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Location: North Dakota | I've used ulcercureotc and had good luck! Most reasonable I've found |
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| Keep in mind the sides of a horses face have a million nerves ... so look at your headstalls, tie downs and how they fit over the poll ... pinching one of these nerves could be affecting his eyesight which is at the top of my list as a problem ..
A horse has very little depth of perception in his eyes... especially up close ... this is the reason a horse lowers his head looking at a puddle or log to try to tell how deep or high it is or silly people train the professional arena trail class horses to look at the pole they have to step over and the silly judges just love it give them high scores ... His lowering his head to inspect then jumping or bolting sez eye problems ...
Then again this horse may have figured out he can scare the crap out of your young kid and not get any correction .... so you may have to go riding for several hours for many days to get him tired and thinking straight ... the only new piece of equipment you might use is a shadow roll used on race horses ... but this is for ignorant horses that have no obstacle training at all ... they will jump a footprint or tire track when young and stupid .. lol ..
GOOD LUCK AND BE SAFE .. |
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 Fluffy Tuffy
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Location: New Sharon, IA | This horse does this before and after chiro adjustments. She is the same before or after the adjustment. She is wearing the same tack she always has been. She does not do this out in her pasture. It is not until I put the halter on her that she does it. Tie her to the trailer and she is fine. Untie her and lead her off and she will do it again. She does not do it every time either. Only 1/2 the time. Sometimes she does it when my daughter is riding her and sometimes she doesn't. I correct her behaviour each time she does it and my daugther does as well. I have literally changed nothing about our routine. Sees the same chiro, adjusted regularly. Feed is the same, tack is the same etc. I am just trying to figure out if it is behaviour, or if something is really wrong with her? This is a tough one, that is for sure! |
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| CwgrlTuffTurnin3 - 2014-07-10 12:03 PM
This horse does this before and after chiro adjustments. She is the same before or after the adjustment. She is wearing the same tack she always has been. She does not do this out in her pasture. It is not until I put the halter on her that she does it. Tie her to the trailer and she is fine. Untie her and lead her off and she will do it again. She does not do it every time either. Only 1/2 the time. Sometimes she does it when my daughter is riding her and sometimes she doesn't. I correct her behaviour each time she does it and my daugther does as well. I have literally changed nothing about our routine. Sees the same chiro, adjusted regularly. Feed is the same, tack is the same etc. I am just trying to figure out if it is behaviour, or if something is really wrong with her? This is a tough one, that is for sure!Â
Sombody borrow her?
My one mares been pretty snakie with her back end since she was borrowed, havent got a clue what crawled up her and died, but what ever crawled up her is pretty big lol.
I also did have a horse get in a bad wreck, and for how bad it was he was only a bit stiff for a few days, one little hair scratch no blood. He was never "right" afterwords, could she have whiped out and hit her head in pasture? |
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Fluffy Tuffy
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Location: New Sharon, IA | Nope nobody has been on her other than my daughter 99% of the time and me 1% of the time. She very well could have fallen and hit her head but I'm not sure what that would have done to make her act this way so intermittently? She does not freak out when my kids ride 4 wheelers by her or I mow behind her in the pasture, or when cars whiz up and down our gravel road that is only 15 feet from her pasture. She does not do this at the trailer or in a stall at a race. She only does this when we are leading her, or on her. |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| Probably a long shot but I had a good gentle mare start freaking when I would go to catch her or start leading her or sometimes even pet her...turned out to be a really sharp spot on one of her molars that was slicing her jaw so anytime something touched that part of her face she'd go bezerk but it took me a while to realize what the trigger was since sometimes I was just leading her and was 5 feet away. Got her teeth done and within 3 weeks she was back to her old sleepy self again, thank goodness! Just a thought..... |
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Fluffy Tuffy
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Location: New Sharon, IA | This mare just had her teeth done in February. These issues did not start happening until Mid May sometime. |
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Fluffy Tuffy
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Location: New Sharon, IA | I really wish I could pin point the problem. We are leaving for youth world Friday morning and this mare is going so I hope she is up to it! This is our first trip there! |
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| Get her scoped for ulcers. That would either confirm or rule out at least one possibility. |
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 Lady Di
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Location: Oklahoma | You might want to have her tested for EPM....it WILL affect the vision sometimes. Jackie Jatzlau's good horse, Rooster, that she took to the NFR had it and it made him go blind in one eye. I had a friend who had a 10 yr old mare that was acting just like you describe this mare, only it started with the trailer. One day she started spooking at the trailer and wouldn't load. She thought the trailer was shocking her at first, checked the wiring, nothing wrong...then went the whole bit with ulcers, chiro, etc. It ended up being EPM....once she treated her for that, she quit spooking, would load, and was her old self.
Edited by dianeguinn 2014-07-11 1:04 PM
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 Sexy Bee Yacht
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Location: WA | Lol, time to call the horse communicator. In all seriousness though, I have used Kathy George with good results. The sometimes spooking is hard to deal with. |
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Location: Mountains of VA | dianeguinn - 2014-07-11 1:01 PM You might want to have her tested for EPM....it WILL affect the vision sometimes. Jackie Jatzlau's good horse, Rooster, that she took to the NFR had it and it made him go blind in one eye. I had a friend who had a 10 yr old mare that was acting just like you describe this mare, only it started with the trailer. One day she started spooking at the trailer and wouldn't load. She thought the trailer was shocking her at first, checked the wiring, nothing wrong...then went the whole bit with ulcers, chiro, etc. It ended up being EPM....once she treated her for that, she quit spooking, would load, and was her old self.
Agree with the EPM thought. A boarder horse where my daughter works started acting strange, similiar to your mare. One day she would be fine, the next day spooking at everything. The owner's went through all types of treatments and testing. Gradually the horse got more dangerous because she would just bolt and run through fences, with our without a handler. Finally tested her for EPM and it was positive. Unfortunately, the mare was euthanized due to her dangerous bolting and not responding to treatment. |
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