Hello, so my horse has always had separation anxiety and has never liked hacking out by himself. when I first got him 4 years ago he would just whinny and jog all the way but as he settled in on my farm at home and got used to my hacking routes he got much better. I have recently moved him to a yard near uni and it took him a while to settle down again, he would whinny all the way around the fields and I got adviced to put him in draw reins (to bring his head down and his back legs under him) and to take a schooling whip and tap him every time he whinnyed. This worked for a while and he was much better, but then he started associating whinnying with the whip and would shoot forwards and throw his head up theatening to rear every time he whinnyed. I rode him for the first time today since moving him back onto the yard after Christmas and he was really frantic while I was tacking him up and kept trying to charge towards the field where all the other horses were. I started hacking him down the fields away from the other horses and he was being really naughty whinnying, stopping and doing little bronks and then for the first time ever he went up vertical twice and nearly came over backwards on me! This really frightened me so I decided to take him back and he reared again whilst spinning in a circle when the other horses came into view. It?s really put me off hacking him out alone now as it?s dangerous so I wanted some advice as to what to do! TIA
01-10-2018, 05:55 PM
Rearing when hacking out alone
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