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 The BHW Book Worm
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| I have owned this horse for about a month. She is coming up on 5,foaled last year (i didnt own her then) has always been in a barn with large turn out or giant pasture. When i went to look at her she had 30 days of ridding and when i jumped on hadnt been messed with in weeks. She was a little spooky but nothing wet saddle pads and exposure couldnt fix.
She has a stall with a run and daily turn out to a large arena with a buddy. Free choice quality hay and low starch high fat feed. She gets desensitized everyday and is learning quickly she is always happy to come out and learn and it makes my job easy. The only thing is the spooking is jaw dropping. You dont even see it coming your working nice moving along and BOOM she doesnt just flinch she straight up leaps through the air i dont let her keep spooking and always work her in areas she finds scary and let her rest in them. She also snorts with her neck arched even when leading her. She also spooks hard in her stall/run even with friends on both sides. My spine hurts from all the jolting.she is improving but please let this end soon. |
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| Suggestion?
Have your vet check her eyes for floaters.
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The BHW Book Worm
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| Nope she is good had an extensive and formal pre purchase exam |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I guess you don't know. (because you're not a horse) But... there are Horse-Eating-Monsters out there EVERYWHERE!! |
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| komet. - 2015-02-06 9:18 PM
I guess you don't know. (because you're not a horse) But... there are Horse-Eating-Monsters out there EVERYWHERE!!
LOL...my friend just text me whos horse is her barn mate. I guess there is a ghost after her again
Edited by Thistle2011 2015-02-06 9:33 PM
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Location: North Dakota | Definitely ghosts. I have a gelding that sees ghosts too. For example the other day I put him in our indoor. Our well lit, windowless, sealed indoor, and was petting his neck then all of a sudden he snorted and literally FLEW 10 feet away from me. His hooves did not touch the ground. ABSOLUTELY NO REASON.  |
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Location: Minnesota | My gelding is this way. He was really bad when I got him but I just kept doing what your doing and things got much better. He still will spook at the dumbest things sometimes but at least I feel like I'm walking a horse instead of flying a kite. Continue to expose her to as much as possible and hopefully things will improve. Good luck.  |
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Location: Somewhere between the badlands and worselands | I had a booger chaser too lol. He would snort at the wind. Always kept things interesting haha. |
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Location: on my horse | My mom and I share a gelding that has his own weirdnesses. He is terrified of motorcycles and wind  he's a bit of a special boy!
It sounds like you're on the right track just stick with it! |
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Location: Kansas | My gelding was super spooky when I first got him. He was 3 when I bought him and I found out that he was treated really poorly by his "trainer". He would spook at absolutely nothing and was very head shy. It just took lots of time and patience and him realizing I wasn't going to beat him when he didn't understand. He's 18 now and still sometimes spooks at nothing but he is 100 times better than he was. He's a great horse otherwise so I just learned to deal with it. After 15 years he is definitely a one woman horse and still hates men, if I'm not there he won't let a man near him. Good luck and hopefully she turns out to be worth the frustration, my guy has been worth it for sure. |
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Location: Montana | My mare sometimes does that...I wonder if they don't hear things that we can't hear, be it a mouse or something in the trees. Like where I ride there are a couple of large stands of trees. Some days we go by them like they weren't there and other days they are completely and utterly spooky (luckily more good days than bad days, LOL). But I do think they can hear or smell things we can't. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | mtcanchazer - 2015-02-07 1:12 AM
My mare sometimes does that...I wonder if they don't hear things that we can't hear, be it a mouse or something in the trees. Like where I ride there are a couple of large stands of trees. Some days we go by them like they weren't there and other days they are completely and utterly spooky (luckily more good days than bad days, LOL). But I do think they can hear or smell things we can't.
Oh PLEASE!!! You have Mountain Lions up there!!! They live to jump out of trees!!! I'm not a horse and I'd be afraid to live there!! |
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Location: SE Louisiana | mtcanchazer - 2015-02-07 1:12 AM
My mare sometimes does that...I wonder if they don't hear things that we can't hear, be it a mouse or something in the trees. Like where I ride there are a couple of large stands of trees. Some days we go by them like they weren't there and other days they are completely and utterly spooky (luckily more good days than bad days, LOL). But I do think they can hear or smell things we can't.
..... and I KNOW they can hear things we cannot.... and I've heard tell horses can track a scent almost as well as a dog.
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Location: SE Louisiana | 3rdtimesacharm - 2015-02-07 3:14 AM
Welcome to my world
“: If ever I meet one of you Texas waddies who ain't drunk water from a hoofprint, I think I'll... I'll shake their hand or buy 'em a Daniel Webster cigar. :Rooster Cogburn...  |
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| 3rdtimesacharm - 2015-02-07 3:14 AM
Welcome to my world
So whats the count on slip disks and pinched nerves in your back?  |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I have had two horses do what you're describing. One wasn't making friends when I brought him home and I just felt like he missed his old herd. I took him back to his old barn a few times to ride and it calmed him down a lot. I guess it calmed his separation anxiety or whatever. The other one, as it turns out, was developing moon blindness. He always was spooky once it started and I ended up giving him away so he could be a nice pet. But, that didn't start after a move or anything. He had been where he was for quite a while when it started. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | One of the mares I raised acts like that sometimes. The last time she came flying in the barn with her eyes bugging, tail over her back, and snorting hellfire...and I said she's 5 now, I'm going to ride her anyway? She spooked at something in the woods and tried to buck me off.
calming supplements (THE and Springtime products both work well for me) and physical fatigue are your friends. I saddle her butt at feeding time every morning, and unsaddle her at feeding time in the evening. I've started ponying her some too to get her over her scary places. She's been acting like a dead head. She got so calm and laid back, I wondered if she was sick. LOL
On another note, my gelding started shying at stupid stuff last year, got better, then got so bad he was shying at barrels in a run. Gutteral pouch infection. We think it was pressuring a nerve and he wasn't seeing correctly out of his left eye. At one point, I took him to an ophthalmologist because I was convinced he was going blind in that eye, but his eyeball was physically perfect. |
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The BHW Book Worm
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| On another note, my gelding started shying at stupid stuff last year, got better, then got so bad he was shying at barrels in a run. Gutteral pouch infection. We think it was pressuring a nerve and he wasn't seeing correctly out of his left eye. At one point, I took him to an ophthalmologist because I was convinced he was going blind in that eye, but his eyeball was physically perfect.
Thats super scary. My mare sounds like your first one anything she things is scary(mostly everything ) her tail will flop over her back and she seems to grow 2 feet taller.. when she decides its not going to eat her she is back with her head low and wanting scratches
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| The vets do NOT check the eye as closely as they need to find the floaters. If you dont believe me, research the world class dressage horse that had the same issue...Months of trying to figure it out. |
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Location: Oklahoma | One other thing you might want to check....EPM sometimes affects their eyesight and will make them super spooky. Might want to run a test just to rule that out....the new one from Pathogenes is under $100....and their treatment is reasonable and works. |
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| J Cunningham - 2015-02-07 10:19 AM
The vets do NOT check the eye as closely as they need to find the floaters. If you dont believe me, research the world class dressage horse that had the same issue...Months of trying to figure it out.
She had her eyes dialated and jelled so that was good enough for me |
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new horse super spooky(vent)