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Location: Cocoa, Florida | So I’ve had this mare a Little over a year now and noticed when I hosted her after a ride or even just took the saddle off she would seek out a sandy spot and immediately roll. I’ve always heard that’s good for horses, it can readjust their back. Well now......she runs to the sand piles at our barn and first thing she does is run her face in them! So I have decided if I keep this horse I am going to build her a giant sandbox of her own LOL here’s a video
https://youtu.be/8iAN5jrnkaU
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Location: Arkansas | RnRJack - 2018-06-18 6:20 PM
So I’ve had this mare a Little over a year now and noticed when I hosted her after a ride or even just took the saddle off she would seek out a sandy spot and immediately roll. I’ve always heard that’s good for horses, it can readjust their back. Well now......she runs to the sand piles at our barn and first thing she does is run her face in them! So I have decided if I keep this horse I am going to build her a giant sandbox of her own LOL here’s a video
https://youtu.be/8iAN5jrnkaU
So what are some of your horses habits or quirks?
You should buy her her own little beach front property!!!! |
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| a gelding of mine hates an open gate....he will close any gate he has a chance to...even if it means locking himself in a pen. And he doesn't just close them, he slams them shut! |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | Two of mine are into barrel racing... not the kind we are familiar with. Both roll barrels at high rates of speed then spin them like a top. The one that is broke will roll them on cue when riding him. I think I like this, since I don’t have to get off to move barrels.
Another horse is fond of toting tires and jumping up in the air to catch those great big 36” vinyl balls. He will also try to catch a frisbee. Bless his heart, he’s not very good at it. |
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Location: Arkansas | treasurehunter - 2018-06-18 11:58 PM
Two of mine are into barrel racing... not the kind we are familiar with. Both roll barrels at high rates of speed then spin them like a top. The one that is broke will roll them on cue when riding him. I think I like this, since I don’t have to get off to move barrels.
Another horse is fond of toting tires and jumping up in the air to catch those great big 36” vinyl balls. He will also try to catch a frisbee. Bless his heart, he’s not very good at it.
I'd love to see this!!! But not if you do the fancy jump thing where he comes off your back and catches it 
(Is this Vinnie??!!!)
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| treasurehunter - 2018-06-18 11:58 PM
Two of mine are into barrel racing... not the kind we are familiar with. Both roll barrels at high rates of speed then spin them like a top. The one that is broke will roll them on cue when riding him. I think I like this, since I don’t have to get off to move barrels.
Another horse is fond of toting tires and jumping up in the air to catch those great big 36” vinyl balls. He will also try to catch a frisbee. Bless his heart, he’s not very good at it.
This makes me want to put a barrel out in their pen just to see what will happen!!!
Ours are pretty normal? My little horse has this sassy head tossing/neck snaking thing he does, mostly at feeding time. He has little man syndrome though, I’m pretty sure he’s a 17hh fresian stallion in his 14.1h QH mind and he’s tossing lucious locks like Fabio.
He also takes his rolling very seriously. When we’re at races and he has to be stalled or tied out I always make sure I try and get him to a nice soft place to roll, and he’s always down within about 10 seconds of getting in the arena - sometimes it’s actually a challenge to get him far enough off the fence!!! |
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Location: Oklahoma | One of mine plays all the time! If he is in the pasture with the walker he will grab the lead rope and pull tight and let go and watch the arms bounce! My neighbor seen it and so funny he forgot to video! He mainly lives in another pasture but Ill catch him one day! |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | treasurehunter - 2018-06-18 11:58 PM
Two of mine are into barrel racing... not the kind we are familiar with. Both roll barrels at high rates of speed then spin them like a top. The one that is broke will roll them on cue when riding him. I think I like this, since I don’t have to get off to move barrels.
Another horse is fond of toting tires and jumping up in the air to catch those great big 36” vinyl balls. He will also try to catch a frisbee. Bless his heart, he’s not very good at it.
My mare likes to help me roll barrels also, but yes you should get all of that on film! |
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| My mare dances like Zenyatta. It used to annoy me but I just figured it was her way of letting off tension before a run. She also does this thing where she raises her front leg when I get ready to put her in her stall to be fed. She does this all the time, first one front leg then the other. She also does that when she is waiting for her run. |
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| My little mare likes to help me put her halter on when I am done riding. She drops her head and puts her head and pushes in really hard. I guess to make sure it is on? She will also drop her head and wrap it around me to help put her bridle on. But she doesn't shove her head in it like she does her halter. |
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| I have a snorter and I am not talking about a little blow. I am talking a full snort that will echo on concrete. It concerned my vet so much that he scoped her to make sure she didn't have a blockage or soft palate issue. All clear! That's just her thing! But let me tell you if she finds an empty water bucket or muck bucket or 55 gal drum it'll make your eardrums rattle when she sticks her head down and blows! |
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Location: Illinois | RedHead84 - 2018-06-19 10:25 AM
I have a snorter and I am not talking about a little blow. I am talking a full snort that will echo on concrete. It concerned my vet so much that he scoped her to make sure she didn't have a blockage or soft palate issue. All clear! That's just her thing! But let me tell you if she finds an empty water bucket or muck bucket or 55 gal drum it'll make your eardrums rattle when she sticks her head down and blows!
My 4 year old does that too, she sounds like a dinosaur when she does it. She'll randomly snort/blow all the time. She's got a ton of weird quirks. She absolutely loves one of the barn cats, they're always together. They'll go hang out together in the pasture all the time or the cat will lay in her stall with her. Sometimes when she sees the cat coming she'll call to her. She's weird. |
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Location: MN | My 11 year old paint gelding hates the color white. Scared to death of it. Go figure since he's half WHITE!
He just learned this past year that he could roll at the end of a lead rope, now that's his new favorite thing to do.
You have to keep jackets unzipped around him or he will try to unzip it for you. He's actually very careful about it if you let him do it lol. Want to go rope? You have to let him sniff and snort at the rope before you put it on your saddle or you'll watch him jump 4ft in the air. I love every single ounce of this horse to death and his quirks make me laugh. Some people shake their heads, but I dont care :)
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| My gray gelding was afraid of my gray 5 star saddle pad for a while until he finally realized it was not going to kill him... |
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| My standardbred pees before every single feeding - that's the worse she does because she's an absolute saint. Also the fastest walking horse in the county in my opinion, she covers some ground.
The sporthorse has to have his teeth smacked while the farrier is there. He'll curl his lips back and you just smack your palm against them repeatedly and it's the only way he'll stand still. He has learned hats are fun to play with and pull off, and he'll do the zipper thing occasionally but I don't trust him to do it all the time.
He also races the first two miles of a trail ride and in another mile you can pretty much lose sight of him because he gets so dramatically tired, if you're on the mare and don't stop.
He thinks he's that 14.1 quarter horse but he's the 17 hand Freisian cross. He chases cows, cuts them, but the one he harasses the most is his pal and they'll stand next to each other across the fence.
My gelding's quirk is he cannot stand to be alone. He can have a cow, another horse, or another human next to him and he won't move. Tie him to the trailer and walk away - he's going to dig to China. He also can't stand to be corrected with much more than a NO and a light slap otherwise he pulls back. Terrified to have anything rubbed on his hocks anymore because he hates DMSO...
They're strange creatures.
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | mgander - 2018-06-19 1:24 PM
My standardbred pees before every single feeding - that's the worse she does because she's an absolute saint. Also the fastest walking horse in the county in my opinion, she covers some ground.
I know they train most racehorses to pee in their stalls, I used to work on an OTTB farm and most of them did that!
I know they train most racehorses to pee in their stalls, I used to work on an OTTB farm and most of them did that! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RnRJack - 2018-06-20 7:02 AM mgander - 2018-06-19 1:24 PM My standardbred pees before every single feeding - that's the worse she does because she's an absolute saint. Also the fastest walking horse in the county in my opinion, she covers some ground. I know they train most racehorses to pee in their stalls, I used to work on an OTTB farm and most of them did that! I know they train most racehorses to pee in their stalls, I used to work on an OTTB farm and most of them did that!
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| My friend had a horse that would pee on his hay at every feeding. So weird |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | Mines a lip smacker when he's board or nervious. |
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| My gelding likes to roll in any mud hole or pond he can find. All the danged time. I am his person I guess when he gets scared or nervous he has to touch me like put his nose on my shoulder or my back and just stand there. Then his last thing he loves to do it when he takes a drink and I am near he will drop the water out of his mouth all over me usually on my feet. If he were human he would be laughing at me just like he does when he rolls in the pond or mud hole. |
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