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RE: [RC] Riding strategy -- mare in heat at an endurance ride - Katrina MosshammerI guess I'm lucky. I've had
Perle for 3 years now and I've only "caught" her in heat 2 times. Most of the
time I can't even tell. I don't do anything different that what I usually do,
since most of the time I don't even know. The first time I actually caught her
was a couple of months after I bought her and we were just riding at
home with friends and all of a sudden when my friend's mare went to pass us and
Perle went to kick at her and whipped her but around so I just spun her the rest
of the way all the time whacking her between the ears with my hand and yelling.
And she's never done it again.
The other time we had just
done a the 50 at Armadillo and the next day we went down the road to the Fant's
house so mom could ride her 4yo that they were starting for her. We stuck Perle
in the pen while they were riding, which btw was only separated from their
stud's pasture by about a 10 foot alley way, she never paid one bit of attention
to the stud and didn't go to that end of the pen at all. When we went to load
them back in the trailer we had to go back into the big pasture with the
other mares and geldings, which had come up to check out the trailer, and one of
the geldings got really pushy and pushed her away from me and ended up getting
her out of my hands and took her off in the pasture and we couldn't
figure out what the deal was until they finally stopped and she squatted and
presented herself to him. We finally caught her and got her in the trailer and
her followed her all the way to the gate, he was IN LUV!! But if it hadn't been
for that I'd have never know she was in heat.
Katrina
Mosshammer
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