Re: Survey:Horse Habits/Idiosyncrasies

["Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@cruzio.com>]

Our son-in-law's horse, who boards with us, picks up the hanging metal hay
manger with his teeth and lets it go, creating a very satisfying "bang" on
the pipe fencing.  He does this 5-6 times, to let me know that "it is time
for my hay, and hurry up about it."  My gelding, runs his teeth back and
forth across the metal stripping I nailed on a wooden feed bunk.  The
stripping is there to prevent him from chewing the bunk to bits, so he
presses the biting surface of his upper incisors onto the stripping and rubs
his teeth back and forth.  It, too, is a "hurry up and feed me" message.

Barbara McCrary





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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 10:01 AM
Subject: RC: Survey:Horse Habits/Idiosyncrasies


> Genie Stewart-Spears geniess@accessus.net
> Does your horse have an out-of-the-ordinary habit or idiosyncrasy? I'm not
> necessarily looking for neurotic behavior, but things that horses do that
> makes them happy.  (For instance: A mare that appears to be having great
> difficulty getting up after a roll is actually scratching her belly by
> rocking back and forth on the ground.)
> Please give the breed, age, and sex of the horse you are reporting about.
> Reply directly to geniess@accessus.net
> Thank you!
>
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