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Location: Never in one place long | I have a 6yr mare I bought almost 2 years ago. I broke her out, she seemed pretty easy to break out at first. I have her doing everything now-sidepassing, pivots, trot, lope, started on barrels, great on trails, excellent ground manners etc... a few months ago on a trail ride, out of NO WHERE she bucked me off, not just a little like went crazy bucking from a dead walk and continued bucking once I fell off about 2 minutes... I figured maybe something pinched her, she got bit by a fly etc.... now 5 months later, she randomly did it again yesterday on a trail ride from a dead walk and same thing, ran off bucking not caring that she was leaving the horses... again out of nowhere!!
She's generally a very calm mare, not spooky at all, walks through water, over bridges nothing seems to phase her, at shows she acts calm and new places... She also every once in a while will act like something is "getting her" on her sides and act weird like makes this sucking in noise. I took her to the vet and he said nothing is out and she seems fine. he said she might be a little sore on one of her front feet and to put shoes on her but that was all he noticed and this doesn't seem related to what she's doing..
Any advice?? She never really bucked on me (other then a few small hops) when I first broke her out even or at all the first year... |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | When does she make that sucking noise, like when shes running? |
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Location: Never in one place long | Southtxponygirl - 2017-05-30 10:48 AM
When does she make that sucking noise, like when shes running?
nope, when she's walking... it's like out of the blue she will do it... a lot of times when I first get on, like she's afraid of my feet. |
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Location: Never in one place long | streakysox - 2017-05-30 10:54 AM
Ulcers will also make them act like this
I thought that also... vet said he doesn't think she has ulcers at all. :( |
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Location: Bandera, TX | I'd look into kissing spine. I had one that would be wonderful and then ever so often buck you off or flip over for no reason whatsoever. She has kissing spine. |
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Location: Never in one place long | GoMistyGo - 2017-05-30 11:18 AM
I'd look into kissing spine. I had one that would be wonderful and then ever so often buck you off or flip over for no reason whatsoever. She has kissing spine.
I was just looking into it! it does seem like it's very possible. she's so sweet other than that super random buck.. Thanks for suggesting. |
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| DLV - 2017-05-30 11:28 AM
GoMistyGo - 2017-05-30 11:18 AM
I'd look into kissing spine. I had one that would be wonderful and then ever so often buck you off or flip over for no reason whatsoever. She has kissing spine.
I was just looking into it! it does seem like it's very possible. she's so sweet other than that super random buck.. Thanks for suggesting.
You are welcome
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| My gelding would randomly buck and I treated him for ulcers and (knock on wood) never have had an issue. You may also want to research Uterine cysts. |
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| GoMistyGo - 2017-05-30 11:18 AM
I'd look into kissing spine. I had one that would be wonderful and then ever so often buck you off or flip over for no reason whatsoever. She has kissing spine.
I had a gelding that would do that. We would be walking and all of a sudden he would explode. He meant business. Turns out it was kissing spines and he had it for awhile. He was a tough luck case I bought. We ended up putting him down because of the pain he was in. I didnt want to but at that point, it was best for him. Still miss that ol guy too., |
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| I would check for ovarian cysts. My friends mare started acting like a stud and getting aggressive. Turned out to be cysts. Had hem removed and she back to her sweet self |
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Location: OK | EPM systems had the same issues with one |
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Location: Montana | I had a gelding do that...he went down the road as his behavior was completely unpredictable. But looking back on it, I would have checked into ulcers, as other signs pointed toward that (of course in retrospect), but at the time I had so much on my plate, one more problem was one more too many. |
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Location: Never in one place long | Thanks all, just had her to the vet last week but bringing her back tomorrow to check for kissing spine and cysts.. hopefully we can figure this out.. |
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Location: in the ozone | also add PSSM to your list of possibilities. BUT if you decide to check for it, send tail hairs to a lab (Animal Genetics is fast) for PSSM1 and for the various genes of PSSM2, send to Equiseq. Don't let the vet talk you into a muscle biopsy. |
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Location: OH. IO | Saw this same thing with EPM |
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Location: Florida.. | so she acts perfectly fine...............no other symptoms or issues riding her? then will buck once a blue moon on the trails?
id not worry about a disease............................... possibly shes got sore ovaries .. or ulcers but anything else and Nothing else wrong then Id go with that..does she have doc bar way back in her line? llol. my stud did and he did that.. random out of the blue.. |
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What the heck is up with my horse... weird behavior