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Location: Phoenix | WYOTurn-n-Burn - 2013-12-19 7:52 AM One of mine laps the pen three or four times before being caught. Does it EVERYTIME!! He sees me coming and he starts his laps. I just wait for him to be done and then walk up to him and put the halter on. It peeves me.
One of my other geldings eats his lead rope. If he has to stand for any length of time I look over and the entire lead rope is in his mouth. Its gross.
My other gelding is a houdini. He can chew his way out of most knots I tie. Again...this peeves me.
My horse eats his lead rope too! I can't pinpoint why....so,etimes he does amd sometimes he does it. But he DOUBLES up the lead rope so there's kinks EVERYWHERE.
He also pins his ears when he walks up to me in the pasture. Or he runs off other horses when I come to get him. I think he's jealous amd only wants me to catch him and not anyone else. But he gets along with EVERYONE. |
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Location: Iowa/Missouri | My current gelding, when he is in the trailer and the drop down window is down likes to have one corner of his windown screen undone so that he can have his nose sticking out while going down the road. And if one side is not undone he will break it so we've just made sure to put him in the spot in the trailer that has the one corner already broken.
My old barrel horse loved animal crackers. And would like your hand every now and then. Plus he was just a handful on the ground. Had to be untied to saddle otherwise he'd pull back. Was horribly buddy sour when hauled with another horse. Bucking and carrying on at the trailer. Loved to have his bridle removed as soon as the run is over and his tiedown undone.
My old pleasure horse, as he got older and we were in the line up at the end of a class would make the biggest yawns possible........every single time. He also did not like BLUE tarps. (We had to walk across one for a trail class), Also as he got older and you were in line up at a bigger show and the people clapped he would do a little baby rear and be a butt. He also would spook at random things just cuz he knew he could get away with it in the middle of a class going down the rail. |
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 Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | We do not have enough time in one day to discuss my crew, I'll keep it short and sweet.
Tucker is my "Where's my beer?" horse
Poopie is "I can do that and still hold my beer" horse
CC...ahhh, CC, she is "Hey, hold my beer and watch this sch*tt!" . She just aint right. |
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 Porta Potty Pants
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| These are great …. mine is a "gotta smell everything" guy and "give me a cookie ….. pleeeeeze" guy. |
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| My older horse always poops in one corner no matter what the stall and pees in the middle. He also is a HUGE slob when eating grain, he has to have a stop cleaned under his feed bin clean so he can eat the grain that goes on the floor. He also can't have his water bucket in the stall when he eats because he will drop his grain in his water bucket. My mare has to pee right where her hay falls on the ground in one corner.
Edited by Kaitlyn19 2013-12-19 6:07 PM
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Location: Lone Star State | My gelding holds his front right foot up (like previous picture posted) while eating grain. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | Well I've got teeth runners (run their teeth along rails), mane rubbers, teeth grinders(my yearling), head bobbers(my 3 race track broodmares all do this), and rope chewers. ( only my yearling and my 8 month old do this) It drives me nuts and i correct them every chance I can for it hoping and praying to god it will stop. I almost have the yearling not doing it anymore. |
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Location: on my horse | Redman is completely obsessed with the stock tank heater, last winter he destroyed two floaters, two sinkers and a tank before we finally found one that fits into the bottom of the tank and sits low enough to make it hard for him to grab. That still doesn't stop him though, he will drive his whole head into the tank with water going into his ears just to grab the heater. Every winter he has little burns all over his nose and lips.
He has a jolly ball, other toys, a buddy, and an entire huge pasture to keep him busy but he still has to go for the the d*mn heater!
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Regular
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| Where do I begin! LOL. My horse always has to jiggle the bit and his top bit. Everytime I stop when exercising him. He also will untie himself if he's bored and play with the lights on the trailer (our switches are on the outside) if its hot and I have a bucket of water hanging by him, he'll splash around in it up past his ears. And he loves to drink from the hose when giving him a bath.
My mom's horse loves to play with tubs and buckets. If there's rubber feed tubs on the ground, she will flip every single one Over and stomp them inside out. Also she will back up underneath the water buckets hanging on the trailer just to be a brat. |
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 Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | Chance: He growls when we warm up. Sometimes he'll refuse to take the correct lead, spook at nothing important, or buck just because he can. He also has no ground manners for me but is a perfect gentleman for Matt. He picks on Clifford constantly but sometimes I'll catch him licking Clifford's neck so he's not always hateful. He is obsessed with my cell phone and wants to smell it every time I have it in my hands.
Clifford: When he's done eating out of a feed pan or a feed bucket, he picks it up and looks at me like "hey I want a refill." He also gets his feelings hurt easily and wants to be loved on. If I put treats in a coat pocket, for the next week anytime I wear that coat around him he licks the outside of the pocket.
Joker: Cannot be alone at the trailer or he nickers constantly and runs back and forth at the end of his lead rope. He also loves to splash in the water bucket after a run. He HAS to be the boss of the pen but I've never seen him actually kick at another horse or bite one. He pins his ears and acts like he's mean, and so far, he has all the others believing that he'll hurt them if they step out of line.
Mine all have quirks but Matt's gelding Joker is the quirkiest. If Matt is gone for a couple days, when he comes back home, Joker will give him the cold shoulder for a day. Also if you're standing near his Joker, you have to look at him or pet him or talk to him AT ALL TIMES. If you ignore him for more than a couple seconds, he'll nudge you with his nose to get attention. |
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I AM being nice
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Location: MD | I have a gelding who will stand quietly tied to the trailer all day at a barrel race, but ke literally licks the trailer for hours at a time!
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | My old horse has always liked to make noise. When I had a steel trailer, he ran his teeth across the gravel guard, and he could never stay in a metal stall because he'd kick it all night.
My paint horse lived with mules in his early years - he learned all their habits, including escaping and pushing gates down. |
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Location: Oklahoma | This is pretty funny reading all of these..
My little paint mare, Miss Amy-- holds her left front leg up when she eats and loves to have her butt scratched. She acts like she hates people- but once she finally decides she likes you-she loves attention. She is def slow to warm up to people.. some she never does. She is very picky about who gets near her.
Rusty- my daughter's retired barrel horse- opens and shuts the round pen gate. Took us forever to figure out how other horses were getting stuck in there. Then happened to see one day when another horse went in. Rusty RUNS over and shuts the gate. Mystery solved. This actually comes in handy-- He's is always the last to get done eating- and Amy will go run him off and eat his.. so we feed him in there and when he's done- he just lets himself out. he's so funny. He never paws at anything else except when its feeding time. He goes to his fence feedbucket and waits. If I am not fast enough he starts pawing, and if I am taking even longer than he thinks I should- He will come stand behind Amy and paw -just in case I don't know HE'S WAITING.
Jazz our black gelding will go walking with me. Sometimes when I walk out in the pasture- he will follow me the whole walk. Well him and the cat! Zoe.
I love watching them and figuring out what they like and who they are. Horses are such cool animals. I love mine's different personalities.
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| When I got my gelding he had trust issues, he is now completely over them with me, but only me. He is a big mommy suck, only I can catch him, he will pull back on my husband if he try's to saddle him. My new mare is a complete diva, always looking for attention, loves to shove her nose into anyone, loves to give and get kisses but the kisses are only with me. One gelding will not poop near where they eat and try's to train anyone penned with him it is not acceptable to poop where you eat. My husbands good gelding ALWAYS rolls right after eating his grain. A five year old gelding paws non-stop while eating his grain but only eating his grain. My sons mare LOVES water! Hot days if she is in the dugout pen she can be found swimming, in the other pens she's been known to not let the others drink defending her waterer, rides into any body of water without hesitation and proceeds to paw or even try to lay down in it. |
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Am I really the Weirdo?
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Location: Kansas | WrapSnap - 2013-12-19 11:27 PM I have a gelding who will stand quietly tied to the trailer all day at a barrel race, but ke literally licks the trailer for hours at a time!
My gray and Matt's mare both do this. Doesn't matter which trailer we tie them to (his is aluminum, mine is steel covered in county road dirt LOL), they lick it. Chance is a licker.......he LOVES it when I put a salt or mineral block out for them and I think the others do too cause then he stops licking them! |
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 Whack and Roll
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Location: NE Texas | I have a self mutilator. Yep....he will eat on himself if he's not getting enough stimulation. He's done it since he was a weanling and is now 3. Looked like he was chasing his tail as a baby, but now he can't get to his tail so he bites his flanks or his forearms and will kick the fence. He doesn't do it at all if he's getting worked regularly, but if he's bored, he's eating on himself. Just goes to show that an idle mind is the devil's playground....even for horses. |
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 Special Somebody
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Location: Finally horseback again.... | My mare wont let my hubby touch her. Makes him SOOOO made when she walks up to me right after he has tried to catch her. She has never been mistreated by him, but she picks who she likes. |
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 Dr. Ruth
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | WrapSnap - 2013-12-19 11:27 PM I have a gelding who will stand quietly tied to the trailer all day at a barrel race, but ke literally licks the trailer for hours at a time!
My mare does this. She is weird.
Grasshopper has the worst habits. He is a DIVA. I can guarantee that no one has as big of a DIVA as I do. It was bad before the accident but now that he knows I will do anything to save his life, it is out of control. Since everyone went on hiatus, and we brought another horse in that happens to be a gelding, he has been in a FOUL mood. As in, you can't touch him without him trying to bite you, he has lifted his leg to pretend to kick A LOT, and he will not eat unless you set his food down and walk away. He has never been this bad.
he has taken to shaking my trailer. He did it before the accident but now it is way worse. Doesn't matter which or whose trailer it is and it doesn't matter where in the trailer and it doesn't matter if there are horses in or around him or whatever. That trailer is being shook.
He is a cripple. And doesn't do anything fast anymore. And is the shortest out of all of the horses right now. And yet somehow, ALL horses bow down to him. He struts around like he lives in a kingdom and the other horses are his minions. And none of them ever do anything to him. It is ridiculous.
Also, Grasshopper LOVES his PHT blanket. LOVES it. He will stand quietly and let you put it on him (the only thing he will do that for). However, if there is a chance that you are going to take it off, he will run away, freak out, whatever, and he has destroyed it three times doing that. That poor blanket...
One other thing-chiro and acupuncture adjustments are hilarious. He knows Barbie really well and LOVES her. Will come up to her and is super nice. But he is horrible to get adjusted. We have to cover his eye. But yet, after she adjusts him, he looks at her and looks like he is going to fall over he is so relaxed. He literally sways back and forth. And won't leave her side until the needles are in him then he closes his eyes and falls asleep. It's like a habit now. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I have one that tries to buck me off each time I get on and I have one that goes through 1 - 2 leadropes every 2 weeks because she eats them. My other horses have quirks too but not near as interesting.
Edited by CYA Ranch 2013-12-20 2:14 PM
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| When I'm feeding, my 3 year old will pee as she goes to take the first bite of her grain. EVERY night and EVERY morning. She will also weave in the stall, buck while tied to the trailer, and does this very funny thing with her mouth lol
Another one of mine will pull back at the trailer unless I tie her to the back door on the stock trailer or I have to leaver her on the trailer in our 6-horse.
My 19 year old gelding will kick out if you pick up your whip and try to get him pumped up before you run. |
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