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Location: Kansas | My mare had her baby 3 nights ago. Little filly. Mama and baby are fine. But one problem, I cant get near this mare. Now let me give you some insite before I get bashed. I have had this mare for 10 years, junior rodeod off her, she has been my go to. She follows me around like a puppy, and her and I have a bond that I have never seen before. So I didn't just breed a crap mare to a crap stud to get a crap baby. (: Ok, I handled this mare every day of her pregnancy, pampering, exercising, etc. And the last 2 weeks of pregnancy I checked her every morning and night and some through the day but not too thorough as to not stress her out because A watched pot never boils. Now, 3 days later, this mare will lunge at me over the fence, run backwards to try to kick if I go in to get her feed pan, and Lord help you if you go in her pen, you better be wearing your Nikes because she is going to eat your lunch. This is not normal behavior for her and I understand shes stressed out but I just dont see it as an excuse to become the wicked witch and put people in danger. Because of her stress levels though I have not pushed my boundaries with her because I didnt know what to do, and I have not allowed any visitors as where I live, the SO's family likes to swarm in on situations that they just make worse. Anyways, any help or insite or previous experiences are more than welcome... I am at a loss as to what to do with her. I want that bond back with mare and I but I also want to imprint on the baby. Thanks in advance.. |
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| Many mares tend to get a little overprotective of their babies, especially if it's the first one. I'd just give her a little time, maybe a week and she should calm down. Most mares do. |
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Location: Alberta | I would just sit back and leave her for a week or so..... |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | I have a friend that has a mare like this. I think she just had her 4th foal and every single one you can't come near her or baby for about 2 weeks or she will become dangerous. After a couple weeks she starts to return to normal. I would give her a couple weeks IMO...I've also never bred or really been apart of that process so I'm just speaking from what I've heard.
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Location: Kansas | Nateracer - 2014-05-16 8:46 AM
Many mares tend to get a little overprotective of their babies, especially if it's the first one. I'd just give her a little time, maybe a week and she should calm down. Most mares do.
Thank you, I just didnt figure she would get that aggressive to the point you cant even walk 20 feet in front of her pen without her trying to get over the fence at you.. That's not like her at all and this is my first foal as well as hers so I am a rookie I guess |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Just leave them both alone for a week or two. As long as she is a good mom and the foal is healthy and nursing they will both be fine.
This happened to me with the sweetest broodmare we have, I couldn't believe that mare had it in her to be so mean. For two weeks I just gave her space and she came around eventually. Now her baby is the most friendly baby on the place even though no one could get near her at first, go figure. |
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| Same thing with my mare. I owned her for 8 years prior to breeding her, thought we had a pretty special bond.....until her foal arrived. Then she couldn't care less about me and was all-consumed with protecting her new baby. It took 3 weeks before she was comfortable with me being by her baby. |
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| I too had a mare that was very vicious and protective of all of her foals. She needed about 48 hours or so to bond and settle with her baby and was fine after. Just as long as the foal is thriving and nursing well, I would just leave her alone and let her be a good mama. I find the dynamics of mares to be so fascinating! |
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| My mare, who was a 19 year old maiden when she foaled, was like this for about a week after. All I could think was, "what have I done?" After about a week, my mare became her old self again. |
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| I'm so glad you asked this. My daughters pony had an "oops" the other day (long story) but anyways, she's not aggressive but she aint letting you near it. It's been a week and she is getting better. I too have no clue especially since this was not planned. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | It will pass. I had one mare that lost her mind after foaling every single time. She was great the rest of the time, but for about 2-3 weeks after baby came, oh good gravy.
One of my girls just washes out if you catch her baby now.
I have another that runs to the hills with her foal when I walk in the pasture.
And, then another that could care less. They all handle it differently. |
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Location: Kentucky | I'm not sure why you would think breeding a crap mare to a crap stallion would make a mare more aggressive. However, my mare doesn't like anyone near her or her baby about the first 5-7 days. Which is ok with me because I know they need their space.
I had a friend's mare boarded here a few months back when she foaled. It was about 3-4 days before I could get near the baby. It's nature's way of protecting one of their own. It doesn't matter if your mare is the sweetest in the world, nature is stronger. Both of my mares are absolute dolls, but my LHDI mare will herd the baby away any time I got near him the first week or so. It's ok, she will let you around baby soon. |
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Location: Kansas | Murphy - 2014-05-16 11:59 AM
I'm not sure why you would think breeding a crap mare to a crap stallion would make a mare more aggressive. However, my mare doesn't like anyone near her or her baby about the first 5-7 days. Which is ok with me because I know they need their space.
I had a friend's mare boarded here a few months back when she foaled. It was about 3-4 days before I could get near the baby. It's nature's way of protecting one of their own. It doesn't matter if your mare is the sweetest in the world, nature is stronger. Both of my mares are absolute dolls, but my LHDI mare will herd the baby away any time I got near him the first week or so. It's ok, she will let you around baby soon.
I was just saying the crap mare to the crap stud so I didnt get bashed for back yard breeding as some call it (: Both mare and stud are very nice horses I was just eliminating a bashing before it happened. (: I bred her only for personal purposes, that mare is very sentimental to me. My grandpa bought her for me 10 years ago, and he just passed last month. We knew it was coming when I bred her and he was excited to have a baby out of her as much as I was |
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Location: Kansas | Thank you guys for all of the words of advice. It has helped a lot. I know horses, I am not a novice in that aspect, but definitely in the breeding aspect. Thank you guys so much. I am working on uploading pictures but not sure why my phone freezes up every time I try and my computer says it is too large to upload. |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | Think about this also, that's a load of hormones that are getting released and what not into the body at foaling and bonding time. She'll return to her normal loving self in no time....now PICTURES!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Kansas | How do I resize? Computer dumb over here
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | go to Picresize.com
browse your photos click the one you want
then go to the bottom where it says size "Kb" and type in 100
it should minimalize the picture to 100KB which is what BHW wants it to be in order to up load.
If you dont want to do all that or CANT send me a PM I'll get it the picture(s) up for ya.
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I've heard stories of mares running people out of the stall/pen but never had one of mine do that. I have had mares that will block me from going to the baby. Usually they get over that once the new has wore off. But I have an FG daughter that is still very protective and the baby is almost 3 weeks old. She's really hard to breed back with a baby by her side as well. A-I works better.  |
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| Like OR, I've had mares stay between me and the new foal, and I have one who if you catch her and hold her away from the baby goes a little crazy, but I've only had one bite at me and no heels my direction. With my crazy mare I do the minimum to mare/foal check and then leave her alone for however long it takes. Sometimes two weeks, once a month. Eventually they are happy that the foal has a distraction (you)!
I've also found that if I HAVE to handle the crazy mare or her foal, or any other over protective mare, say for rebreeding or some kind of vetting to either mare or foal, that a little tranq cocktail is a wonderful thing. |
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