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The past fwe days iv been hacking my mare she has become a little tense while iv been riding her she dosent do anything just gets a bit uptight/tense.She has only started doing this the past few days we have been hacking.Last week we met a tractor on a hack with a scary trailer and she tried to fly forewards with fright but i managed to stop her and we met him the second time and she was a bit better.Diet wise she is having a handfull of horse&pony mix and hand full of chaff,She is still gettin ad-lib haylage as there is no grass and is only hacking and having a lesson once a week. I did think she may be in season but i dont want to buy supplements if im not sure if this is the case?
 
My mare has gone exactly the same way in the last few days. She wouldn't hack sensibly last night and we fell out big time in the school. It wasn't until I brought her in tonight when she squeeled and lifted her tail at all the geldings that I knew for sure, yes she is in season. I'm afaid that all of us mare owners have to deal with them in one way or another. The first season of the spring is nearly always the worst though, if that's any help:confused:
 
It would. I give my girl a simple systems suppliment from spring to winter. It's called lunar eclipse which is made up of linseed n stuff and helps her loads.

This year she has not been half as bad as she was last year and I can only think that, that is the reason why. Last year she was sooooooooo difficult to lead, let alone ride!!

Owning a mare is like owning a stallion, they have not been de-sexed and therefore can be a little ummmm, shall we say fiesty at times.:cool:
 
I would think it is being a mare and spring. Everyone I know which a mare is saying that there are very lively at the moment. Even our Farra Clydesdale who is normally the most placid and calm mare, is for her, lively. Luckily her lively is a bit of jogging and trying to go into a steady canter when trotting and swing her bum to the side in the school not wanting to school.

Good gallop down the bridleway sorted her out, well for that day.

She does not show seasons, but grass is coming through and she does have seasons, but never tarty and we have a lot of stallions next door to our yard which are all being very vocal at the moment.
 
we passed a stallion yesterday on our way to the menage and she was fine,today on a hack she was really foreward going and she is usually a kick along type, We passed a horse and it called out and she was all shook up,She is 100% to handle etc its just out hacking she gets a bit tense.I will try the magic and see how we get on. I have always had geldings in the past this is my first mare so its all new to me.
 
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