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Horse Behavior and Training

rearing horses

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LennyLlama
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Hello!

my mare had a strange episode today. i was plaiting her up and she got bored so i let her eat grass for a bit. she was fine and all of a sudden she went buzzurk and starting rearing vertically non stop nearly landing on me prancing around, ripped the leadrope out of my hands and took off at a gallop stirring up everyones horses nearly causing a girl to fall from her out of control thoroughbred. for the rest of today she was terrible to lead, rearing and prancing. she has never shown this behaviour before and she nearly flippes over a few times of the hard gravel... have you any ideas on how to control this behaviour? i was correcting her the whole time tellong her off, using tbe halter, controlling her hind quarters and all thats stuff but she would just respond with more rearing...

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
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Hope others are willing to help.

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed

Hope others are willing to help.

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed

Hope others are willing to help.

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
Hello! 100 lessons completed 150 lessons completed 200 lessons completed 250 lessons completed

Hope others are willing to help.

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
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There seems to be a fault in the send mechanism. Hope support can fix it!

Rudi - Pratteln, Switzerland
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In my opinion the reaction was fear. Maybe the horse has been stung by an insect? A wasp?
Rudi

beryl
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Agree with Rudi!

vicci - UK (North Wales)
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It does sound like what Rudi has suggested Lani - a sudden explosion like that with no obvious reason could very well suggest a sting. How is she today?

JoHewittVINTA
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Hi. Firstly, be calm. That's one bad day and if she was stung by something then completely understandable. Stop trying so hard. Love her. Be loose, be cool. Tomorrow is another day. If you offer her leadership she will most likely follow - but you might want to explain this to the girl who nearly fell off. I'd be surprised if this explosion will become the norm - unless you inadvertently over react and make a fight normal behaviour. Good luck. Keep in touch.

MaggieF, Melbourne - Australia
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Hope she was better the next day. Sounds like a bee may have bitten her. No time to respond the other day.

Mel - Ramsgate UK
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HelpILoveHorses, when she first spooked what did you do? Were you on a stool, did you step back quickly, did you jump out of your skin? Combined with the spook your body language could have innocently said something to her that made her panic more. Try not to look at it as bad behaviour but analyze what really happened.
A shetland at our yard last week threw his little rider whilst on a hack and sped home on his own, when in the yard several people ran to catch him and he bolted off through the fields with people chasing him with lead ropes flapping in-hand. I left them to it and drove out and around to our field gate, only to find they'd chased him all the way down past my field and he was still running away from them. I took my lead rope and made it small, entered the gate and passively offered my hand to him, keeping my body language small and all the things we're supposed to do. He stopped running and approached me, touched my hand. I gave him a rub and popped the lead rope around him and led him back to the ones chasing him. Make you laugh, my field is about 1000 meters away from where they first started chasing him :D
I've never touched this pony before.
Point is - what their body language was telling him was panic and run away.
HelpILoveHorses Try and visualise what happened, something would have sparked the behaviour even if innocently done by yourself or someone else on the yard.
Mel
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LennyLlama
Hello!

yeah thats what i was thinking, maybe stung by a bee or something? she was fine the next day, was ridden and was perfect so just suspecting a bee sting or something like that :) and mel, i wasnt scared and i was right next to her, she just yanked the leadrope out of my hands (i need a longer lead rope!!) and ran off :/ she kept doing the same when we were leading her around for the rest of the day, prancing and jogging next to me, rearing up when corrected, etc but she was fine the next day :)

Mel - Ramsgate UK
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HelpILoveHorses - must have been something like that. I know when I was working Barney today on two lines this bee flew straight into his path and he did this minnie jump to avoid it. Made me laugh too as we were lunging in and out of objects to help him on his steering, bags, tarpaulin, water bottles, bins and a pram, none of that fazed him, but this little bee did. lol
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