A few desperate conduct?! Eek?
My 3 y/o QH mare, Queenie, has a few bad habits and Im wondering what to do to stop her..
1. Whenever I saddle her up she will try to bite me.. Im not hurting her or anything she in recent times doesnt like it. I have tried yelling NO really loudly at her and sometimes I slap her (not really hard) on her side when she does it. Nothing is working.. Help?!
2. Whenever she is drinking she will paw at the ground. I know this is a sign of cribbing but she never does it except for when she is eating... Im oober confused, any ideas why and how to stop her?
Thanks!!
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1. Try putting the saddle on and not cinching it up tight. Walk her stale and tighten the cinch a bit at a time. It could be that you are cinching it too fast and too tight at once.
2. If she is only pawing when drinking no big deal, it could be she is just pawing at the hay and getting the best piece.
Ok when she reaches around to bite you. Hit her hard the first time. I know it sounds mean but whether you hit her on her nose it will slowly make her quit. After that act resembling you are going to hit her and she will stop and she may jump at first. but after a while if she doesn't quit hit her again. Pawing the ground is fine, all my horses do it. After a while they quit.
hey. i wouldn't worry too much about either of these issues. I regard as it's really a young defiance thing. I hold a 2.5y/o QH colt and he use to bite at me when i would saddle or use leg pressure. but don't slap bc then it just becomes a activity. she'll figure out that she can reach in and bite you, and hurry up and verbs her head back. Idk if you've ever see two horses playing in the pasture, but one'll nip at the other, and hurry and pull it's head absent while the other one tries to nip back, so popping her is one of the worst things you can do. try using a shield block. like, the next time she does it, hurry up and pretend to stretch, knock into her. the time after that, when she comes at ya, lift your foot up to scratch your leg, knocking into her. she'll finally come up with, ooh, better not do that again.and it'll cease to exist.
and my colt paws when he's eating too. but my 12y/o TB also does it. i have an idea that it's just a habit that a lot of horses hold. nothing to worry about. :D
1. Make sure the saddle fits. She could be in pain in need you knowing.
Answers: When you saddle her up stick your elbow out so when she turns to bite she hits it. Let her hurt herself when she go to bite.
The pawing when eating is OMG this is so good I can't devour it fast enough. Try to put some hay in beside the food or a salt block some times this will help. I have tied a small wooden block or bubble to the front leg and when they would paw the block or ball would hit them just below the knee. If they paw beside both feet then I would tye one to each leg. The bump bump every time they paw make them stop. Pawing will wear down the front edge of the hoof if they do it a lot and do not own shoes.
Well if u have her tied up tie her up really short, she may start to bite the fence newly smack her on the side or something and get the saddle and girth on a quick as u can, also when u have the saddle on her and whether she bites u when u tighten it, pull it a bit too tight at let it go final to where u were going to put it before.
By feeble pony does that, she was starved though, once they are starved they eat like they will never munch through again, but it is understandable.
I don't know anything that u can do but if she paws the ground only just stand near her with the hay, she would be tied up or in a paddock on the other side of the wall, and when she stops go to give it to her and if she starts again stride away and repeat until she stops then u give her the food.
Is a moral thing to get it in rash while she is young but younger horses have not got the "pecking order" surrounded by there head yet, they try and be th senior officer, while the leader it u.
Hope i helped with both question, Bye
stop the biting now. Plain and simple. Horses do Not Ever Get to Bite Humans. Try pulling a whisker when she turnes her head to you. Your going to have to lay contained by wait. Watch her and the moment she turns reach forward and grab a whisker on her muzzle or pinch what ever skin you acquire hold of. She'll stop if the game is painful for her.
As for the paw. its usually because of greed. They want the food so bad, because grain is approaching candy to horses. Dump a brick or two in her feed bin so she have to slow down and take her time to get the food. Our quarter horse does this. Its because he was starved until he be 3, and he still does it at 15. The brick in the food bin slow him down and make him concentrate to get adjectives the food and work around the brick.
