she scared me yesterday :-/

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Had abit of a situation yesterday that shook me up abit afterward..
My mare was turned out, threw her nets over the fence into her paddock, climbed through to put them in her hay box when she reared up at me. I growled at her and tryed to stand my ground. She then proceeded to turn on me and double barral me, missing me by inches. I tried to make myself big and get her out of my space and then ended up in a corner. so i climbed out of the paddock and got the lunge whip out and made her go to the back of the paddock, she came over to the haylage and she backed off abit when she saw i had the lunge whip. I didnt actually hit her with it but waved it and hit the floor to get her away. It has actually shaken me up abit. I could well have ended up in A&E yesterday after being kicked in the gut! I think sometimes our relationship is growing them things like this happen. :-/ Getting really annoyed with all this horsey lark now, and its putting me off getting back on her.
 
blimey!! not sure what to say about that , is she very hungry and sees you as a threat to her food? Whichever way you proceed with this , I would definitely wear a hat - just in case...good luck
 
Completely unacceptable! Naughty girl! But have you considered just giving her a handfull to occupy her while you get through the fence and across the field? she may just be REALLY hungry... and or leading her and carrying it across the field at the same time?

Hope you're not too shaken by it.
 
i left the haynets with her while i went over to get her box to bring over (she likes spreading it around the field), i was about to pick her nets up when she did it, she does it on the lunge when she is excitable and i chase her away, she really invades my space. she is eager to get on out in the fields now spring has sprung but her behaviour is unaceptable. This is a mare that is supposed to be for sale! i cant sell her with this behaviour! Im going down to lunge her now, hopefully she will be groveling for fogiveness!
 
I agree that this behaviour is unacceptable but I do think that you have to take equine behaviour into account when dealing with horses.
I would never try to remove hay from a horse in the field. If you watch them in a herd with hay in several piles, they WILL move each other on, or defend their own pile. I put haylage out every morning in 10 piles for 5 horses, before the horses are turned out. This keeps every-one safe.
IMO behaviour on the lunge is in a completely different context.
 
I don't think horses miss us by inches when they kick out. If she'd meant to get you she would have. The problem here, I think, is that you dropped the hay in the field and then appeared, in her eyes, to remove it. You know you were only transferring it to a feeder but she didn't and was just trying to get it back.
I remember making the same mistake feeding a couple of mares once. I dropped all the hay near the first mare, then picked up a couple of sections to take to the second mare. The first mare decided it was all hers and left what she already had to block my path to the second mare and she was a very quiet, gentle, well mannered soul. I got annoyed with her but really it was my fault. Maybe it's a mare thing:)
 
china said:
Had abit of a situation yesterday that shook me up abit afterward..
My mare was turned out, threw her nets over the fence into her paddock, climbed through to put them in her hay box when she reared up at me. I growled at her and tryed to stand my ground. She then proceeded to turn on me and double barral me, missing me by inches. I tried to make myself big and get her out of my space and then ended up in a corner. so i climbed out of the paddock and got the lunge whip out and made her go to the back of the paddock, she came over to the haylage and she backed off abit when she saw i had the lunge whip. I didnt actually hit her with it but waved it and hit the floor to get her away. It has actually shaken me up abit. I could well have ended up in A&E yesterday after being kicked in the gut! I think sometimes our relationship is growing them things like this happen. :-/ Getting really annoyed with all this horsey lark now, and its putting me off getting back on her.
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Is she on her own? If so, she is obviously playing and needs a horsey companion. If she has company then I expect it is a more serious issue.
 
Fellewell said:
I don't think horses miss us by inches when they kick out. If she'd meant to get you she would have. The problem here, I think, is that you dropped the hay in the field and then appeared, in her eyes, to remove it. You know you were only transferring it to a feeder but she didn't and was just trying to get it back.
I remember making the same mistake feeding a couple of mares once. I dropped all the hay near the first mare, then picked up a couple of sections to take to the second mare. The first mare decided it was all hers and left what she already had to block my path to the second mare and she was a very quiet, gentle, well mannered soul. I got annoyed with her but really it was my fault. Maybe it's a mare thing:)
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She would have got me had i not have stepped back, she meant it allright! She has had this same routine all winter so knows exactly how it works.

Pearlsasinger said:
I agree that this behaviour is unacceptable but I do think that you have to take equine behaviour into account when dealing with horses.
I would never try to remove hay from a horse in the field. If you watch them in a herd with hay in several piles, they WILL move each other on, or defend their own pile. I put haylage out every morning in 10 piles for 5 horses, before the horses are turned out. This keeps every-one safe.
IMO behaviour on the lunge is in a completely different context.
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i appreciate equine behaviour, but i should be top of the pack, and doing something like that shouldn't even cross her mind.

Wagtail said:
Is she on her own? If so, she is obviously playing and needs a horsey companion. If she has company then I expect it is a more serious issue.
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Yes she is on her own, and has been since august. we are not aloud to turn horses out together because of injury, I can turn my two out together if i want but she kicked my other one last summer and gave him a hairline fracture. She is raging in season and just kicks and squeals at whatever looks at her.
she would sometimes have a funny five minutes while i was in the paddock pooh picking ect but she hasnt been this bad before, i guess it was coming. We have some very excitable horses on our yard, but never have i experienced something like this.
 
I dont have the room for anymore, she cant really go out with anything else other wise she is in season 24/7. If she is on her own her seasons are abit more regular. I dont really fancy anymore vets bills after shes booted something either. Cost enough after she booted my other one, (who is 15.3, bigger than her!) and she fractured his leg.

she was good as gold tonight, quite as a lamb and just stood in the sun.
 
I had a mare exactly like this. She was the best horse I have ever owned to ride but she was frankly horrid to look after.

She resented me in her stable (had to do pretty much everything outside her box), she wouldn't be caught on a regular basis and used to kick out at me, she would come at you with her mouth open to bite you if you went near her food and you never walked behind her. She also used to come at me on the lunge. I didn't dare turn her out with anything, she kicked, squealed, bit, chased any other horse who came near her.

Once her tack was one she was the kindest mare I have ever ridden, honest as the day was long and as brave as a lion.

She sadly destroyed her DDFT in the field last spring and was pts but if she hadn't been I was going to ask the vets to have a serious look at her seasons and hormones because I am fairly sure that was some of the problem. Might be worth getting your vet to do some tests and try regumate.
 
funnil enough, I had the vet out to scan her as all winter she has had these odd cycles and looked in alot of discomfort, but when he came out she came into a full blown cycle, and that would be all we would see on the scan, that was the 1st feb, but she is still in season now. The vet is out next week to look at my other one so i will have a word with him.
 
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