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 Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia |
My friend has a mare that she just moved to her new house. This horse has a buddy but she has been constantly pacing back and forth down the fence line. This has been going on for 3 days. Is there anything she can do to get her to stop this? |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | Would it be possible to take the mare where she brought her from and just go for a ride? Sounds crazy, but I had one like that and that helped. I actually didn't go ride there for that reason, but I noticed that once I got him home he was much more settled. Like, in his brain, the world he knew still existed, so he wasn't so shaken up, lol. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| It helped my mare a TON when I treated her for ulcers. There would be plenty of green grass and she would just pace a trail up and down the fence until after her treatment. I remember being so happy seeing her in another spot in the pasture FINALLY. |
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Expert
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | If she has got ulcers from the stress of moving. She is relating the pain of them to the place she is now and wants leave and go back to where she was as that is the release of pressure. |
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Veteran
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| I was told when I got my new guy, that all he does is walk the fence. He wasn't a race horse, my mare was and will walk the fence with ulcers and without, she doesn't like being alone whatsoever. Even having a calf out there with her helps, she just needs a buddy at all times unless someone is next to her.
I changed his feed some and he is starting to gain a little weight that he needed and stopped pacing. Adding aloe juice and fresh cabbage helped him a lot, but every horse is different |
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Elite Veteran
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| One of my geldings did this after I brought him home. He had another gelding out with him and access to a huge grassy pasture yet he paced the fenceline in the dry lot area. Drove me (and my non-horsey) neighbors absolutely N.U.T.S. CRAZY!
But he quit it after he settled in. I tried putting rubber tubs, etc in his walk path but it didn't matter. He quit when he was ready to I guess.
I hated it though. |
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia |
Thank you guys for the replies. I doubt this horse has ulcers. But I will certainly throw the idea out there. This mare is generally laid back but has been known to pace in the past, more so when she was young and being seasoned. I think my friend is more worried that she is going to stress herself out to the point that she might get colicy - which has happened a few times in the past. |
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Elite Veteran
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| Just give him time. I have a horse in for training now that paced the fence for TWO weeks before she quit. Whinny day and night constant. She’s finally settled down, but will still occasionally pace/whinny when I move the other horses around. I put my outside horses in a central location so they get to see all the action and learn to ignore it…this girl has taken the longest! |
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Horse pacing the fence. What to do?