Rescue Remedy for Horses

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Has anyone successfully used Rescue Remedy on Horses.
My cob gets very tense hacking out if anything is different.

By different I mean cows at wrong end of field, a car parked where there wasn't one last time or even a car not parked where there was one before. And today we met the bin lorry, he is fine in heavy traffic but knew about the bin lorry ages before I saw it.

His reaction is extreme 180 degree spin and then goes vertical if I try and turn him back.

It doesn't make any difference if he is in company or alone. Once he has all four feet on the ground I hop off lead him past the dragon and then hunt for a suitable getting back on place..

It is definitely a confidence thing he is a really nice horse with a kind nature but a combination of problems has destroyed his confidence ( and mine ).
 
I recently moved my horse to a new yard and I knew that he would be a total stress head so I asked the vet what I could do to relax him and he suggested a magnesium based calmer - Equimins - it really calmed him down generally (hot head arab). Just before I led him in hand to his new yard (about 3 miles away) I gave him some rescue remedy and he was soooo good - we saw buses, lorries, mopeds, bins, bin lorries and he was great - didn't even raise an eyebrow. I cant say for sure it was the rescue remedy because it could have been the magnesium but I think its worth a try.
 
If a magnesium based calmer works its because the horse is deficient in magnesium 0 which unless ur on balanced minerals he probably is! Better way is just to feed a good supp such as pro hoof or forage plus.

Rescue Remedy does work id give him 5-6 drops as ur tacking up. Id also keep going with your getting off and leading past - this has got my scatty mare hacking quite steadily - also little and often, the more I do the better she is. Singing is also great and confidence giving voice not timid and nervy :)
 
Thank you he is on Forageplus Summer Balancer.
5 or 6 drops will try this.
Singing you haven't heard me sing - he has.

It's a tricky old thing he used to be so confident and now it's all gone which leaves me anxious but I am determined to get him back to where he was if nothing else I will be very fit.
 
I can personally recommend the RR - you should take it too! Also the singing as it keeps your breathing regular and above all, remember to never look at what your horse has spooked at. It makes things infinitely worse. Look in a different direction immediately however tempting it is.
 
Single Malt Whisky I hope.

This morning I was struggling to see what had frightened him the first time but I think maybe he could see or hear the lorry miles before me.

I have rescue remedy chewing gum but will get him some drops.
 
Apparentlly spooky horses quite often have pain related issues that are unresolved and this is why they are so spooky - this is according to my physio.
 
applecart14 said:
Apparentlly spooky horses quite often have pain related issues that are unresolved and this is why they are so spooky - this is according to my physio.
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Absolutely applecart14 he had minor KS surgery last year and gets regular physio. I have been back to vets and had him re xrayed neck back hocks and have just written my vet a really long message I am hoping to have the world record for areas of a horse scanned and xrayed.
In the meantime it maybe pain memory so we are plugging away and rebuilding his handsome confidence.
 
Hello, I use RR on my horse for competitions. I've tried every calmer thing going and I think it's as good as anything. You can get it with a spray applicator and use 2 or 3 sprays. Good luck hope it helps. xxx
 
Well believe it or not I have had a Bach Flower Remedy therapist out. She has dowsed Charlie and we have a little bottle of magic to help him.

"It is important to be clear at this stage Bach flower remedies do not profess to be always a cure all. In some cases, for the horse it really will cure the problem, others will benefit from the Bach flowers whilst in a remedial / retraining program, they become a valuable part of making the horse more receptive, trusting, confident etc. But they cannot make a saddle fit properly, negate the need for the chiropractor or cure unbalanced feet. They will however, help with a fear of being ridden due to a past problem with the saddle or give confidence to a horse that his back will not hurt anymore once he has had the physical problem resolved!"

So here's hoping.
 
I use flower remedies on both my horses. I believe they work very well.

They are not a magical cure all, but they have helped with behavioral issues that my two have (they are ridiculously co-dependent and both are prone to be stress heads)

At shows, both me and which ever one I am riding get a few drops of Rescue Remedy which while it doesn't "cure" stress, it helps tone it down to a more manageable level for the pair of us. Instead of us being at a 9 on a scale of 1-10, stress levels come down to a 4-5.

They also get a flower remedy made up of Centaury, Red Chestnut, Heather and Monga Warratah which helps with the co-dependancy. So far so good. They have only been on it for a week or so, but all signs are positive.
 
Bach Flower Rescue Remedy is sensational!

I'd never heard of it, till one summer evening a 16.3hh stallion appeared, tackles, outside our house. Trying to keep a long story short I managed to get a head collar on him, and a neighbour helped me get him into a disused stable (we didn't have any then) but he was really wound-up, really stroppy because he was wound up, and I was the only person prepared to handle him. We'd done some ringing around, and the local horse-dealer came up to help, bringing with her the Bach FRR.

She cut an apple in half, gouged out a little saucer where the core was, dropped some BFRR in, and gave it to him. Within 10 minutes he was a quiet, sane, friendly fellow and I was able to bed him down, wash the sweat off etc. etc. with never a murmur.

I remembered this when I bought my next mare, a TB who was terrified of farriers. After 10 minutes of Wild West stuff on her first shoeing I gave some BFRR and the farrier shod one of the other horses. He then came back to my girl, and she had quietened down so much - it was amazing. From then on she had a few drops about half an hour before the farrier came, and after 3-4 visits didn't need it any more anyway.

Finally, I used to know Long Distance riders who administered it to their horse AND themselves!!
 
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