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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Looking into getting kick chains for my mare. She's recently gotten into a wonderful habit of kicking the panels that separate her from my other mare. I was worried she would hang a leg, so hubby and I stretched farm/field fencing along the panels. She has annhilated the fencing in two days from kicking. So now I'm considering kick chains. Has anyone had success with them working? I can no longer turn her out with anyone as she has become a habitual kicker and my other mare is currently healing from an injury caused by her. I don't know what's gotten into her lately, she's never been such a pain in the butt. So, kick chains. Do they work? |
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Location: MO | Saw a lady at a show made some that hang from right aobve the hock. SHe said it weas her first weekend using them but she could already tell a difference becasue her trailer wasn't already dented. lol |
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Location: on the fine line between insanity and geniusness | I had a horse that we hauled with them. I made them out of dog collars, a quick link, and some medium chain. After he kicked once with his- I could haul him with just the collars around his ankle!! They work wonders! |
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| Try and take some panels and make a breezeway between the two pens. My mare would kick the fence to and I went and got some panels and made a 5' space between the 2 pens. She is calm now.. Just didn't want anyone right over the fence from her! |
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Location: Deep South | I've only tried them on one mare. They did work as long as she had them on. They didn't "fix" it. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | The way the run ins and panels are set up, I cannot (space-wise) set up an alley way to put more space between them, nor would I want to spend the money to purchase 30 more panels. Which is why I was hoping kick chains were a feasible option. Otherwise, I'm going to banish her to the round pen without shelter. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | What changed for her to start kicking? I would worry more about her getting hung up in the fencing then the panels.. I would put her where she dont have any body on either side of her. Or a end stall area so you have only one horse next to her. But if this was my horse there would be a electric fence/wires running along her fencing, chest high.. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Nothing has changed really. The other mare has been here for a 4 months, but this behavior started maybe two to three weeks ago. I used to be able to throw her in with anyone and she never had an issue, even this other mare.
It's a rental house, so we kinda have to deal with what we have. Which is basically one long run in, approx 30 feet, that we divided into two run ins, via corral panels, that extend down the lot so they each have ample room. I could corral off another section, but there wouldn't be shelter available at that point. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Roxie's idea is cheap and after she gets shocked once you can turn it off.
I have used pawing chains before with great luck. After the fist day all I had to do was leave the band on, no chain. Some horses only have to get a taste of the chain once and they stop. Some you have to leave the chain on at all times because they're smart enough to know when the chain is on and when it's off... These horses you can use the suggestion below on:
An alternative would be to get some boards and attach them to the panels. With certain attachements you don't damage the panels and they can be removed quickly in case you need to move the panel. Plywood is cheap and while it does warp It's a quick fix for a mare who doesn't like her partner.  |
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Location: OH. IO | can you find any rubber belting that you can hang lengthwise down the panels? I can get beltline for free so maybe if you look around at any mining places or factories with beltline you could get some?It would also protect her legs from injury. |
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| ~BINGO~ - 2017-07-12 1:48 PM
Nothing has changed really. The other mare has been here for a 4 months, but this behavior started maybe two to three weeks ago. I used to be able to throw her in with anyone and she never had an issue, even this other mare.
It's a rental house, so we kinda have to deal with what we have. Which is basically one long run in, approx 30 feet, that we divided into two run ins, via corral panels, that extend down the lot so they each have ample room. I could corral off another section, but there wouldn't be shelter available at that point.
Hormones maybe? Seen a really nice mare do this. Just started doing it one day. Seemed really random. Turns out she had a hormone imbalance. So we loaded her up to get her to the vet and on the way there she kicked inside the trailer. Broke her leg in half.
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| I used these on my mare and they worked for a while. She is one that will never tell you if she hurts until she REALLY hurts...so she just pushed through the sting of the chains and continued. I tried linking them together with a carribeaner clip, this worked for a while until she learned she could move next to the fence and kick it without being thrown off balance. I put her in a pasture with wire, she found the gate post and kicked that.
Needless to say, her legs are ruined from self injury and she looks like a living example of conformational faults/defects right out of the Merck Veterinary Manual. She now lives in her BOT quick wraps and hock boots to pad her from kicking and takes previcox daily. I hope yours is deterred much better than mine was. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Thank you everyone for the suggestions. I will talk with my hubby about our options and see what he thinks. He's our "bread winner" so I like to keep things as low cost as I can for his sake. My hobby drives him crazy enough as it is.... just kidding, he's my number one support in all that I do. I just hate asking him to spend more and more, especially for a horse that clearly doesn't care if she injured herself.  |
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| Also agree to check hormones. A friend had a mare that had this issue bad - and hauling in the trailer somehow can make what they are feeling more intense, hence more uncomfortable. Sounded strange to me, but that was the case. |
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Location: Willows, CA | Many years ago we bought a cutting horse mare that would try to kick the trailer apart when you hauled her. I put up with it for a while thinking we could change whatever was bothering her. We moved her to different parts of the trailer. Hauled her alone and with other mares and geldings. Nothing helped. I took a pair of hobbles that had a chain between and took one cuff off. That did the trick in just two or three rides changing the cuff with the chain from one side to the other. She was one of those boss type mares that had an attitude her entire life, but she never did kick the trailer again. Pretty inexpensive to try, your results may vary. |
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