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new horse being attacked by others at stable
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<blockquote data-quote="dcara" data-source="post: 42456" data-attributes="member: 473"><p>I agree with certherfbeef and bulllady. I doubt a short term one-on-one thing will do much good since once they are back together as a herd they will have to establish the overall pecking order again.</p><p></p><p>However, if your friend has control of the other horses you might tell them to "build the heard" with the new horse slowly. That is, first put the new horse in a pasture with one other horse. Then 2 days later bring in a 2nd horse, 2days later bring in a 3rd horse and so on. At least this way the new horse will only have to deal with one new advasary at a time and the whole heard is less likely to gang up on the new horse all at once. This also allows you to more easily identify a potential problem/dominant alpha horse who can be removed and re-introduced last when their energies are directed more at establising dominance over the heard than one paticular horse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dcara, post: 42456, member: 473"] I agree with certherfbeef and bulllady. I doubt a short term one-on-one thing will do much good since once they are back together as a herd they will have to establish the overall pecking order again. However, if your friend has control of the other horses you might tell them to "build the heard" with the new horse slowly. That is, first put the new horse in a pasture with one other horse. Then 2 days later bring in a 2nd horse, 2days later bring in a 3rd horse and so on. At least this way the new horse will only have to deal with one new advasary at a time and the whole heard is less likely to gang up on the new horse all at once. This also allows you to more easily identify a potential problem/dominant alpha horse who can be removed and re-introduced last when their energies are directed more at establising dominance over the heard than one paticular horse. [/QUOTE]
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