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YO having a firework display very close to the stables (hes no horsey)
And my mares incredibly jumpy at little things, cant turn her out as hes letting the fireworks off right next to her field (is only electric tape, she jumps it with ease when scared)
What can i do to help keep her calm?
A small feed while the fireworks go off?
Ahhh help
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Luckily mine are good with fireworks but maybe stuffing her ears may help a bit?

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Ive got a ear net? as in one to go under her bridle?
 
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We stuff our horses ears with a peice of cotten wool if theres lots of noise
Also maybe a one off calmer?

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All the tack shops around here are closed, i only just found out
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wasnt impressed!
 
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He's doing this without warning you?
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Arsehole
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He told people on the yard, hoping it'll go round i spose, still no excuse!
 
Battery portable radio? Cotton wool in ears and feed. If you can put her in a stable I that would be best even just for the hour or so? If not does she have company?
 
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Battery portable radio? Cotton wool in ears and feed. If you can put her in a stable I that would be best even just for the hour or so? If not does she have company?

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Looked around the house for one and couldnt find one, gonna put her earnet on and give her a sloppy feed so she cant bolt it down quickly, Shes got company but ive been told the horse next doors not much better
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Make sure that all the lights are on at the yard and the stables. And just hover around whils the display is going on.

Hopefully she won't have a huge issue over the noise and flashes - and I know where my horse was previously stabled, the horses didn't bat an eyelid when big displays were going on near by.

Absolutely agree that she should be in.
 
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Make sure that all the lights are on at the yard and the stables. And just hover around whils the display is going on.

Hopefully she won't have a huge issue over the noise and flashes - and I know where my horse was previously stabled, the horses didn't bat an eyelid when big displays were going on near by.

Absolutely agree that she should be in.

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Yeah ofc, shes in every night at the mo, and the fireworks are being let off at the end of her field so thats a big no-no!
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All you can do other than that is be there to reassure her...
If you know she is going too be bad enough that she might hurt herself, then you should def think about getting the vet out to sedate her.
 
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Bit early for a firework display isn't it? think he is being a bit out of order personally. He could go to a display.

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Hes harri crishna, its a celebration of some sort!
He has a temple on the land so people come to him for these type of things, he had a festival reacenly Honey just stood gawping like "If that comes near me .. im outta here!"
 
Get the vet to sedate the yard owner, bloody fireworks, if he's that desperate to see some he should go to a display, it's livery yard isn't it, not a Taliban rescue center
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He is definitely out of order. If she gets bad your going to have to get emergency vet out to sedate her. has no one on the yard got any acp that you could borrow until shops open again
 
merlin hated fireworks so I would often fret...so ended up sitting up there with him til the worst of it had been and gone, just talking to him grooming him if I could, just trying to keep him calm and reasure him, all i could do really....

I hope you manage to sort your mare out.
 
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If you think she'll react badly you could always put her in a trailer and have a little drive for 1/2 an hour.

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Brilliant idea, if i had a trailer/lorry car that pulls or any mates with a trailer/lorry
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He is definitely out of order. If she gets bad your going to have to get emergency vet out to sedate her. has no one on the yard got any acp that you could borrow until shops open again


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Last time we acp'd her she had 8 and was still kicking the farrier, with force
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QR I would agree with cotton wool in the ears, a calmer and hay and maybe stay with your horse to help keep calm, I think it's awful that your YO would do something like that!
 
Could you not move her just for the night to another yard or something, if you know your YO is doing it on a certain day?

Or possibly try a calmer of somesort that might take the edge off (i.e a syringe type)

I saw you said you didn't have a radio, do you have a laptop? If so charge it up and play some songs on there, would defo also stay with her and try cotton wool too in the ears to deaden the sound down a bit and along with that under bridle thing. And why not also offer something yummy she doesn't nomally get (like a horse lick !!)
Rescue remedy might also help along with some massage or stractches to relax her!!

Goodluck.xx
 
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