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2007-01-07 12:58:27 · 8 answers · asked by jessica j 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Get a Friend to ride out with you and then separate after you are away from the barn. Ride about a 1/4 mile apart. That will help to calm your horse while she gets over the rough patch.
If you have no friend available. Walk her out away from the barn and then mount and ride away. Don't expect her to be gone for a very long time on the first trip out. Graduate to longer and longer rides.
2007-01-07 13:55:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 1⤋
Something that might help is to do a lot more work when you get back from your ride. For example, say she just wants to go to the gate nearest the other horses and just stand there. Once she gets to the gate, turn her, trot circles, work on roll-backs along the fence, don't let her stop moving or reward her for returning to the barn. Make her feel better once she agrees to leave the barn area and let her relax and take a breather once she settles down away from the barn. Making it more work to be at home than away may help change her mind about her attachment to the barn/other horses.
2007-01-07 22:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had this problem too..... Its a pain in the, well you know. You feel kind of debilitated. After my mare had her foal and had weaned him she just did not want to leave the property.
First and foremost don't lose your temper! You will not win that fight. My mare has the biggest stubborn streak I have ever seen in a horse. LOL I tried getting off and walking her out, but i said to myself I am not doing this every time!
After trying many different things and so on, I asked myself what is sooo appealing about the barn besides her baby? FOOD. So Id get to the barn at feeding time, pack her feed in a plastic bag and put the plastic bag and a small ground pan in my saddle bags. I brought her into the barn and did not put her in her stall. Instead I tacked her up and rode out to the trails and fed her out on the trails. I did this for many weeks. It was kind of fun. The point was to give her something very positive to look for. Make the horse want to go out and leave the barn. I never feed her in the same place twice. It worked for us.
The funny thing was when I was too lazy to tack her up and go out Id feed her out of the back of my truck. Well lets say that she really, really likes my truck.... LOL
If you try this let me know how it goes... IM me at redneck_girl_gt
P.S. She eats in her stall now and is not barn sour
2007-01-07 22:03:42 · answer #3 · answered by ♥Jennifer♥ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just typed in barn sour in search and came up with Equisearch.com they have an article on how to help
2007-01-07 21:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by Brent L 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is barn soured?
2007-01-07 21:05:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had the same problem.
what i did is i started slow, i would take my mare out for a ride on the trails i would ride her a little then i would ride back to the gate and then out a little further till she started to tense up then i did circles with her and started out again.
i would start by only going til she couldn`t see the gate and then every day we went further now i can trail ride her by her self/
just start by going slowly.
2007-01-08 15:07:18 · answer #6 · answered by horses 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
STABLE ONLY OF A NIGHT AND GIVE FREEDOM DURING THE DAY WITH EXERCISE........................
2007-01-07 23:04:38 · answer #7 · answered by Maley 3 · 0⤊ 9⤋
IDK
2007-01-07 21:01:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋