With my cob!
hes always been super safe and sane! The odd spooks but they was nothing major, either tensing up, or a slight jump (like we do if something makes us jump)
lately hes been so up and down! One day spooking at everything, usual routes... With the same trees, fence posts, pot holes etc... Spooking like a loon! Then the next day full hack with no problems!
Today was horrendous! He hasnt been in work for a week or so due to a big break in his hoof, was waiting for farrier to confirm work was ok, then we had rainy days... Today he was a full on prat! And did something which surprised me! Turning off and head the opposite direction full gallop! Over a crop field changing colour! (Was all green, but now all black)
then just silly spooking, spent ten minutes walking up and down the same bit untill he stopped spooking! This was like a ten steps length of area he was so jumpy took ten mins to get him to walk it without jumping! Then out in to the village he did theroad fine and a barking snarling dog in a garden was fine! Wasn't impressed with the cows just before a gate back into thefields, this set him off again!
Now some hacks we are slow all the way just walking, some we do a mixture of speeds... So today i decided to let him have a gallop, its a rare opportunity that he will actually gallop as he's usually a lazy toad! But he galloped and the decided to throw some bucks in! Never done that before! As i said, safe and sane! How the hell i didnt fall il never know!!!) so he was pulled up and made to do some circles on each rein (we are lucky we was in a fenced sheep field we are alllowed to pass through)
Then trying to rush home got spooking again! So i decided to do hill work, we have some massive hills behind our field and he was very good going up and down them at different speeds.
His environmen is tons of grass but after lots of nagging the field owner has let us all temp fence the fields so he is being strip grazed, he's basically on bare ground (sunburnt) and every few days il movethe fence s few inches,this is mainly to control his weight. Hes on healthy hoof molasses free feed to add his supplments in which are his equine america airways (always has this and never any probs) biotin for his hooves and a new one, linseed oil recommended to help promote healthy skin (stubborn patch of mud fever wont shift!)
i was wondering does the linseed fizz them?
although i wouldnt totally blame that hes onlybeen on it two weeks and this behaviour started before then!
sad its ruining our rides to the point where i feel like not riding because its not enjoyable at all! Getting worse each time! Hes 7 now been hacking out for 3 years! Hes seen plenty of things, he rides round fields with sprayers right next to us and doesn't bat an eyelid yet being so silly lately!
hes always been super safe and sane! The odd spooks but they was nothing major, either tensing up, or a slight jump (like we do if something makes us jump)
lately hes been so up and down! One day spooking at everything, usual routes... With the same trees, fence posts, pot holes etc... Spooking like a loon! Then the next day full hack with no problems!
Today was horrendous! He hasnt been in work for a week or so due to a big break in his hoof, was waiting for farrier to confirm work was ok, then we had rainy days... Today he was a full on prat! And did something which surprised me! Turning off and head the opposite direction full gallop! Over a crop field changing colour! (Was all green, but now all black)
then just silly spooking, spent ten minutes walking up and down the same bit untill he stopped spooking! This was like a ten steps length of area he was so jumpy took ten mins to get him to walk it without jumping! Then out in to the village he did theroad fine and a barking snarling dog in a garden was fine! Wasn't impressed with the cows just before a gate back into thefields, this set him off again!
Now some hacks we are slow all the way just walking, some we do a mixture of speeds... So today i decided to let him have a gallop, its a rare opportunity that he will actually gallop as he's usually a lazy toad! But he galloped and the decided to throw some bucks in! Never done that before! As i said, safe and sane! How the hell i didnt fall il never know!!!) so he was pulled up and made to do some circles on each rein (we are lucky we was in a fenced sheep field we are alllowed to pass through)
Then trying to rush home got spooking again! So i decided to do hill work, we have some massive hills behind our field and he was very good going up and down them at different speeds.
His environmen is tons of grass but after lots of nagging the field owner has let us all temp fence the fields so he is being strip grazed, he's basically on bare ground (sunburnt) and every few days il movethe fence s few inches,this is mainly to control his weight. Hes on healthy hoof molasses free feed to add his supplments in which are his equine america airways (always has this and never any probs) biotin for his hooves and a new one, linseed oil recommended to help promote healthy skin (stubborn patch of mud fever wont shift!)
i was wondering does the linseed fizz them?
although i wouldnt totally blame that hes onlybeen on it two weeks and this behaviour started before then!
sad its ruining our rides to the point where i feel like not riding because its not enjoyable at all! Getting worse each time! Hes 7 now been hacking out for 3 years! Hes seen plenty of things, he rides round fields with sprayers right next to us and doesn't bat an eyelid yet being so silly lately!