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Post by solomon on Sept 19, 2009 20:55:57 GMT
We went out on a little hack tonight in the lovely woods, had a nice canter, horses behaving really well. Even went past a man eating digger, then we saw another horse and Peter got all silly. Spooking at nothing arching his neck, snorting right up on his toes. When we got back onto the road, he cantered two strides on the tarmac! He has never done that before! Any one else have a horse that can't cope with seeing another ridden beasty?
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Post by fleabitten on Sept 19, 2009 21:03:03 GMT
We met a horse and rider today and Kieran just doddled along as normal - he even stood really still when they went up the road away from him and a huge tractor went past. Although it was a different story at the pleasure ride! eek!
As for the other horse, it was working itself up and kept reversing and sitting back on his bum and spinning and napping a bit - i was crapping myself just watching it.
Well done for coping with Peter, i think you did really well.
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Post by haffyfan on Sept 20, 2009 14:32:18 GMT
We very rarely see other horses but mine get all silly and on their toes too. (Their are hoof marks in parts of the woods but we have seen other horses once out hacking so far this year).
I put it down to the fact that they are so isolated where they are it's like WOW another horse!
They even race around the field in excitement on the very very rare occasion a horse goes by or when endurance rides are on and they can see them going down edge of common from their field.
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Post by fimacg on Sept 20, 2009 17:45:24 GMT
mine if they are on their own get all excited, if in company less so
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Post by duckles on Sept 20, 2009 21:56:46 GMT
mine get all excied, sometimes show off, sometimes take off etc. it does improve as they get used to meeting horses outriding-
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Post by FirenLady on Sept 22, 2009 18:23:21 GMT
Fires really good, our neighbour has 7 horses and they can be galloping up and down and he'll just plod along and ignore them. The only one he ever had that he didn't like was a minature fallabella stallion who would sneak up behind him then squeal and go galloping off  We bumped into my friend who was going the other way at the weekend and he was really great. Same when we used to meet our neighbors horses out hacking. Pigs however..... |
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Post by fleabitten on Sept 22, 2009 18:26:06 GMT
FL - kieran is exactly the same as Fire. Cant comment on any pig situations though! ;D
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Post by florence on Sept 25, 2009 20:23:44 GMT
Mine used to get like Peter. We used to encounter quite a few others out hacking and some he wouldn't react to much at all but others would provoke the growing tall, prancing and blowing, neck arching etc. I think it's more to do with hormones/dominance than anything. We had some colts at our yard and he really went into stallion mode when they were near the fence when we passed!
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Post by gingernut on Oct 19, 2009 19:34:35 GMT
I think I've been very lucky with my lot - all of them are fine meeting other horses, although Lu got wound up at a meet once - her and another horse were winding each other up!!! Usually they were both fine! Not sure on P yet as not hacking yet, but she does try to join in when the horses in the field next to the school kick up - but that's just her age.
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Post by mossh on Oct 19, 2009 21:29:52 GMT
Mattie met other horses out hacking and promptly sat on the floor like a dog and gazed in wonder...he forgets he is a horse.
Friends horse launched into a string of 7 big bucks down the road repeatedly when he was overtaken on hacks but is getting better slowly (hes 18!)
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