My very dominant mare

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You may have read The_Stropsters post on my mare. She is a complete nightmare with other horses. She genuinely acts like she wants to kill them, she doesn't just warn them, she keeps going even when they run off. Not all yards offer individual turnout though, so if I moved, would I have difficulty in getting in anywhere, owning such a mareish horse? Also we have never kept them together for long as she is such a threat, even going for the yearling and shettie, do things eventually settl e down or do I accept she will always have to live alone? At the moment the herd consists of a mare, a gelding, a yearling and a shettie, and then my mare who is taped off. She goes for all of them by the way.
 
Amy could be pretty damn aggressive with other horses - and I would never have dreamt of allowing her to be turned out with a youngster, as that was a sure fire recipe for disaster.

I kept her very successfully for 12 years at the same livery yard - within a stable herd, and there was only the odd bit of trouble whenever a new horse was introduced (which wasnt very often). However, when she was moved to a friends to become a broodmare, life was a little more explosive. And eventually she was segragated.
 
My mare is very dominant. However, she was fine at the last yard as she had a 5 acre field with just two others. People have stupidly in the past turned her out in a smaller paddock (when I have warned them) and I am afraid to say the owners ended up with a vets bill. Now she is is a small paddock on her own.
 
Huh? They are in the biggest field we have. The horses could have a huge field and the mare backs into them kicking out.
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I think they could have 10 acres and she would still be after them. I just worry that I will be socially unaccepted in any other yard. Have been at three other yards, not with my present horse, and would not have been allowed individual paddocks there. So would have had no choice but to put here in with a load of mares. Fortunately in the past I have not owned anything as dominant as Liri.
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If she's inclined to kick, you must tell the yard owners and explain that she's best segregated.
If the YO says no, she must go out with the others, you should ask the other livery owners for permission (telling them how dominant she is). If they are not happy, then YO is obligated to give you individual turnout.
I have my own electric fencing tape, posts, unit and car battery....if you did, too, then you could fence her off into a corner of the field if the YO lets you.
Difficult situation, hope things work out,
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have you tried feeding stroppy mare? my mare calmed down completely when sshe went on it. there was no more barging but now im on a new yard and we all get 2 fields each for our horses (only 3 on the yard) and there is no probs
 
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Who says???? I'm not sure that's the case actually.
 
Thanks Shilasdair, appreciate advice. ThaeanAlice, saw that stroppy mare, maybe worth a try. She's not stroppy with people, but may make her a bit more tollerant of other horses.
 
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Well, she'd be liable for the injuries to the others....which is about the same thing, I reckon....
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Again - I'm not sure that she would be......
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My loan mare is v dominant. Owner warned me she couldn't be turned out with other alpha mares and that she needed to be with other, more submissive mares, with geldings, or alone. She is out with an ex racer mare who is v submissive and they get on brilliantly. She's fine with the other mares over the fence as well, I just wouldn't want her out with them and she can be quite crabby when in season.

I called my YO (have been on the yard ages anyway with my pony) to discuss it with her as if the yard couldn't accomodate her I wouldn't have taken her. YO was fine, said she would find a suitable TO companion and introduce them slowly. It's worked and even the owner is amazed at how well they get on.
 
Thats interesting. Trouble is Liri has given herself quite a reputation at current yard so she'll be staying on her own there. Its difficult to know when they are like that whether they are genuinely nasty pieces of work, or whether they feel threatened and are trying to protect themselves.
 
I just think she feels threatened by Lizzie, the other dominant mare as she is fine with the yearling because she is so submissive and dippy
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Liri's main target has been Lizzie, she has gone for D and the Shettie but she is not as persistant with them as she knows they will back off. Although Liz is backing off it's almost as though she is just making sure she knows who's boss by keeping going at her.
I don't think she is evil, nasty horse just dominant
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