napping, calmers, sep anxiety,agitation, self injury - found a cure!!

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Achinghips

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....... change yards.

Since moving from DIY to full livery the difference in my girl is phenomenal.

A solid routine where if one is in, they're all in - no screaming kids, barking dogs, out of routine tractors and generators, building works, dust and respiratory issues exacerbated by wood pellet bedding, poor fencing causing injury and vets bills, comings and goings of other diyers causing sep anx and agitation, poor routine at a YO's whim, expense on various calmers, reinforcing of walls due to kicking from agitation, moans about her hooning and wrecking fields, cold shouldering from other liveries as she food guards and kicks out, mucking about trying to find a mollass free, low protein diet to reduce fizz, worries about finding and funding hay, bringingin in the dark as no lighting and loosing a welly boot in the clay soil, bitching, ........ It may have only been £25 a week, but it REALLY wasn't worth it in vet's bills alone.

You really do get what you pay for - My god, wish I'd moved months ago, my girl has never looked so good, with no supplements AND mollassed chaff or been so calm and happy ..... and the amazing thing is that in the long run, the cost has worked out at about the same ................................................ and I don't need to muck out;).:D
 
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Thanks, it really is so hard to move yards. Moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar, where you don't know anyone and uprooting a difficult, unsettled horse is absolutely daunting and very stressful. I never thought I'd de-twonk this girl, the environment change for her was the answer.... still reeling with the shock .:)
 
Haha I had the exact opposite I moved from Full to DIY and my horse has gone from being all of those to being compleltey chilled, I think it helps that the yard is also no longer a "competition" yard, he gets daily turnout, hes in a mixed herd not individual turnout or just the walker for 20 mins and hes handled by the same person every day. Our DIY yard is also lovely and the first person up feeds them all (breakfasts left outside stables) then most people get up at a similar time to turnout so the horses are in the same routine!

On full livery he was pshyco and he hated it but now on DIY where only I deal with him apart from very very occasionally (if busy or away but he is then dealt with by one other person and kept in routine) he is like a donkey finally and is safe enough to let 9yr old novice children walk and trot round the school (17hh 9yr old warmblood).
 
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