Oh Dear Panicking!

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Firewell

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This morning I moved my horse to a new livery yard, she was at her old one for 3 years and was very settled there. Shes used to going to shows and although she can be on her toes she usually settles and works ok, she also been to a championship show for 3 days and was fine there. so WHY at her new yard is she going completely barmy???

She was a little 'lit up' when i brought her off the lorry but nothing unusual considering she was in a strange place, I walked her round a bit to get her bearings and then put her in her new field.

She cantered around her field, sniffed her neighbours noses over the fence and then started totting up and down the fence line by them, they got bored and wandered off. She then started
haring around the field at a million miles an hour. I left her and went back an hour later to check on her and she was still going crazy. she was having a right panick attack, eyes on stalks, sweating, veins up, nose blood red. I called her and she came thundering over to me, let me stroke her and talk to her for a split second and then she went hooling off again
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I made myself go away for another hour and then went to check her again. She was even worse... trotting and galloping round her field still (on the rock hard ground). she was covered in sweat, foam and dirt where she had rolled and was in a right state, again I called her over ,she trotted to me, snatched some grass out of my hand and off she went again at a gallop. she had a complete mad look on her face.

I couldnt bring her in as the shavings for her stable havent arrived and i think she would have gone mad in her stable so I made my self leave. Im now sitting at home panicking like crazy, im so fightened shes going to break her leg or somin, she had been galloping solidly for 3 hours in the burning sunshine when I left.
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If shes still like it tonight wot shall i do?? I was thinking of bringing her in later, giving her a cold shower and her feed and turning her back out again (she lives out 24/7 at mo) but then what if she is still going mad into the night?? Im so worried about her
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I would be worried too. She should have settled by now. Is she in a field on her own? Seeing others, but not being able to get to them might be frustrating for her.

I would be worried she might injure her legs/tendons and give herself colic.

Have you tried spending time with her to give her reassurance?

See how she is tonight surely she would have calmed down by then, she must be exhausted. She how she is and take things from there.
 
is there not a quiet horse that could go out with her,this might help her settle,whenever i have moved horses i have always put them in the stable over night to settle then turned them out in the morning in a little padock with horses near by,hopefully she will settle if not i would get her in and put her in the stable over night in case she hurts her self
 
I'd try and keep her in tonight I think, but only if your shavings have arrived and she has company. (Could you load your car up and fetch shavings yourself if its not delivered?) Would a calmer help do you think, just to help her settle?

Can you put any boots on her for her field antics?

I am sure she will settle though, just may take a bit longer than you might like!
 
Believe me i'm no expert on this but when my horse was moved he was left in his stable over night to settle - wormed - then let out the next day.

He seems really distressed bless him. Hope you sort him out.
 
Thank u every1, my mum said maybe i should bring her in tonight too... If shes no better I may. The horses are kept individually there (and shes used to being on her own) but they have field friends next to them all the time. HB6 i think your idea is good and i might take a book and go and sit in the field for an hour with her. My poor girlie, shes such a sensitive thing but I didnt expect this!
I have put boots on all round....
 
Fire, thats what I would have done, taken a good book in, sit in a place where she cant run you over.

Well done with the boots, didnt know if you could catch her. Def bring her in tonight, hose her legs and hopefully she will calm down esp if she is used to being in on her own.

Moving yards is not just stressful for horses!

I really hope she is ok. Poor sensitive girlie
 
phew, i went to see her this afternoon and she was a bit better
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. The old chestnut horse the other side of the fence had decided to take my girl under her wing and was standing with her.

I brought her in for a wash (no injuries thank god) and her dinner, she was a bit jumpy and shaky but she ate her food and calmed down with me fiddling with her. I then grazed her in hand while we watched some horses in the school, by this point she was quite calm so I turned her back out again with her boots on. I put her haylage next to the fence where the chestnut horse was and when i left my girl was picking at her hay with the chestnut horse watching over her.

Hopefully (fingers crossed) she'll continue to get better. Its ment to b a bit stormy tonight but all the horses have gone out in her stable block so if I had kept her in she would have been on her own. I think the chestnut will look after her if she gets frightened.

mactara u are right, shes always ridden when we go somewhere usually, i think thats why she was so confused!

I hope it will be alright now!!! (v nervewracking going to a new yard and not knowing any1!)
 
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