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This is really just a post about a loading issue
My mare, most stubborn mare in the world, has now decided for no apparent reason, not to load.
She's not stressed by the lorry, just stands there and says no, up yer bum!!
Tomorrow I am trying teasing with feed etc.
Any surefire tips, flowers, chocolates?
I will try anything
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
this sounds just like my mare, used to practically load herself now she too just stands there and says no thanks, other days shes fine!! havnt found a cure for mine yet.
 
No idea. But I'll have the chocolates if she doesn't want them
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Good luck!

Have a hot choccy to keep your strength up
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A lunge whip and a large broom?!!
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yes excatly... once she gets it in her head that when she doesnt want to go she doesnt have to she'll learn bad habits. next time she stops give her a good telling off and mean buisiness.
 
Mine did this he is such a pain if you try pulling him on or forcing him on he will not have it but will happy stand at the bottom of the ramp allllll day if you let him.
The way we get him to load which is the only way to have worked constantly is to have the trailer with the ramp down, room for the horse and then a gate we slowly shut the gate inwards so that he has nowhere at all to go but in the trailer, he is tempted with his tea and rewarded only when he is tied up - he is too clever and would come in half way take food and go back out again talk about greedy! We have done this every time we load him and now when we go to load him he walks straight on, it used to take a minimum of 3 hours to load him before.
Might not be ideal but works for him.
 
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A lunge whip and a large broom?!!
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yes excatly... once she gets it in her head that when she doesnt want to go she doesnt have to she'll learn bad habits. next time she stops give her a good telling off and mean buisiness.

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I agree. When they are stubbon like that the 'nicely nicely' approach doesn't work!
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You need brute force (including lots of whips, brooms and noise!)

She'll soon give up when when she realizes she is out numbered
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Ok tricks include but are not limited to...

Prickly brush up the rear end
Good smack on the rear end
Control halter/chiffney
All of the above and if all else fail
Long rope round belly between front legs and through halter, rope through a fixed point in the trailer and encourage the horse to move by applying gentle pressure, they will go forward slwoly and will only try to go backward once. My friend gelding started this crap at a show and she had to stable him over night then try again the next morning, 8 hour later she tried this rope trick, he was in the trailer 15 minutes later. Since then she just has to put a rope over his back and he gets the hint and goes in.
 
No never try to bully a mare they'll go the opposite way and you won't get them even near the ramp!! My mare changed almost overnight too.

I discovered she was very slightly aneamic and was tiring at shows and therefore associated the box with being very tired, I changed her feed and put her on red cell, then spent one morning with front and rear ramps down and partition out and let her eat on the box and walk in and out lots of times, the next time I got her in no problem and just drove around the block then straight home. After that never had a problem.
 
If she plants, we keep her moving side to side and she gets fed up an d goes in. Or OH ties ratchet strap to side of trailer and unwinds it = she walks in. Or I walk away and ignoer her (she looks to see where I've gone), meanwhile daughter walks her in. Nothing consistently works, but she usually loads inside of 5 minutes now.
 
Have a good long lead rein or lunge rein. and a schooling whip ready. Lead the mare to the ramp.As soon as she resists lunge her in a TIGHT circle 4M or less for a few minutes. No beating shouting or any other coercion . Offer the mare the option of loading .If she refuses ,carry on with the lungeing.again offer the option of loading etc. The principle is to reestablish your position as" Boss Horse". They do tend to get the message quite qickly.
 
A controller halter worked for my boy when he started this malarky, he soon realised I meant business. You can't budge a horse up a ramp if its genuinely scared, tried that and ended up hacking 10 miles home, but if they're just being stubborn then you have to be bad cop. Mind you, mine's a daft boy, women are entirely different!
 
Throwing a bucket of water up the backside works a treat, and yes, it does work when repeated!!

Alternatively, whenever she plants make her back a few steps, walk forward, moment she stops push her back (quite forcefully) if you repeat this enough times then apparently they get fed up and curious as to why you won't let them go any further and then march straight in, or so I've been told!
 
Try just wandering casually up the ramp, as if it didn't matter if she loaded or not........a little song "ummm, umm, hey hoy..." you get my meaning. Guaranteed to work - that is unless you REALLY want to go somewhere - then forget it!

The old gal doesn't go to many places these days and will now generally load in about 2 mins (with nuts in a bucket) but coming home - forget it - has never seen this trailer, ever, not in a previous life and it has dragons within.............!?
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Friend of mine with a very stubborn horse had probs loading, they had to open up the front doors on the trailer, push the back partition over to make more room, used feed, still wouldnt go in so she did all of that and then got 2 lunge lines attached one to each side of the trailer and had 1 person on each line and they crossed over so horse couldnt go anywhere but forwards. Was never stressed about being in the trailer he just used to get this look that said haha i beat you!! *blows raspberry*
 
I hate reading this loading advice, makes me feel quite sick at what people do to load!

my mare doesnt load and its an absolute pain, and people have tried to get her on a box in vile ways and i will never let it happen again, im working on our relationship and one day she will trust me enough to get on...which for the time being means i cant go out in a box which is a bummer! haha oh well we shall see
 
LATEST UPDATE:

This morning(Tues) tried controller head collar.
Taught mare pressure/release etc.

After 5 mins of standing at bottom of ramp, walked up into box, no drama. Probably helped breakfast was there!!

So day 1 and a little progress.
Thanks for all the replies.
 
Im so glad to hear that
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and she got a nice reward when she went on
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Im glad you had success without resorting to violence...!

I think thats more than a little progress thats a massive step! well done!

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