Pressing bum, squealing then kicking stable wall

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does anyone have a mare who does anything similar. I have a really sweet mare but she can be very temperamental when in season and still shows these signs but to a lesser degree when not in season.

she is sometimes uncomfortable being touched near the ovary area and when pressure is put on her back end, she will most often squeal and then kick. sometimes in the stable, she will back onto the stable wall and press her bum against it, squeal and then kick the wall.

i'm not sure if this is hormonal behaviour, discomfort or just random.

if you have ever experienced this please let me know thanks.
 
I would keep a diary of when she is in season and when you observe this behaviour and see if they match up. Some mares suffer from large haemorrhagic follicles with delayed ovulation - this can be painful. However, I have also seen similar behaviour in a mare with a Sacro-iliac injury - although she didn't finish by kicking the wall (she is a sweet tempered mare). Pushing the bum into a wall (or tree) is actually self-treatment for an SI/pelvic injury - the horse's way of administering her own physio! A good physio would be able to tell you if there is a problem in this area.
 
Yep, you have just described my mare exactly! She used to suffer from extreme ovulation pain and this was exactly what she used to do. It has to be said though, that if she knew someone was watching she'd really ham it up!
 
I should have also mentioned, she is absolutely fine to ride. She is just starting out but has been fine in walk and sitting trot. Also seemed fine in rising trot but struggled a bit to sustain rising trot but i think this was mainly due to the deepness of our arena which is now out of service. If she had any of these problems, I'm guessing she would be lame or not able to be ridden easily? She doesn't move at all when mounting also and I'm guessing maybe would if she was in pain due to injury etc.
 
we have a jumping pony that does this, we tried her on regumate and she has completely stopped, her ridden work has also improved. I think these warm winters are playing having with their seasons
 
Thanks for all the replies. FAO: fatpiggy, when you say she used to suffer, does she not suffer anymore? what did you do to help her? I think I might try Regumate and see if this improves things then I'll know if its hormonal or not, do you all reckon this is the first thing to try? Thanks
 
At this time of year Iwould have her ovaries scanned first. If she's in anoestrus, which a goodly percentage of mares are now, Regumate will be a waste of time and money. It's expensive stuff too - will be a waste if you haven't checked that the problem IS associated with her cycle because ALL Regumate does is stop a mare coming into season!

My mare with SI injury stood perfectly at the mounting block, behaved beautifully for the first 4 months after we backed her. She just didn't MOVE the way I knew she should (her action had been wowing us since she was a foal.) She went slightly unlevel when we stepped up the work.
 
Hi Total, a bit of a drastic cure really! She was diagnosed with epilepsy and the drugs prescribed for that have the added bonus of supressing her seasons - good thing too really since it is her hormones that cause her seizures. I keep her on the lowest possible dose to keep the seizures at bay (they cost about £400 per month :( ) and occasionally she has a season, especially if a new horse arrives but luckily her advancing age (28) seems to have slowed her hormones down a bit - in the past a season meant I had about 10 days notice that her seizures were going to break through again. These days showing signs of being in season doesn't mean I have to panic unduly, thank goodness.
 
My friends mare is very strange when in season. She stands in her stable and the next thing she pin her ears back and kick the wall. She's just started regumate to see if it helps
 
My mare did exactly this last winter she cut all her hocks in the stable and also she kicked the Walls when tied up outside. We think it was set off by the gelding who was in the stable next to her who is now suspected to be a rig but even after we moved stables she would still do it so to break the cycle she went out 24/7 from the end of Feb (should have been end of March). I also put her onto Angus castus and this year she has been absolutely fine even at the moment when she is in for all but 3 hours :-)
 
Old thread but just wanted to say mine does exactly this too! We had her ovaries scanned last year, did a 2 week regumate trial to check if she had an issue… I think it’s just what she does when she has strong seasons..the vet said the pressing themselves on the wall thing can be a form of self pleasure 🤭

Ours only seems to do it in the winter months as she does tend to cycle all year round…doesn’t do it spring and summer! These mares!
 
There was a mare at my old yard that eventually kicked the breeze block walls out of the back of the stable. They ended up putting rubber mats over the front of the bricks to stop her doing it again. Mares can be very squealy
 
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