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Diana Carroll
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Username: Djane
Post Number: 8
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Monday, Sep 15, 2003 - 10:26 pm: |   |
Anybody got any good ideas on how to get stable mates to separate without an uproar when trail riding? |
George Taglioli
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Username: Tagloili
Post Number: 38
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Monday, Sep 15, 2003 - 11:15 pm: | |
Clinton Anderson has the solution. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 9113
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003 - 7:13 am: | |
Hello Diana,
We have a whole area on this common problem see, » Training Horses » Behavioral Problems » Separation Anxiety.
DrO |
Colleen Goolsby
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Username: Goolsby
Post Number: 55
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003 - 8:35 am: | |
Diana
Ours werent too bad. We started slow. On trail rides I would stop and my husband go on up the trail, around a bend or something. We would wait a few minutes the come back together. We would take turns doing this. Just a little at a time then increasing the time and distance they were apart. In fields we would go around in the opposite direction then meet at the other end, or if a trail split and come back together we would make them take different directions. Just little things. Once they realized they would see each other again they became calmer about being apart.
Now it dosent seem to bother them.
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Katherine Sue McGarry
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Username: Ksue
Post Number: 13
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, Sep 16, 2003 - 5:03 pm: | |
We had this problem with my show horse and ended up haveing to stall him alone. No horses next to him. No horse with him when he is turned out. He bonded to me and has won me many blue ribbons.
We let him be a "herd horse" in the late fall & winter. Early spring he is seperated again and I have no problem trail riding, or standing in the show arena waiting for my # to be called. It used to be a nightmare he was uncontrollable when the other horses started to leave the arena. +++ jpeg +++ 17563 +++ My Missouri Fox Trotter & I at the Mo State Fair +++ |
Diana Carroll
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Username: Djane
Post Number: 9
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, Oct 10, 2003 - 10:01 pm: | |
Thanks for the input, I actually have been using a lot of Clints methods and they seem to work well but I haven't seen one on this particular problem. My husband and I have been doing the short separation get back together routine all summer, and the mare was doing good up until a week ago when she lost it when her buddy went over the hill and I ended up on the ground. Back to the drawing board I guess. My next step is to remove her from the herd altogether again and keep her away for the winter and do more training. |
