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Nancy JSS

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I've just joined this forum today. I have just moved to a new yard and my mare is kicking the side wall of her new stable apparently all night long and keeping the land owners awake. I've tried various techniques of muffling the sound and padding the area but its such a loud thudding bang that its really getting on everyone's nerves and I don't want to be asked to leave!
The livery yard owner suggested I investigated the Quitkick system. Its very expensive! Around 300 for the one I need with side sensors. Has anyone used it and how has it worked for you? Does anyone have one for sale?
 
If you were to compare where you were and her routine to where you are now and her routine. What's changed?

Turnout? Size of stable? Entertainment in the stable?

I know you probably need a quick fix so I'm not trying to rule that out. But if she didn't do it before and does do it now then doing a comparison on what specifically has changed might enable you to fix the root cause?
 
I've had another thought too. Is there any chance you have access go a good horse trainer that can come out to you and perhaps train the behaviour out of her. Hopefully wouldn't cost as much as £300 but again... could take longer than QuitKick.

If you're Nottinghamshire / South Yorkshire / Derbyshire / Lincolnshire way I can definitely recommend a guy who might be able to help.
 
I've moved to different yards over the years and most of them haven't had someone's bedroom so close by. I'm pretty sure she didn't do it ten years ago, well I didn't see any signs of it anyway. We then spent some time in 24/7 turnout with field shelter but as she has got older she needs to have the option of a stable. She has kicked the wall before in the last yard I was in as it was brick and I noticed the damage but it something I only noticed a couple of months before we left there due to the land owner selling her farm. This time it has been brought to my attention as there are a few residents on site near her stable.
I'm on a livery yard so don't have the choice of stables and if I don't get it sorted out then they will probably ask me to leave. I have 2 others there too so it would be big upheaval and not something I would want to do as its near me for work/ childcare etc.
They only come in when its bad weather. She has loads of entertainment in her stable and the stable is massive.
Basically I need to know if anyone recommends the Quitkick?
 
If you know someone techy and handy with electronics they can probably make you one for under £50. The squirter on the QuitKick looks like just a windscreen washer bottle and nozzle assembly off a car and you can get vibration sensors from China quite cheaply. You'll also need a power source.
 
The one I would need has two sensors that go on the side wall she kicks. The squirter assembly attaches to the door and there is a wireless signal between them...as she kicks the wall the squirter goes off at the front -not sure I could do that bit with self sourced bits? Obviously I'm hesitant in shelling out that sort of money without recommendations taken not just from the products own website!
 
Kicking the side wall is not the same as kicking a door so I would want to know why she is doing it and try and solve that rather than using something to stop her which is likely to make her show her displeasure in another way, the few that I have known to kick in this way were unhappy with their neighbours for some reason, mares are very sensitive to feeling trapped, intimidated or threatened and this may be her way of telling you, you have 2 others so why not try moving them around to see if that helps, if she can see her neighbour try putting something to prevent that or even just moving her hay to a different place may help.
She may be the opposite and need to see another horse, you don't give details of the set up, so a mirror may help although it sounds more likely she is feeling uncomfortable with her neighbour than missing a friend.
 
cant help with to why your mare is doing this behavouir


but the yard owner of where ikeep my gelding has a quitkick box that goes on if we get door kickers (its agreed in our livery contacts that if the horse is continuously kicking she can put it on)

i am very lucky in that my gelding one shouts at feed times and isn't a door kicker, however the mare next door is and she has had the box put on, but its frightened my gelding to the point where he will not eat his hay net if it is hung in the corner with the mares door next to it

i mean the mare doesn't kick the door any more, if any thing shes a bit scared of the door now, her owner says she normally falls back in to old habbits and end up with it on once a year for a week to remind her
 
I spent a day sat outside his stable with a water pistol. He figured it out.

He still kicks the door but its to demand food so I do the trick that was recommended on here; I walk towards him with his food, every time he kicks I take a step back and wait 5 seconds before moving forward again. The difficulty I have is that he's on full livery surrounded by horses who all bang for their food and the staff don't have time to do this every time. He's learnt not to bang his door when I'm carrying his dinner. (*sigh*)

He has recently started banging for attention again so I'll be off to the toy shop for a new water pistol (you can use indoor house plant spray bottles but the water doesn't travel far so you have to stay relatively close, water pistol is more expensive but you can deliver the message from a greater distance)
 
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Believe me I have tried everything. Blocking her view, changing her around, swapping my horses around...I have moved her around and it doesn't make a difference. I think she does have a problem with her neighbour but she has a problem with every neighbour. Both would be mares one side. Nobody else wants to move from their stable. I've changed the stable layout, changed the food layout....thanks for all your advice but I really just want to know if anyone has tried the Quitkick.
 
I don't want it to affect the neighbours. They are small little ponies that don't make a sound and she's a great big 16.2 sports horse. It is also happening overnight when everyone is asleep. The yard locks up at 9pm so cant really sit there with a pistol all night although that sounds like a good idea its just not practically viable.
 
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We have one at the yard and it’s been used on several of the horses doors and been very successful.
 
Thank you! Do you know if they have been front door kickers or side wall kickers or both? I don't mind a bit of door pummelling as soon as I arrive in the morning but the side wall booting is causing me a lot of headaches (and everyone else it would seem!)
 
Nancy JSS said:
Hi
I've just joined this forum today. I have just moved to a new yard and my mare is kicking the side wall of her new stable apparently all night long and keeping the land owners awake. I've tried various techniques of muffling the sound and padding the area but its such a loud thudding bang that its really getting on everyone's nerves and I don't want to be asked to leave!
The livery yard owner suggested I investigated the Quitkick system. Its very expensive! Around 300 for the one I need with side sensors. Has anyone used it and how has it worked for you? Does anyone have one for sale?
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I have two - one on each door and both my horses don't kick the door anymore unless the gelding decides to test if it is on, kicking has reduced by 95% and my mare was prolific door kicker when I got her

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