Yearly misery

[Tobe_B]

All these people raggin on mares, I’ll take a mare over a gelding every day. My pen of mares has never quit me on a mountain, my geldings have. But to each their own.

If you called me to shoe her, I’d drug her. Either rompun mixed with xylazine, or a torbugesic. Dormosedan can get you seriously hurt for problems like hers. Dorm just slows the thought process on a horse, their reactivity can still be there and they can fire off and hurt you in a flash.

If she’s fine with shoe removal and the trim, but only reacts to nails being driven, then you can likely train her through that. Start be repeatedly picking up her feet and tapping them with a driving hammer on a shoe. Start lightly and build up intensity as she allows. I’ll also grease my nails so they slide easier and faster. Limits the amount of friction going through the hoof. Either nails stuck in Vaseline or sprayed with some kind of lithium lubricant. Just don’t put them in your mouth. That taste lingers.

 

[rayporter]

this is what the drugs are for.

 

[bmart2622]

Drugging her is a bandaid, not a fix. Like has been mentioned, isolate what specifically is causing her discomfort/anxiety and work consistently to fix it. Theres 2 ways to train animals and thats through force or through attrition. Its pretty hard to "force" a horse to do anything