GI Treatment & Care

If you’ve ever been on the end of a lead rope trying to coax a balking horse up into a horse trailer, you’ve witnessed firsthand the effects of stress on your horses. Sure, that trailer can look like a scary place to be — but horses may be less intimidated by the trailer itself than by the thought of being on the road traveling.

We’ve all seen horses that we would label easily “stressed out.” We see them sweating when it’s not hot or they haven’t exerted themselves, behaving aggressively, or jigging and whirling around their handlers. Sometimes we see abrupt changes in behavior after a move to a new barn or when traveling to a new place.