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poglet1991

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hi there,
I need some advice re what to do with my mare please :)

I'll give you some background before i start. I've had her 4 years and shes always been very bolshy, however shes not consistently naughty and has a very jeckyll and hyde sort of personality. shes a 10 year old cob and has had atleast one foal before i bought her. she seems to just flip personality when she sees something exciting or is put under pressure. shes a bit of a tart and seems to always be in season though for the first few years this never seemed to effect her personality. This last summer her personality completely changed and she became agressive and abit mental so i rang the vet and he recommended regumate, she went on it for a month and was a different horse :) the idea was we would have her scanned to see if anything was wrong with her ovaries if she responded to it however the vet went off the face of the earth and she seemed settled when i took her off it. shes been fine all summer since though probably slightly more exciteable than normal. the last month or so shes been really bad if shes sees/ hears another horse while i'm leading or riding, she tries bucking me off to get to them and i can no longer hack in company even with the most chilled horse as she just kicks off!

i'm not sure if shes just feeling fresh as i can't ride through the week with the dark nights, though she is normally lazy but exciteable if that makes any sense :s

but then i also think i should now get hold of a different vet and get her scanned. Also i don't know wether ulcers are something to think about as they cause behaviour change, but i know little about them so could just be barking up the wrong tree lol.

Also i would like to know the costs side of it all, shes insured with NFU but do i have to pay if it turns out shes just a mardy mare, or is it relatively low cost and worth just paying straight out for anyway?

sorry for the rant, i'm just unsure of what to do. Thank you very much for anyone who got this far :)
 
I would get her scanned, it doesn't cost alot and may answer many questions. The scan itself should cost less than your insurance excess but if there's something going on you should be covered and regumate is pricey. Good luck.
 
anj789 said:
I would get her scanned, it doesn't cost alot and may answer many questions. The scan itself should cost less than your insurance excess but if there's something going on you should be covered and regumate is pricey. Good luck.
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Thanks, yeh i think if nothing else it will put my mind at rest lol :) I just hope it does come up with something and she can be sorted.
 
Blood tests should be run before Regumate is prescribed.

Our mare went from being a bit tricky when in season to being a danger to herself and to us- she put her head through a window trying to attack her reflection- and bloods showed a ridiculously high level of testosterone in her blood. The Regumate was making her worse in the way it worked.
 
I had an ID mare who behaved like a stallion - v tricky to handle, kicked/bit/reared on the ground, v protective of my other mare, v bold/aggressive under saddle.

Got her scanned, she had a tumour on her ovary. Got it removed - it was the size of a football & weighed 15 lbs.

6 weeks later, her hormones normalised & the tricky behaviour stopped. But then she wasn't bold/aggressive enough jumping for me, so I sold her!

T x
 
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