is a fussy mare and does no how to take her rugs off and i have on many occasions found her in her box and she has taken up to two rugs off!, she will also tell me what rugs she wants on by pulling them down while I'm standing their and trying to flick them onto her back (yes she is very clever). she is in a Medium weight turnout at the moment so i turned her out naked this morning to see weather she just wanted a role but no she moped at the gate for her rug!
the only theory i have for why she is doing this is that she spent the whole of last winter in her box on 6 months box rest (for her second tendon injury) and she doesn't want to go out in the wet cold mud etc as she will napp and wont come out of her box sometimes. but i thought it sounded a bit far fetched.
any suggestion on whats causing this and how i can stop it?? please
she is a fussy mare and does no how to take her rugs off and i have on many occasions found her in her box and she has taken up to two rugs off!, she will also tell me what rugs she wants on by pulling them down while I'm standing their and trying to flick them onto her back (yes she is very clever). she is in a Medium weight turnout at the moment so i turned her out naked this morning to see weather she just wanted a role but no she moped at the gate for her rug!
the only theory i have for why she is doing this is that she spent the whole of last winter in her box on 6 months box rest (for her second tendon injury) and she doesn't want to go out in the wet cold mud etc as she will napp and wont come out of her box sometimes. but i thought it sounded a bit far fetched.
any suggestion on whats causing this and how i can stop it?? please
