What would you do?

Ok I have turned into an insomniac(sp?) so you are now going to have to suffer all my questions, sorry!

Monty is basically UNSOCIABLE
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He cannot live next to other horses in his stable as he tries to kill them so he now lives next to tack room.
He is very protective over mares so cannot live near them
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D and Monty hate each other so they can't live together
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He beat YO horses up and recently the only horse he can live with is my friends shettie. But this is starting to concern me as he has been picking Ted up by the back of his rug giving the poor boy a wedgie (he has leg straps) If we leave the rug off he bruises his bum
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We fence them off and you finding him in with Ted
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You leave Monty on his own and he goes nuts
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What would you do with it?
 
Could you not find some sort of grazing muzzle? Like the ones for laminetics? Or have you a shortage of grass?
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try him on some magnesium, see if it chills him down, you'll want to feed it for a few weeks before you can see any change. I'd put up a whacking strong electric fencing tape betweeen him and the others and teach him some personal space stuff until he comes down. I'd get his hormone levels checked, plenty of people do it for mares but not many for geldings, he might be on testosterone high! ....Is he fully mature? if so he's only doing what all horses do, being the herd dominant leader. he needs a nice strong alpha mare to put him right and give him something to think about!
good luck, ours at EMW herefordshire is only 12hh thank G*D!
 
Monty being a brute I see!

Try coating the Shetland's rug in anticrib biting cream. Could you put Monty out in a muzzle so he can't bite?

I would volunteer Bane's services as he would soon sort him out but Dorset is a long way to travel for a horse fight!
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That's what I was going to say! Either that or the grazing muzzle idea could be interesting! Sounds like a nightmare....

ETS: How about smothering shetties rug in cribbox? That might put him off....
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Monty being a brute I see!

Try coating the Shetland's rug in anticrib biting cream. Could you put Monty out in a muzzle so he can't bite?

I would volunteer Bane's services as he would soon sort him out but Dorset is a long way to travel for a horse fight!
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Nooooo! It's not too far for the yummy chestnut one to come
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I know, you bring Bane here and you can take Monty home, problem solved
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Call me daft but I'm kind of fond of him although the thought has crossed my mind
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Ok then - fair enough.
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Amy was very, very difficult to manage in the field. And as she got older she got continually worse.

The only two horses she ever really respected were two mares that were much bigger than her and absolutely took no nonsense from her.

Other than that I had to keep her in her latter year on her own more or less, which she hated.
 
I need a feisty shire or something
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I would put my other horse in with him but I think he'd beat him up
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The last time he was left in the field on his own he took the electric fence down separating the fields and YO husband had left the other gate open so he managed to get onto the road
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Luckily enough he came straight back into the barn for his tea
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My mare can't go out with others either. She used to have a shettie as a field mate as he used to bounce well
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Have u tried putting him out with something old that ignores him? Apart from the shettie the only other horse my mare can go out with is an old mare that ignores her and wanders away when B tries to pick an arguement.
 
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He wasn't gelded until he was 2 and a half so could that have something to do with it?


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That's your problem, IMO.
He sees himself as a stallion, behaviourally, and even though the testosterone has gone, the behaviour remains.
Where did you get him from - why was he cut so late?
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He wasn't gelded until he was 2 and a half so could that have something to do with it?


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That's your problem, IMO.
He sees himself as a stallion, behaviourally, and even though the testosterone has gone, the behaviour remains.
Where did you get him from - why was he cut so late?
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Originally he came from Roundhills Stud and was sold as a 2 year old uncut
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His previous owner bought him at 2 1/2 as a gelding
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He was kept with a elderly mare for a good year and when she died he flipped and has quite a few scars to prove it. He then went on loan to a yard so was surrounded by horses for a year. Then he was moved back to a field by himself for 3 months before I bought him.
So lots of moving about hasn't done him any favours but I think having him cut late hasn't helped
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What can I do, any suggestions?
 
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