bellaboo
Well-Known Member
My usually very dependable mare has totally changed since losing her pair bond in April last year. I didn't think it had affected her too bad untill she became quite depressed. I had a 'horse whisperer' to her and she seemed to settle for abit, but not to long after she got kicked in the field and suffered a fracture just below her stifle.
She really wasn't coping at home as horses and people were coming in the barn all the time, so she was sent away to horsey hospital/rehab yard to have 24hr company. Before last April you could leave her in the stable and field on her own and she would have been fine.
When she came back home she seemed ok, although was very loose, just put that down to being turned out again and re adjusting, a course of probiotics sorted her out!
Now she is getting worse than ever, it's not helping that the weather has been so bad so some days she's had to stay in all day as the field are more like lakes and has become more and more attached to my filly.
They were moving a carriage around in the barn the other day and she was stood in the corner of the stable shaking, this is not like her at all, normally she's in the way being far to nosey and trying to help! She now has become really loose again, gets very upset when people are in the barn or my filly goes somewhere, can't leave her anywhere on her own and it's getting worse,
What can i do for her? Do you think she is still missing her pair bond? I hate seeing her like this
She really wasn't coping at home as horses and people were coming in the barn all the time, so she was sent away to horsey hospital/rehab yard to have 24hr company. Before last April you could leave her in the stable and field on her own and she would have been fine.
When she came back home she seemed ok, although was very loose, just put that down to being turned out again and re adjusting, a course of probiotics sorted her out!
Now she is getting worse than ever, it's not helping that the weather has been so bad so some days she's had to stay in all day as the field are more like lakes and has become more and more attached to my filly.
They were moving a carriage around in the barn the other day and she was stood in the corner of the stable shaking, this is not like her at all, normally she's in the way being far to nosey and trying to help! She now has become really loose again, gets very upset when people are in the barn or my filly goes somewhere, can't leave her anywhere on her own and it's getting worse,
What can i do for her? Do you think she is still missing her pair bond? I hate seeing her like this