Weaving while travelling , help!

[carthorse]

Just picked up Penfold from PC camp at Offchurch, this morning they did hound exercise at 7 am and he has such an exciting week he looks like a hat rack, he just worries the weight off. We took Rafi for her to teach from for the rest of the day and tomorrow,.So Penfold can relax for a couple of days before Draycott. They saw each other which meant get very excited, Penfold was still shaking from the hunt anyway, so got himself into a lather.
On the way home he has weaved more than usual , he never does it in a stable but in the horsebox he will do it when stressed and boy was he stressed. I closed the partition a bit but then he just did it fast and went into a sort of piaffe, stupid chap .
Anyone any ideas. I have put a mirror into the front of the partition but that has not helped. I feel so sorry for him he is fine when they tyravel together, which is not often as they become inseperable at shows.

 

[Maisy]

have you tried rescue remedy or something? Perhaps acp?? (I dont know if that would help travelling?) Maybe if you could take him out for lots of short rides in the trailer/lorry to go out hacking so he wouldnt get so over excited thinking he is going hunting or to a show?? (I have to take my dogs out in the car a lot so they dont think we are going somewhere exciting every time!!)

 

[Mrs_Wishkabibble]

My mare can be stressy when she travels. We have an Equitrek and if she sees something like cyclists in bright jerseys out of the back window she starts weaving. I hang a fairly large haynet in front of her so she cannot actually weave and seems to calm down now. She can still see out but it stops her doing the actually weaving if this makes sense.

 

[wonkey_donkey]

Our horse has weaved on the lorry all his life. We found that the more we tried to stop it or made a fuss about it the worse his weaving got. So we just let him get on with it and made sure he had enough leg room so his knee wouldn't knock together !!

 

[MillionDollar]

My friend's dressage horse does this, well piaffes, while travelling. He is 110% everyway except travelling. He loads perfectly and stands, but then as soon as you move he piaffes. Friend hasn't solved it yet, she's been trying for 2 years

If friends horse was mine though I'd try a few 'drastic' things

 

[ddd]

Mine did this for 12 years, I just ignored it. Tried sorting it but he got more stressed. Weaving allowed him to let stress out. I padded the partitions at ground level as he was breaking his feet up with keep hitting them but that was all.

I found it made more noise than anything and he could rock the lorry around abit but that was all. Competed him for 12 years and he weaved continuously as soon as the lorry dropped below 30 miles per hour or as we pulled into the showground and as soon as we came off the motorway coming home, he stopped when the engine was turned off, the less I worried about it the easy it was to cope with.

 

[Peanot]

My horse used to pick up one front foot then the other, very similar to weaving when travelling in my lorry. Not at all any time else. But after buying a trailer, she just chilled, you wouldn`t believe it is the same horse. The only time she was OK in a lorry was when she was with another horse. On the trailer, she will stand all day on her own and travel like a dream. Found out she is claustrophobic! and she loves the open back top doors. Close them and she panics.