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After my last post about Scoopy kicking the shite out the trailer .............

Now call me THICK but could it be the travel boots ?

I have been practicing loading and unloading at the yard with no worries, and i have just had brushing boots on !

Now when i go to put travel boots on he jumps all round the place kicking !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! then kicks the crap out the trailer !!!!!!!!!!!!

Please someone talk some sense into me ?
 
Its so stupid though !

As soon as i put the travel boots on, even when he is tied up he starts to buck !

Now just brushing boots he is quite ! it as if we dont do the winding up bit, is he see's travel boots he starts to go nuts !

But he was fine in a lorry ?

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Tell me about it !

I have this thought that he has gone off travel boots because he has to move his feet more in a trailer, before he was also travelling backwards now he is forwards !

No ?

Yes ?
 
I think you may have hit the nail on the head, Donkey used to go nuts with the back pair on - so took them off and bought good old fashioned hock boots off ebay!
 
Well the thing is as soon as i move and get on the road all is quite !

But this loading is doing my head in !

Its like Dukes of Hazard, we all jump in quick and leave !

I just dont want to stress him out !

Im going to try bandages and see what happens and actually go out !
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Corroy used to load fine, in fact by herself. The suddenly she decided 'NO' anyhow I can get her on with lunge lines, now believe me I know how stubborn she is and a rope up her botty woulkd not pursuade her, if she really didn't want to. I too have toyed with the idea of taking her travel boots off, so I will try that now you have mentioned it
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Front travel boots and on the back I just put the hock boots on - remember she is a true leg at each corner horse and braces herself in the trailer - she has always been like this.
 
If you watch Scoop but not too close, when he kicks out in the trailer, the top of the hock boot comes a little loose and starts flapping, that why i swapped to brushing boots ?

Just wondering if hock boot would do the same !

I dont know how brave i should be with just brushing boots on
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Hock boots, brushing boots/medicine boots and over reach boots!!

or... as I have done in the past

travelling gamgee and bandages, over reach boots and fetlock boots.... with a touch of duct tape!!.... don't ask!
 
I very rarely travel my horses, and only go very short distances, but I don't usually put boots on Tess because her reaction to them is so violent.

Last time i tried to put them on, it took about 15-20 mins to get them on as you have to be very quiet and gentle else she kicks out at them whilst your putting them on and then as soon as I asked her to move she bucked so violently that one of the fully fastened up boots was flung off- right over the top of the trailer that was next to where i had tied her up and the boot was found about 30ft away in my parents front garden!!

So now I travel her with either just front boots on or none at all, but she does have very heavy feather which protects her legs from minor scrapes and I do think if I was travelling any distance I would bandage her all round or use brushing boots/knee/hock & over reach boots.

My other mare is happy to wear boots all round but hers are completely trashed as they always slip and I think that then unbalances her in the trailer so I definitely think in future she will be travelling wearing her sports boots and knee/hock boots.

Btw I did read a few weeks ago a post about wearing or not wearing travel boots and peoples reasons, think it was posted in the stable yard, and lots of people had replied so don't know if anyone has the link??
 
I dont think that the big elephant travel boots are safe... I have known horses to stand on them, trip fall etc in a trailer. I travel my mare in neoprene wrap tyoe things (such as the premier equine ones) and over reach boots...
 
I packed in with mine travel boots as for the first ten minutes my horse just stood in the stable and wouldn't move. When he did it was hilarious looked like he was climbing Mount Everest. I just put on what I was going to ride in when I got there.
 
I often take a friends horse out with mine in the trailer and she always just used leg wraps ( as she had no travel boots) and the horse travelled fine never moved at all. As she realised we would be going out more she went out and bought some lovely travel boots the result was a horse that kicked and fidgeted all the time he was in the trailer took a few times to realise thats what it was, she now travels him in over reach boots behind and leg wraps and he is back to being a model traveller.
Would definately be worth trying a short trip out in just your brushing boots to see if that is what it is.
 
I find with my boy that he doesn't like the velco done up too tight at the top off his back boots. As long as I leave it just a bit loose he is fine. If too tight he bunny hops up the yard until he has loosened the vecro.

I would worry about leaving him without the boots on though as he has fallen off the ramp in the past and if he hadn't been wearing boots I think he would have been badly scraped up.
 
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