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Post by louise on Jul 11, 2006 20:19:48 GMT
Just get a transit van LOL ;D. You now what i think ;)
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Post by welshcob on Jul 2, 2007 14:54:09 GMT
Have you tried opening up the whole trailer (ie. front ramp down etc.) and leading a friend through first? Then you quickly close it up before she realises!
Otherwise, if she's the type to stand on the bottom of the ramp and not budge then Ive found water in a squeezy bottle works well - just get someone to squirt it at them from behind and it usually surprises them enough to lurch forward and in! I also have used a pressure headcollar (a thin string one which tightens if he pulls) which worked well. If he didnt want to go in I would keep pressure on it until he walked forward (thus releasing it). He got the idea and then had a very quick strop with it and then would walk in much better. Nowadays he walks in perfectly or occassionally he'll stop for literally 5 seconds and then carry on in.
I know how stubborn shetlands can be though after trying to load my one at Keith Show a few years ago! She planted her feet and that was it! Little brats they can be!
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Post by Emma! on Jul 2, 2007 17:10:07 GMT
I know how stubborn shetlands can be though after trying to load my one at Keith Show a few years ago! She planted her feet and that was it! Little brats they can be! I remember my friends shetland once had to be lifted/pushed into a trailer by a couple of rugby players in order to get home from a show
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raquellian
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Emily - 29yo wonder horse!
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Post by raquellian on Jul 3, 2007 8:34:21 GMT
Re the shetland, my friend has got one who's exactly the same, plants herself at the bottom of the ramp and refuses to move. What we do is 2 of us cross and link arms (like the way you would do to carry someone between you in the seated position) and then just lift her into the trailer.
Deano - my old mare Emily has exactly the same problem re standing up when travelling. Despite this she is the best loader I've ever had and would load into a cardboad box. She's also one of the ones who needs the whole trailer to herself. Once the partition is out you don't hear a peep out of her.
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Post by gingerfilly on Jul 3, 2007 13:17:30 GMT
A close friend of mine blindfolded her youngster to get it into the trailer and i was so annoyed with her! The poor little mare was so scared! It takes time and also lots of good expenerices from travelling! I fixed a horse that wouldnt load into a trailer, A highland and he travelled super and was super to load and travel etc bu then they bought a lorry and drove stupidly and now he wont load into a lorry
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Post by watson on Jul 3, 2007 17:19:34 GMT
ZOE:- I used to work at the yard where oslo is stabled, one of the liveries offered me the chance to take her pony to the beach as oslo was going we set off and it was a nightmare she kept falling in the trailer by the tme we got there the tide was in, loaded her and set off well she was doing it again before we were even out of the beach so we unloaded and oslo went back to the yard and took the partition out came back for me and the pony and she travelled home brill as she was able to spread her legs vet thought she was maybe also clostraphobic(sp?)
We also find the annoying tapping of the whip on the hock works, have also used blindfold for another and another old trick which we always find works is patientce(sp?) and twist the chestnuts slightly.
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Post by welshcob on Jul 9, 2007 15:06:07 GMT
With regard to horses falling over / scrabbling about. I had one who began doing this. He used to travel ok to begin with but slowly he began having the odd srabble about in the trailer, like we'd be travelling along and suddenly hear some crashes for a few seconds and then he'd be fine again. He got worse and worse though to the point as soon as he was loaded, he would immediately begin leaning like hell and going over - it was so weird to watch, you just wanted to yell "stand up then!". Odd thing was that he loaded perfectly through all this! The only thing which solved it was to move the back part of the partition over or take the back 1/2 out entirely so he could spread his hind legs right out. If we had to take 2 horses then I took the parition out and used a full length breast bar, they stood perfectly beside each other (obviously I only did this with my own horses so they knew each other). He travelled beautifully from then on. I know of other peoples horses who've done the same and always been solved this way. I think some horses are claustraphobic definately.
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Post by tulip on Jul 10, 2007 17:33:33 GMT
Zoe I travel my 15.2hh in a 510 without a partition she travels perfect not handy when you can only take the one when you travel them this way tho!
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