PLEASE HELP!! CAN ANYONE GIVE ME SOME ADVICE ON MY NEUROTIC MARE?

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I am at my whits end, my 15.2 TB mare has gone to her third loan home now after two disastrous ones. I was so confident that the lady that has her now was the perfect home for her, which it would be if she hadnt completely lost the plot and is scaring everyone.
Basically you cant take any horse out of the field without her barging at the gate and going nuts, she cant be on her own as she is even worse, even sectioned on her own and able to see the others she just gallops up and down. Even when the lady brings her out in the mornings for her breakfast she goes nuts and wont eat. Leading her down the driveway is impossible but bizarely (if she can manage to get her tack on) she is good as gold to hack out.
I have had this problem with her in the past and problems with seasons and seperation anxiety but when she had her marble fitted she seemed to settle.

If we cant get this problem under control then i am going to have her back again and i just cant afford to keep two at the moment and I just dont know what i am going to do with her! its so frustrating.

Any advice would be much appreciated! :confused:
 
The best thing you can do is to avoid leaving your mare on her own. Horses which are being lonely can become more agressive and frisky. Have you tried to take her out of the field with the other horse? Maybe she needs to be led on chiffney? Maybe leaving her in a field with some calm and slow pony would help?
Is her diet well - balanced? Why don't you try to give some Magnesium, sometimes it helps to calm down a horse?

By the way, frequent changing home can make a horse quite nervous, so be careful, let the horse to get used to new conditions and calm down
 
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Well I feel sorry for you and your mare, seems nobody is giving her time to settle down. I bought a gelding many years ago that took 18 months to settle, he walked a straight track along side the fence. then I bought a pig(sow) and breed several more he loved them, specially the piglets, I have photos of them hanging from his tail,scratching their backsides on his legs etc, they lived in the stable next to him.
Still have the track that my old horse walked, it's pretty deep, sometimes you have to have a little patience, but things do come right,depends how much time your loaner wants to give her.
 
Echo the others, she sounds very stressed. Time and patience and no other pressures. Lots of grooming and on the floor stuff. Hope she settles.
 
Echo Bravo is right, sometimes the only cure is time. Especially you said, the horse was changing homes, people, probably horse-mates quite often. It didn't help her at all. :(
 
Ah thanks guys, i love this mare so much and your right, she does get stressed easily and loves lots of fuss and attention, ive told her loaner this and she is trying her best!! she has texted me today and said she seems alot happier, i think she just needed some time to ajust to her new surroundings. Im keeping my fingers crossed that tis home will work out for the both of them, thanks for your comments/advice xx
 
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