Anyone else's horse have an annoying habit?

My mare paws the ground when not being given your undivided attention. I'll tell her "no!", to which she promptly holds her leg in the air whilst tucking her nose in... proper diva tantrum... you can almost hear her screaming in temper!
 
If stabled he throws his bucket out of his stable when he is finished eating - without any regard for who he might hit, and he can throw it pretty far! Have had a lot of comments from people who assume I'm in the stable mucking out and throwing t my bucket without looking! It's quite rude of him, if he finishes his water he will also chuck it out! High maintenance!!!
 
My shetland has figured out how to undo the bolt on her door and let herself out. At first I thought I'd forgotten to lock it (no kick bolt as the door is in a corner) but she did it several days on the trot. Ate Alfie's breakfast, grazed on the yard and tucked into an unopened round of hay. I've resorted to wedging a broom under the bolt until I can get to the farm shop to buy a horseproof one.

My appy will lean over the partition and bite her just because he can... he also pulls all his rugs off the door, literally pouts if I put superskratch in his dinner and unhooks his headcollar if I leave it on the fence post. I have often found it trampled into the mud inside the gate.

Ollie gets very wobbly lipped when I brush under his forelock. If I leave brushes lying around he will literally throw them at me using his teeth. He loves a good brushing does our Ollie, lol.
 
Squealing, but I find it funny rather than annoying. If I'm riding he can be going along nicely in an outline, then he squeals and throws a leg out, then carries on as if nothing happened. I just laugh. He's also always where he isn't supposed to be; tackroom, feedroom, hay shed, the fenced of parts of the field and he pulls anything he can get his hands on down, whether is be rugs, haynets, boots or brushes hanging up, he will pull them down :D
 
Pooing in the stable (okay, that's not such a crime for a horse) - but then hiding the poos by the strategic placement of straw so it looks like you don't have much to muck out and then discover you do after all... grrrr!
 
Larry has several! He jogs when he's excited/nervous/going home. I need to be firmer with him but it's SO hard to get him to walk sometimes.

He also loves fluff! His owner has a fluffy headband for when it's cold, he likes to bite it and pull it off. He also bites the fluff on the hood of her jumper and he pulled my hat off by its bobble once which isn't pleasant when it's freezing out!

He likes to rest his head on the farriers back when he's doing his front feet, he does it if I'm brushing his front legs too sometimes. He has a pretty heavy head!
 
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My boy is stabled, so the rugs he has on for the night are just put over his door. He is absolutely fine with this throughout the day and ignores them totally.

Yet as soon as I go in to muck him out, he'll stand chewing them or knock them on the floor then come over looking very pleased with himself! Such an attention seeker!

Anyone else's horse got a really annoying habit?
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My boy will take rugs of the door
take rugs of the rack out side

solution no rugs on the door
weave grill stops him getting at the others.

he will also pull them off rug rack in his stable - solution put hooks at the top.

but he will walk through the rugs get the filltit string round his neck legs you name it. stand there for ages as he cant move. Or he walks round till the rug is twisted so many times it looks like a cork screw.
I have to remember to un do the fillet strings.

He is a git - He does it on purpose NEVER panics will just do it for attention. Just like his mum used to paw the fence and put her legs through the wire . I got her out once got home and got call from yard saying she is in it again..

I know i will get shot for this oh why you do it take rugs out. This is how my rugs have been since we moved . NO livery or my horses have NEVER had injury . My boy is like a squirel always finds away to get trapped, caught in rugs I come out sometimes an hour after . He is standing calm etc . Almost looking at me saying if you get me out i will go in again lol
 
My girls a cribber and everything goes in her mouth! Some things like whips she just starts waving about :rolleyes:. She loves to pull rugs down, paw at them and stand on them, so i just try not to leave her in reach of any rugs or anything else for that matter :o.

Has a wonderful knack for undoing knots when tied up, opening stable doors and tipping up wheelbarrows - especially when they are at least half full :mad:.

Also she has a very infuriating habit of when riding, stopping dead when a horse is beside her and with our last hack doing the same when she had had enough of being in front, then calmly and slowly backing up :mad:. There is little that can be done other than send the accompanying people ahead when she stubbornly stops like this, you can have a fricking party on her back and she will not go forward! Made harder at the moment as i cant trot her (used to make her briskly trot as soon as i felt her slowing down to stop), so i'm going to have to try a different tactic for the moment :confused::(.

Polo on the other hand despises stopping for very long at all when hacking, and the time he allows before throwing a paddy gets shorter the more times you have to stop him :rolleyes:.

He also loves to get muddy and hates being groomed when hes extra dirty, so will go like a giraffe when trying to clean his head and generally fidget like no tomorrow, idiot horse :rolleyes::o.
 
I've noticed mine licking the farrier's back! eww :)
He jogs all the time. Bad habit I know. He will walk though. Oh and he tosses his head around when I'm putting his turnout on in the mornings.
He's developed this habit of undoing his top door and swinging it, (whilst I'm in stable and he's tied up outside) then hiding behind it! It's so funny to watch; as soon as it's put back he's at it again. Must love hide and seek!
 
My little mare has a habit of falling asleep flat out in both her field(especially in summer) and stable. Although very cute it does leave all her bedding etc. flattened and much harder to clean. Some people find it quite alarming and many people have come to me to check that she is alive.

Also when the farrier starts doing her front feet, she always without fail leans back on her hind legs and stretches like a dog/cat just got up from a sleep.

Our other mare can get under any electric fence if she wants to. She is 13'2 and somehow manages to gallop flat out under a 2ft high electric fence!!! :eek:

Love them both though:)
 
When I'm bringing in I leave the night rug on the door ready for when we get down from the field, Nadia HAS to push it over the door and into her stable and then on occasion when I open the door to pick it up she trys to go in.
 
Putting her foot in her dinner, and then knocking it over and hoovering it off the floor.
When she's nervous she will walk on her toes (easiest way to explain it), and she looks crippled... the amount of evil looks I get from people who think she is crippled! :(:p:cool:
 
oh dear where do i start! he wont leave rugs or anything alone in his stable -everything gets dragged in and stomped into the pee . if he can reach anything over the door he will chew it . you have to put clips on all the stable doors or he will let himself out and then let everything else out -even does kickovers! he rolls at least 10 times a day in the stable and last week luckily the pipes were all frozen cos he kicked the drinker clean off the wall and he would have been swimming :rolleyes: if hes had enough of being turned out he flings himself at the gates until they give way or he attracts everyones attention. but hes growing old disgracefully and i adore him:D
 
My highland is very annoying. Anything is worth a chew, have to bring him in to poo pick as will climb into my wheelbarrow, hes unflappable (which is good in some sense) but when you need him to "shoo" he doesnt, , he is very comical tho.
 
For anyone using a rug rack .

I have found this gr8 way of


A. stopping the wind blowing rugs off and around the yard
and
B. Horses cant pull them off:D

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Horse I ride at my stables is absolutely obsessed with barrels and cones - she won't go past them or in and out of them without playing football with them - and there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop her!
Another horse I ride - well when you pick his feet out he always turns out and very gently chews you in the bottom (putting it politely)
 
My gelding wipes his slobbery mouth all over me after I dismount, it's really gross! It's my fault really though, he's always done it and I've never corrected him. I guess I didn't want to punish him after he gives me a nice ride .... Or logic along those lines!
 
One of mine likes to destroy buckets. She manoeuvres them so they are between her back legs and rolls them around til they are flattened!!!! She even destroys those really think black rubber shallow buckets. I think she sees them as a personal challenge!!!
 
Pooing in his automatic waterer!

We also have to clean up poos AS SOON as they hit the ground, so he likes to wait until I'm leading him out to the mounting block, do a massive poo on the yard and get to go back in his stable for more quality hay-stuffing-into-face time while I clean it up...
 
Bud pretends he's a camel. Well looks like one. When I pull up in the morning he comes and puts his head over the door, gives a little nicker (im under no illusion it's for me, breakfast comes first!) and then turns his head completely sideways and stretches his nose right out and doesn't turn it right until he has breakfast. Weirdly he only does it with me and my sister? I hate it but he's always done it. Oh and he has a thing about licking, including the girls faces when they give him a cuddle over the door. It's disgusting and gross! I don't mind my hand and jumper but my face is a no go for a slobbery tongue thank you!
 
I think all our horses each having at least one annoying habit.

Chewing things, opening gates, getting flyveils/rugs off, ripping rugs, being stress head about nothing, not standing still, hard to worm, rearing, bucking are just a few of the various quirks - not all the same horse thank goodness.
 
Mine likes to undo zips and chew buckles on wellies and grab toggles, steals hats - not woolly ones, they are boring, the fluffier the better. Feed bowls get thrown out of the stable. Grabs the back of my jeans when I'm bent over. Helps me muck out, like having a toddler helping. Empties skips and barrows. Brings himself in from the field if not brought in first. Runs over to see me if I'm walking through field but runs off when I go to get him in ( now weathers better ). Waits for the exact moment I am putting the electric fence bungee back on to spook and spin, he has the timing perfect no matter how still he is standing.
 
Yep!

He throws the first few mouthfuls of food out of his manger into his bed and if I'm not quick enough getting away over me (not the expensive cortaflex I cry!)

He likes to dig for England if he is left too long between feeding and turning out in the morning - n=hence bed like a pigsty! I often call him "gone in 60 seconds" as he does a poo and within that time frame he has managed to cover it and mangle into bed!

Always has to have a wee and a poo as soon as he comes in from the field - it's like he saves it up especially :o

Is VERY vocal which actually I love as you could never leave him unattended as he lets you know he is waiting - really makes me laugh :D

Love him to bits though <3
 
Mine always stands at the very end of her rope when you tie her up, has always done it and if i move her forward she edges back again.
She gives you a hefty nudge when she wants attention too- forgets how much bigger and stronger she is. She sent my OH flying the other week, it's almost funny on unsuspecting people.
She is a typical grumpy girl but i don't mind although some of the ears back, head flicking is annoying. Only other thing is she has started to almost piaffe when her dinner is coming so we are working on that now, silly girl.
Oh and has to follow the corn broom around her stable when i'm skipping her out therefore it takes twice as long as every time i sweep she moves and kicks her bedding. My fault though i know she wants to eat it but i just love the look on her face as we don't see her softer side too often!
 
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