funny things ...your horse does

[krissy3]

I noticed something very strange my old donkey does , and it made me think of this topic, so we can share the lovable and silly things our horse kids do. My donkey sticks his nose in the hay bag opening and uses it as a chin rest for up to 1/2 hour. So there he is with his nose and up to his cheek all the way in the bag and just resting there. Something my mare does when I grain her is , she rolls on the ground and tips her grain bowl upside down balancing it on her nose while she is laying down, she does this 3 or 4 times , when she is done eating , always getting the bowl on her nose, its very silly.

 

[River Wood]

Well lets see...I do have a mare that absolutely LOVES her wormer. Doesn't matter the brand/taste, she loves her paste wormer very very much. Can hardly get the tube from her, and she will follow you around to get it while you worm the other horses. Seems strange, wish they all loved their wormer.

Many of our horses in the summer will stand with their front 2 feet in the rubber feed pans that sit on the ground.

 

[nbark]

My newest little mini thinks my bigger mini is a place to hang her front feet over her back and rest and then when that becomes boring, she rapes her. She undoes the belly straps on her blanket, undoes the neck straps on her blanket and then takes the braid out of her forlock. Now mind you, my bigger mini is two years older and is bigger than this little one, who has the brass -alls of a monkey. Every day I have to redress Maggie and redo her forlock braid. She also "herds" her all over the pasture. They have only been together since December and I am wondering when Maggie will have had enough or if she is just letting this youngster have some fun.

 

[Bunnylady]

Syd can be a real pest if she thinks I have carrots (all right, I'll admit it, I usually do!) She knows she's not allowed to mug me for them, so she poses for them instead. She stands near me, and stretches her head and neck way-y-y out and up, and waves her head a little from side to side so I'll notice. I didn't teach her to do that, I guess you could say she taught me to give her a carrot for it!

My mini mule, Betsy, "sings." When she wants something, she tells me so with a wide variety of sounds, ranging from low-pitched grunts to loud brays. The sound she uses the most, is a long, drawn-out, wavering squeal, that is rather like the sound produced by slowly letting the air out of a balloon. It never fails to make me smile!

 

[ruffian]

My stallions stand in their stall feeders - which are about 30" off the ground. It really builds up their butt muscles!!

 

[lilmiraclesfarm]

Oh i did this one to myself. My feather was practically raised in my lap. I used to sit in the pasture with him and lay his head/body in my lap and rub his head to sleep. So now almost a 2 year old. I scratch him all over his body, he will lean on you and then lay down. Sometimes he will roll, sometimes he will just lay flat out on the ground. lol Sorta depends on where he just laid down.

My other horse pippi will talk if you have a treat for her. She puts out this quiet little grumble.

Shyan my 13 year old gelding loves attention in any way shape or form. So I sit on the ground and I take the soft part of his muzzle and I blow bubbles into the side of his nose/mouth. He LOVES it! Rolls and squirms his nose around as it tickles. If you stop he will push his face into you or start rubbing you for more. He is such a freak.

 

[LAZY J MINIS]

I HAVE A MARE WHO LOOKS LIKE SHE WOULD LOVE TO BITE ME FROM BEHIND.WHAT SHE IS DOING IS CHASING ME WITH HER NOSE STUCK OUT AND EARS BACK,BUT WHEN I STOP SHE DOES HEAD AND EARS COME UP AND SHE LOOKS AROUND LIKE WHAT DID I DO. WHEN I WALK OFF AGAIN SHE DOES IT AGAIN. YOU MUST REALIZE SHE IS 26" TALL BUT THINKS SHE IS MY QUARTER HORSE.

 

[lilmiraclesfarm]

I HAVE A MARE WHO LOOKS LIKE SHE WOULD LOVE TO BITE ME FROM BEHIND.WHAT SHE IS DOING IS CHASING ME WITH HER NOSE STUCK OUT AND EARS BACK,BUT WHEN I STOP SHE DOES HEAD AND EARS COME UP AND SHE LOOKS AROUND LIKE WHAT DID I DO. WHEN I WALK OFF AGAIN SHE DOES IT AGAIN. YOU MUST REALIZE SHE IS 26" TALL BUT THINKS SHE IS MY QUARTER HORSE.

Thats really cute! Like a little child making faces behind her mothers back. lol

 

[Bozley]

Well we have 3 horses that do funny things.

Bucky, one of our mini geldings, when he is all done eating his hay and grain will pick up his grain bucket and drop it in his hay feeder. It is like he is cleaning up after each meal.

Belle, one of our mini mares, loves to whinny whenever she sees people. On Friday's my husband works from home. He will have conference calls all day. He paces the house when he talks on the phone. Every time he passes a window Belle whinnies. This will go on all day long. In the summer he will even pace on our back deck and Belle will whinny like crazy. People on his conference calls ask "Is that a horse I hear?".

Rhett, my little gelding has issues with my daughter, Makayla, being near me. Every time I am leading him and she comes near me he tries to kick her. It is as if he does not want to share me.

Gotta love those minis!!!

Sue

 

[suz]

Every once in awhile, my guy will make a soft little squeak - just very quiet. Seems like I'm the only one that ever hears it, so I guess it's just meant to be shared between the both of us!

 

[maplegum]

Pictures speak a thousand words.

LOL

 

[dreaminmini]

Pictures speak a thousand words.

LOL

I just love that pic! Makes me laugh everytime I've seen it

 

[jleonard]

Well, I think all of my horses have some wierd little quirk, but I'll stick to the minis!

Locita is a goofball. She loves to scratch her belly. When she is getting up from rolling she will pause, sitting up, and rub her belly back and forth on the ground with this look of utter contentment ho her face! I'm sure lots of horses like to do that, but I always get a laugh out of it. She also likes me to give it a good scratch when I ask her to laydown. She makes this funny little grunt/ squeek when something suprises her. I recently started clicker training her and she now does tricks to get my attention. She will laydown, stand on a mounting block, or paw the air, then give me this expectant little look over her shoulder to see if I'm watching.

Suzy is the queen of looking cute. She will set her feet up perfectly, then stratch her neck and bob her head and make pretty faces until I pay attention to her. She taught herself to open her stall door. She lets herself in everynight. It has one of those latches that lift and slide and she is the master of working that thing! The problem is, she learned on a lock that slides to the right. I put her in another stall for a while, with a lock that slid to the left, and for the life of her she could not figure it out! Poor thing, she was so frusterated!

It is fun reading about everyone's silly horses!

 

[Maple Hollow Farm]

Where do I start!?

Bob has many things he likes to do! He has a jollyball that he learned to play bucketball with this winter. I would go into the barn everyday and find the ball outside of his stall or in his stall but covered with ice from being in the bucket at least once or even one memorable occasion where it was frozen in his bucket and I had to go break it out

. He also threw his feed pan over the door one day I found it perfectly centered in front of his door, it was like he was saying "here it is now feed me!" He also likes to rest his head on the door until I come feed him where I have to actually pull the door from out of under his head since he is resting on it so hard!

My little 28.5" stallion, Spot thinks he is hot stuff and has to be the center of attention. Any time he is feeling left out he sets himself up and reaches for a treat and if he still doesnt get one he just keeps stepping forward until you think he is going to fall over! He also loves to be scratched, rub all over his body and he will just lean into you until one of you fall over (normally him

) and if you scratch his back he dances back and forth to try to get that perfect spot. He also learned now that he can stand on the salt block in his stall to see out at chore time and this has come in handy for playing with his good neighbor Bob. Now he can stand on the block while Bob tries to bite him over the door.

Babe is a goof too she likes to stand on her stall gates so she can see over the rest of the stalls to either see where I am with her food or to see what else is going on. She also likes to half rear up at me if I go to feed someone else and not her. She has also learned how to undo parts of her blankets so I occasionally have to go in to redress her partway.

Our big paint gelding loves his back scratched and he will literally stretch his neck and upper lip out as far as it will go and move forward and backwards to get you in the right places. He is also a major escape artist. He has now mastered just about every latch we know of and he can even get the childproof latch undone in litterally seconds with just a flip of his lip!

I can probably think of many more strange things my babies do but I am exhausted and gonna go to bed, maybe I will add more later if I think of them!

 

[wcr]

My goofiest horse is my big 16 hand paint mare Whisper. She loves her belly scratched and will sidepass across the paddock to position herself for a belly scratch. She will lift her leg so you can get at just the right spot, the neck goes out and the lips start going.

When my overo stallion Trouble was a yearling and starting creating havoc in the mare pasture I didn't have anywhere to put him. I stuck him in with Whisper and they bonded and she thought he was her ugly baby. They worked out a deal that she would scratch his back and he would scratch her stomach.

 

[TheCaseFamily00]

My dad made a mini pedestal and Barney loves to stand on it. Since dad made the pedestal Barney likes to stand on anything he can find for attention,even bales of hay

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[MindyLee]

My 2 stallions are across from each other in their own pasture about 20 feet from each other. They both poop in the same spot everytime and are trying to poop themselves out so they can get out. If one goes poops, the other will poop. After pooping, they both stand on their poop hills and look at how much closer they are to getting over the fence to kill each other. I have to go out and remove the poop hills so they cant get out about every 1-2 months. But I know that is their plan... to poop themselves out! Little stinkers!!!

 

[Shortpig]

Lets start with Koda Bear, when I am cleaning their barn he will come in looking for attention and treats. He clamps down on the handle of the manure fork trying to get me to set it down. When that doesn't work he will step in front of me so I can't use it. I try to tell him he has to wait till the work is done but he doesn't listen. Ears are for cuteness not for hearing apparently.

Duckie likes to come into the barn with me. Once I free the swinging door the fun starts. If any other horse trys to ente the barn she slams the door in their face. Then begins the battle over the swinging door. I have been banged with this same door myself from behind. I know she is giggling while she is doing this.

Ariel is next and as many might already know her favorite thing to do is open gates. She spends alot of time figuring out how to get the silly things open. A padlock thru a hole not snapped locked is just a toy to her. She knows how to turn it and then pokes it out of the hole with her upper lip. So the gates here have pins and chains to keep them closed.

Life is never dull with our fur kids that is for sure.

 

[bullockcorner]

My son had a 1/2 Arab, and one bright winter day, I looked out the window to see him spinning in tight circles. Scared me to death, I thought something was seriously wrong with him.

I went out, and then stopped to watch him. He was chasing his tail!!

Just like a dog. He'd stop, then kind of pull his tail towards his head, and then start trying to catch it. It was so funny. Of course after watching him a few minutes, I checked him to make sure there were no parasites bothering him, etc. He was fine, and of course after I interrupted his play time, I never saw him do it again.

Same horse could also open any gate, and untie any leadrope. If I had a horse tied to the corral getting ready to ride, he would come up and "set them free". One time, had 3 horses tied in a line, and came back to catch him setting the last one loose! Crazy critters!

 

[End Level Farms]

One of my mares April (Landry War Paint G Daughter) Is 33.75" and loves to climb into your lap and snuggle. Or have you lay against her back. She will actually let you nap using her as a pillow.

She also when I put them in the back yard is sooo cute when she "Thinks" shes hungry (I think its more like everytime she sees me) She will neigh at me. And if you call her name and she cant see you she will neigh.

I swear she drives her field or paddock partners nuts because when they are all trying to "HIDE" She YELLS HIIIIIII WE'RE OVER HERE!!!! The other mares will drop their heads and give her THE LOOK.