VERY, very strange behaviour!

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Over the last few weeks, Dolly's behaviour has become very odd.. We thought that due to a young gelding being put out in a neighbouring field,she was just a bit excited..but.. after days of charging round the field, she came up with a splint!.. so we had to put her on box rest. This didnt help at all and she spend all day sweaty and unsettled, calling non stop. We called in the vet, who on examination, said she had a huge folicle which was causing excess amounts of hormones and thus the behaviour.
For the last few days, we have been doping her and for a while she is quiet in the field. Tonight, however, we had a call to go down to the yard as she was going barmy!!
The gelding, that we thought was her isssue, is no longer at the yard, but is turned out a field away behind a very large hedge....but maybe they can still hear each other.
Now, bear in mind, that this mare has NEVER been mareish ro behaving like this.. She has lived in allsorts of place and travelled extensively without an issue..
She has become bargy and even with a stallion chain tonight, kt found it hard to make her concentrate. Her whinney has deepened also..
Odd isnt it!!
Any suggestions?


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shes found herself a boyfriend?!?
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Not really overly helpful, lol, grr she needs to come back into work. SOON!!

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typical women though really falls head over heels for a guy
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Must be the name 'Dolly'! My Dolly went through exactly the same phase! Our vet couldnt find anything pysically wrong, so prescribed a 3-week course of Regumate. Worked wonders! Worth asking your vet about it. It's a miracle drug!!
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Not really overly helpful, lol, grr she needs to come back into work. SOON!!

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typical women though really falls head over heels for a guy
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Bloody typical, shes surrounded by GP stallions for years and she falls for a bloody hunter!
She's obviously fed up with the ponce and wants a bit of rough. lol
 
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I thought Dolly was retired? Must have missed some posts.

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Semi- retired but lame at the moment!!

Dappy Mare..Do horses have a mid-life crisis???


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sorry have no other suggestion

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Not really overly helpful, lol, grr she needs to come back into work. SOON!!

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typical women though really falls head over heels for a guy
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Bloody typical, shes surrounded by GP stallions for years and she falls for a bloody hunter!
She's obviously fed up with the ponce and wants a bit of rough. lol

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good choice if you ask me
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Just wondering whether this may have something to do with it? Going from being a competition horse to retired and then brought back into work?
 
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Just wondering whether this may have something to do with it? Going from being a competition horse to retired and then brought back into work?

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Never entirely stopped working..that would be too hard on her..has continued to work 3 or 4 times a week, just not out in competition...


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I'd have a blood test and perhaps see if regumate is required, or it could be a something like a tumour on her ovaries? I think from recall that can cause more testosterone to be produced than normal, but don't quote me, it's only a memory dredged up from somewhere deep in my brain!
 
Before you spend out on Regumate, try to get hold of some Agnus Castus, it's the active ingredient in all the mare supplements and can work wonders for hormonal issues, it's also used to great success on riggy geldings and stallion behavioural problems.

Equus Health do straight Agnus Castus, Hyperdrug sell Oestrafree which is based on AC and Holland & Barrett have a mahoosive 1/2 price sale on it at the moment.
 
Sometimes they don't go through the autumn transition properly and some can get several folicles built up which can make them almost stalliony in their behaviour. As HH said a tumour on the ovaries can also affect them.

Well worth getting bloods done if she stays like it, as regumate works really well (and quickly). There are also the other things like Stroppy Mare, Oestress etc that can be used during the autumn and winter if they do start having transitional problems.
 
I would go with the hormone theory I think.

I know she isn't in foal but her changes sound remarkably similar to the ones I have noticed in one of my (confirmed) in foal mares, which,presumably are hormone related. Bossier behaviour, deeper voice,lots of snorting and squealing, overall a more masculine appearance and behaviour. If you looked over the gate at her, not knowing she was a mare you would think she was a stallion or at the least, a riggy gelding. She makes my colt look like a low ranking mare and herds the other mare and foal away from him all the time!
 
Silly question, but could it be possible she knows the gelding already from the past? Just seems odd that she's never ever been like this before. I'd turn them out together seeing as she's semi-retired and let the love blossom
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