My rising 4yr old filly has recently become very touchy.
She has been biting if we try to touch her sides/flanks/belly... i tried to check how warm she was this morning and she nearly took my leg off and drew blood! But yet she is ok to be brushed.. its just general fussing.
Now normally she is very sweet, easy to handle, gentle and cuddly... the kids handle her.. she is currently trying to take there heads off!!
She was in foal for this year but she slipped it in november (she would have been about 5 months pregnant), she not really been 100% since then... would you say the change in her behaviour would be normal for the hormone changes with aborting the foal? Would she still be uneasy...?
She does seem bored as well so we are going to start taking her for walks.. i was resting her after the loss of the foal and whilst she has been handled she's not gone out for walks since then...
What do you think? It not really like her... she was very much like this as a weanling, biting, turning on people and having a go but then once she turned into a yearling she totally settled down and was much sweeter in the summer.. but then turned into the devil pony again in the winter of 2007... settled again the next summer and last winter she was calm... the only difference i can think of is that last winter she was poorly though and was stabled and rugged.. this winter she has been out 24/7 unrugged and very fluffy...
She doesn't appear to be cold.. they have a big bale of a haylage out now from this week to munch though...
Not sure what to think really....
She has been biting if we try to touch her sides/flanks/belly... i tried to check how warm she was this morning and she nearly took my leg off and drew blood! But yet she is ok to be brushed.. its just general fussing.
Now normally she is very sweet, easy to handle, gentle and cuddly... the kids handle her.. she is currently trying to take there heads off!!
She was in foal for this year but she slipped it in november (she would have been about 5 months pregnant), she not really been 100% since then... would you say the change in her behaviour would be normal for the hormone changes with aborting the foal? Would she still be uneasy...?
She does seem bored as well so we are going to start taking her for walks.. i was resting her after the loss of the foal and whilst she has been handled she's not gone out for walks since then...
What do you think? It not really like her... she was very much like this as a weanling, biting, turning on people and having a go but then once she turned into a yearling she totally settled down and was much sweeter in the summer.. but then turned into the devil pony again in the winter of 2007... settled again the next summer and last winter she was calm... the only difference i can think of is that last winter she was poorly though and was stabled and rugged.. this winter she has been out 24/7 unrugged and very fluffy...
She doesn't appear to be cold.. they have a big bale of a haylage out now from this week to munch though...
Not sure what to think really....