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Location: Rocky Mountains | Good hell! This horse acts like it just got some Christmas balls run up her butt! She's taken out my trailers drop down windows and 2 fences in one day! I have handled and taken care of horse separation issues before but this horse is crazy and won't calm down! she's 100% fine if you or another horse is around! You can not leave her alone unless you want to risk her majorly harming her self in the process of damaging property! She'll even ground tie for hours as long as your in her sight! It's the second she feels alone! I've separated her a few times and she jumps the fence. So I moved my round pen and put her there every other day but she just paces the entire time! Hardly eats or drinks anything! She'd do it 24/7 if I left her there all week! Usually I just leave a horse tied after every working session and they end the issue within a few days! But she is relentless! PLEASE HELP!
Btw she is 2 yrs old and I got her at a select horse auction so I had no idea what I was getting into! I've broke colts of anxiety several times before. She's different.
Edited by Chasin97canz 2015-07-04 10:51 PM
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Location: South MS | My 5yr old has just started acting that way. I've had her since December, no new changes for her. She gets very dangerous. ....just like your horse, if you are near her, she's fine. Put a horse beside her, and she may kick.......but walk that same horse out of her sight and she loses it |
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Location: Alberta | My now 5 year old was the same way (kick barn walls, broke his teeth off on my trailer AND behaviour escalated with time didn't decrease) until about late 3 year old year he started to mellow out....while I'm all for patient pole some horses do need to at the least see other horses....my guy has mellowed since he started getting rode and using his brain, instead of having other things to keep his minded fixed on ( his buddies)
He still isn't a "perfect" horse when left alone but he doesn't destroy things and will paw a small hole.....I'll take it verses before lol
Edited by dream_chaser 2015-07-05 6:50 PM
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Take baby steps. Stay visible but increase distance. Such as tie to trailer then walk a circle around it several times. Any thing to stay but invisible. When being tied use 2 halters and 2 ropes. Tie to stout posts and fences. |
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| My yearling is like this but not dangerous (thank God). She paces like crazy if you put her in a pen by herself or tie her where she cant see another horse. Even if the horse is standing on the other side of the fence right in front of her she will pace a 20-30ft section. Now that being said, I put her in the arena and put my 2 big horses in the pasture that butts up to it and she paced for probably 20 hours collectively. Today was day 2. She finally started grazing (my arena is grown up- basically a turnout lol). By the end of today she cared they were not in there with her but had stopped pacing. Tonight I have one horse in each pen on either side of the arena but not in there with her.
A few weeks ago I tied her to a tree and it took 3 hours for her to settle. The day we started with the being in a pen alone I tied her for about 6 hours (she had water) and she never stopped. I had to leave the house so that's when she went in the pen by herself to show her she didn't win by not cooling it.
If anyone finds a cure, lemme know. I have NEVER had a horse like this. Hopefully being just a yearling she will grow out of it. This filly took me by surprise because she lived in a 10X20 by herself from the time she was weaned until almost a yearling because she had physitis and had to be stalled. Once I moved, she got a 15X30 pen outside with a run in shed because she was still supposed to be "up" and that's when the pacing started. |
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Location: IL | Just an FYI, I have a horse like this. As soon as I started treating for ulcers he's gotten tons better. He still prefers to be with another horse, but now he will stand tied and I can actually trailer him alone. Prior to me treating him for ulcers, he jumped into the mangers in my trailer, tried hanging himself tied to the trailer and broke the window out. He would never stand tied good at all. And if he was tied next to a horse he might kick the crap out of them. Just something to look into  |
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Severe separation anxiety