Strange Behaviour - Hormonal Mare

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I have a 17 year old mare on loan and she'd been turned out with my 2 geldings for 10 days and then on Monday she came into season and became obsessed with the MARE in the adjoining field, totally ignoring my two geldings and on Wednesday night she managed to climb through the fence into the field with the mare next door, ripping her rug and pulling a shoe in the process and got herself into a right state, I caught her and brought her home away from the field and she settled down once the mare was out of sight, she whinnied for a while and then settled down to eat grass.....then on Friday morning we tried her out in the field again but she galloped straight past my two geldings and went to this mare who was waiting for her by the fence and they both started spraying so we had no choice but to bring her in again for her own safety as we obviously don't want her to injure herself. Once back home in our own field out of sight she settled down again.....although she is still in season.

I'm finding this very hard to understand as this has happend with another mare we had, she was totally obessed with the same mare in the next field and was constantly in season whenever she see saw her, so she too had to be separated...it just seems a shame that our mare now has to be confined to a small paddock on her own instead of being in a nice big 10 acre with my two geldings and its upsetting the balance, my two geldings come in off the big field at night but during the day she has to stay on her own, it dosent seem to bother her but I cant risk turning her out in there again.

Has anybody out there experienced this sort of behaviour ??? I dont know much about this other mare, my mare's owners say she's never behaved like this before, she's been mareish and flirty with geldings when she's in season but nothing out of the ordinary...
 
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My mare also doesvthis, usually in spring though but she has been known to stop at mare's field whilst out hacking and then spray and wee everywhere all over the road, refusing to move at all much to the amusement of drivers!!! She got really bad this year so I tried her on naf oestress and now she is MUCH better! This all got worse when we got her a new boyfriend after we lost our old mare. The transformation was so good that I am keeping her on a low dose over winter to see if come spring she is any better!! I know how you feel!!!
 
I honestly wouldn't be too worried about it! A lot of our brood mares behave like that when in season - and ignore geldings (they KNOW geldings are useless!) They very quickly lose interest in each other if one of the stallions hacks up the drive past their field! I often suspect they're just showing off: i.e. "I'm randier than you!" "The stallion will fancy me more!" etc.
 
My shetland is an absolute nightmare in a very similar sense. I give her Gold label Oestraban - a Monkspepper based/totally natural supplement and she's never been quieter. It doesn't stop her coming into season, it just stops her from acting like a psycho. It's also turned my late-cut stud-brained gelding into a gentle giant.
 
I think it takes a week or so to kick in so I feed my shetland a pinch twice a day all year round and she's stopped behaving like a thug ever since. I hear its helps with laminitics too, and she had lammy the first year we had her so I don't stop over winter even though she generally doesn't come into season. I think it's basically a natural hormone balancer so stops her from overproducing, but you're probably right to see how it works in contrast to other herbs. If I were you, I'd call the global herbs vetline and ask them if their own monkspepper products (I think its called friskymare) would work with the supplements you're using. Helpline: 01243 773363 or 0800 1694709. They're brilliant help and might even send you a sample. The only reason I stopped using the friskymare is because she wouldn't eat it (GH products stink and the few I've tried are unpalatable at least for my pair).

The rig I feed one level scoop of oestraban daily split between two feeds and it really does take the pig out of him. He still mounts mares when they're in season (or he did before I separated them) but I think that's more of a learned instinct because he doesnt pay them the blindest bit of attention unless they're literally begging for it. Before I used it he'd scream the place down and raise merry hell if you took his mares out of his line of sight. I think the gold label is about £18 a tub which lasts my two about 8 weeks between them. No huge loss if you find it doesnt work but definitely worth a word with the Global Herbs guys.

Let us know how you get on?

Kelly
 
My mare was like this in her last season. I'd not long moved yards and she fixated on the mare next door who was also in season. Her behaviour was so bad I couldn't ride her or anything, she was too dangerous. They've settled down a bit now but dreading the next season :(
 
My mare was like this in her last season. I'd not long moved yards and she fixated on the mare next door who was also in season. Her behaviour was so bad I couldn't ride her or anything, she was too dangerous. They've settled down a bit now but dreading the next season :(

Thank goodness things are not this bad....things have settled here now, my mare is in my small paddock at home 2 fields away from the mare, who is still shouting her, although my mare is now ignoring her and not in season anymore although I'm not going to risk turning her out into the adjoining field again !!
 
I think it takes a week or so to kick in so I feed my shetland a pinch twice a day all year round and she's stopped behaving like a thug ever since. I hear its helps with laminitics too, and she had lammy the first year we had her so I don't stop over winter even though she generally doesn't come into season. I think it's basically a natural hormone balancer so stops her from overproducing, but you're probably right to see how it works in contrast to other herbs. If I were you, I'd call the global herbs vetline and ask them if their own monkspepper products (I think its called friskymare) would work with the supplements you're using. Helpline: 01243 773363 or 0800 1694709. They're brilliant help and might even send you a sample. The only reason I stopped using the friskymare is because she wouldn't eat it (GH products stink and the few I've tried are unpalatable at least for my pair).

The rig I feed one level scoop of oestraban daily split between two feeds and it really does take the pig out of him. He still mounts mares when they're in season (or he did before I separated them) but I think that's more of a learned instinct because he doesnt pay them the blindest bit of attention unless they're literally begging for it. Before I used it he'd scream the place down and raise merry hell if you took his mares out of his line of sight. I think the gold label is about £18 a tub which lasts my two about 8 weeks between them. No huge loss if you find it doesnt work but definitely worth a word with the Global Herbs guys.

Let us know how you get on?

Kelly

Thank you, yes I will speak to Global Herbs, their products are really good. Thanks for taking time to reply..x
 
Was just about to ask the sane question... My mare is back in season and being dreadful with the two elderly geldings...my old boy thinks he is in heaven! She turns into a jittery wreck in season... I do zoopharmacognosy with her and she is desperate for jasmine which is a good hormone balancer...she will actually lick it off my hands. Has anyone used the Global Herbs stuff with success?
 
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