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| Ever since my daughter's old horse showed up on the property (a month ago) Poprocks won't stop. Won't stop believin...that she's gonna get some satisfaction.
Now...nobody will ride with me... "how's that mare's libido?" they ask... She's still lookin for love in all the wrong places...I say. NOPE. Nobody wants to ride with me.
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Hawty & Nawty
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| I've never seen a mare squat down as far as possible just so something else would have a chance. I can't go outside without gaining some kind of education. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I had a mare that when you would saddle up to go ride she would get all excited and squat when you were getting on her  I hated it every time she come in heat. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR |  I spank butts for that. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| I've owned this mare over a year now and this is the first season that she's been this bad. I wonder if someone moved a stud in around here that is making her so loony? |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My mare was young one, but after her first baby she stoped doing the squating thing. But I dont worry about this anymore all I ride now is geldings. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-05 3:11 PM I spank butts for that.
I agree.....spanky....spanky...... |
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| NJJ - 2014-04-05 4:53 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-05 3:11 PM Â I spank butts for that.Â
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Just Plain Lucky - 2014-04-05 6:40 PM NJJ - 2014-04-05 4:53 PM Three 4 Luck - 2014-04-05 3:11 PM I spank butts for that.
Ha ha ha ha,,, The mare might bring out the leathers and chains..... And the pony bits...LOL |
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Location: your guess is as good as mine | RidenFly - 2014-04-05 2:27 PM I've owned this mare over a year now and this is the first season that she's been this bad. I wonder if someone moved a stud in around here that is making her so loony?
Might get her ovaries checked - if she's got cysts it will throw her hormones outta whack. When my mare turned 24 she started "winking" at anything that moved...constantly. Owned her since she was 2 and she never showed signs of being in heat - had her checked and her ovaries/uterus were full of cysts. Luckily she doesn't have an attitude and doesn't get sore...she just tends to act studdy when the other two mares come in season lol. |
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Location: relocated to Texas | Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares. I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why.
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 1:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares. I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why.
Thank you Hollywood. Will do that this week! |
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Location: In my own world | RidenFly - 2014-04-06 5:56 PM
Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 1:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares.  I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why.
Thank you Hollywood. Will do that this week!Â
If your mare was eating straight alfalfa would you still need this supplement? My mare has been mareish this year. She is 5. But she started this when at a trainer on straight alfalfa and under lights. Took about 2 months of lights to set her off. I gave her a shot of alternogist 2 weeks ago. She is in heat today. Don't want to over do it |
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Forever Young
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Location: relocated to Texas | livinonlove&horses - 2014-04-07 5:01 PM RidenFly - 2014-04-06 5:56 PM Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 1:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares. I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why. Thank you Hollywood. Will do that this week! If your mare was eating straight alfalfa would you still need this supplement? My mare has been mareish this year. She is 5. But she started this when at a trainer on straight alfalfa and under lights. Took about 2 months of lights to set her off. I gave her a shot of alternogist 2 weeks ago. She is in heat today. Don't want to over do it
I would take her off of the straight alfalfa. Alfalfa does have calcium in it, but the calcium and phosphorus (sp?) should be balanced and I am not sure that the alfalfa provides that. Some horses cannot tolerate alfalfa very well. If your horse started this behavior after this change in her diet, I would go back to what you were feeding and see if it helps too. |
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Ms. Poutability
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Location: In my own world | Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 8:00 PM livinonlove&horses - 2014-04-07 5:01 PM RidenFly - 2014-04-06 5:56 PM Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 1:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares. I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why. Thank you Hollywood. Will do that this week! If your mare was eating straight alfalfa would you still need this supplement? My mare has been mareish this year. She is 5. But she started this when at a trainer on straight alfalfa and under lights. Took about 2 months of lights to set her off. I gave her a shot of alternogist 2 weeks ago. She is in heat today. Don't want to over do it
Thanks. I was feeding a grass alfalfa mix. Then she went to a trainer and was on straight alfalfa and under lights. Yes behavior changes. She is back home now and back on her mix. |
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Ms. Poutability
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Location: In my own world | Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 8:00 PM
livinonlove&horses - 2014-04-07 5:01 PM RidenFly - 2014-04-06 5:56 PM Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-07 1:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares.  I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why. Thank you Hollywood. Will do that this week! If your mare was eating straight alfalfa would you still need this supplement? My mare has been mareish this year. She is 5. But she started this when at a trainer on straight alfalfa and under lights. Took about 2 months of lights to set her off. I gave her a shot of alternogist 2 weeks ago. She is in heat today. Don't want to over do it
Thanks. I was feeding a grass alfalfa mix. Then she went to a trainer and was on straight alfalfa and under lights. Yes behavior changes. She is back home now and back on her mix. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Hollywood's Fan - 2014-04-06 3:14 PM Seriously Riden, sometimes a mare's heat cycle can be affected because of a lack of minerals - mostly calcium. I would put her on a good calcium/phos supplement (I use Dynamite 2 to 1) and see if that helps. The minerals should be chelated for best absorbtion. And, before you roll your eyes at this idea and think it couldn't be that easy - I have seen this help several mares. I have made a believer out of more than one miserable mare owner. My own mares get minerals on a regular basis. During their heat cycles they eat up the calcium. I have never had a "marish" mare and I believe this is why.
I bet you are right, I had a super nice mare years ago that was just awful when she was in heat. She always tried to eat sand when I would let her roll after a run and she would just lick the dirt instead of drink when I would offer her water at a stock pond. The vets just looked at me like I was crazy when I insisted she had to be deficient in something to have these weird habits. So sad if her issues could have been so easily fixed, live and learn. |
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Location: London Ontario | I have a 5YO mare who constantly eats the sand in our indoor arena, I just put her on a vit/min pellet last week along with Noni and ACV and Biotic 8 by Omega Alpha, how long till she will stop eating dirt?! Sorry to Hijack.... |
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