Re: Separation issues.. Help!

 Oh wonderful the protective 'BFF',  i can't say i feel your pain as my gelding is happy in his own company as he is always bullied! I find it hard to get him to talk to another horse!

Maybe try and speak with your yard owner to get your mare seperated from this mare, or in with another horse to see if she'll calm down. The only solution is seperation really, sounds harsh. But you have to be cruel to be kind! 

Re: Separation issues.. Help!

 I agree with Kevin, hormonese is great, it calmed down my mare who becomes very moody while in season:/  I know exactly what you are going through and the problem is that your mare is a lead mare. She doesn't mind being taken away as she is in control of that situation but as soon as the other mare is taken away she panics because she isn't playing "by the rules" and she hasn't had permisson to go off on her own. Horses are herd animals and have a leader and your mare has this role, the best thing to do is if the owner of the other mare is going to take her out or whatever put your mare in the stable, she cannot harm herself that way. If she doesn't stress out then reward her. When it comes to the other horses she won't harm herself, no horse will do that deliberately, she is just trying to tell them that she is boss and that's the end of it. Let her sort herself out in the department.

I would say the hormonese is the only thing ive found to work and a magnesium supplement is a calmer aswell so try that. 

I would remove her to a field on her own because horses can get depressed being on their own and she clearly has a good bond with the mare she is kept with, dont destroy that. My mare is was emtionally broken and its horrible to see, so dont do it.. x

Re: Separation issues.. Help!

As everyone knows what works great on one horse don't on another, unfortunately no quick fix or one size fits all, I don't remember all this years ago but horse management has changed so very much as now a lot now kept in herds. Many are finding that our horse is the leader or 2nd in command this is with mares but as I am new to mares only 2 in 2 years as for the past 21 years before was a lovely Gypsy Cob gelding. Who ever said that there was no difference between a gelding and a mare never met our crew and found that bribery works wonders as times. All these things like Naf Oestress and Feedmark Hormonese are all expensive and fustrating if you find they don't work that well on your horse, still have a small tub of Naf Oestress in my feedroom, now on my third big tub of Feedmark Hormonese and wondering if Sabina will be in season all year or when autumn comes they will stop as this is my first year with her. Sabina can be brought in now by herself but gets restless when she knows another coming in and when they see each other wicker to each other, and in a morning the same Sabina is greeted by the others and I get surrounded by another 3 horses wanting a fuss then either my mare or the gelding escorts me to the gate.