The horse I share has two field mates who are causing me trouble. When I go to bring my horse in, the other two mares bite her, jump all over her and try to get out the field. Normally I am successful at getting just my horse out, but things seem to be getting worse.
When I turned my horse back out this morning, the other two came cantering down the field to the gate when they saw us coming then barged me out the way and escaped out the field. I managed to get them back in so no harm was done.
I had only opened the gate part way (just enough to get my horse in without her bashing herself on the gate) but when the other horses barged me I lost my grip on the gate and it flew wide open and they escaped.
Anyone got any tips on how to deal with this as clearly it is less than ideal. My horse has shared fields in the past but her previous field mates were well behaved and did not try to escape so this is new to me.
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Best way to deal with these troublemakers / escape artists? - help please!
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Pollypocket2012 · 09/06/2013 13:29
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