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Seriously i think Hovis has lost the plot.
Ok so i've not ridden him for 2 weeks as i've been away and had an operation on my leg but he has been worked by other people.
Whilst I was away he's apparently taken to self exercising and hooning about his field like a total prat. He doesn't seem to want to go out in the morning (i mean you damn near have to drag him) and is coming in like an exocet. He is staring across the stubble field next to his field all the time snorting like poof the magic dragon at something i can't see (and apparently neither can any other horse).
This morning I lunged him and he went well apart from avoiding the side of the school that the stubble field is on so after we'd finished i took him in hand into the field (we ride across it all the time and to everyones knowledge nothing has changed). Cue leaping about, rooting to the spot and refusing to move then calmly eating grass. All in the space of two strides. Then repeat the above.
I just don't know what got into him. I'm going to get back on him tomorrow (after taping my leg up so the wound doesn't reopen AGAIN) and see how he feels but he is wound up tighter than a drum. He's also spending time at the gate and not eating in the field so something is bothering him. They're due to move field shortly which i'm hoping will help but he's been in that field loads of times before and nothing like this has occured. Do you think he's started seeing dead people? :S
 
I think he might have been on acid and he's now at the hallucinating stage.

Theres no hope for him I'm afraid, he probably leave you shortly, grow his hair and start campaigning outside St Pauls Cathedral or the local illegal gypsy site!
 
Now that he is a Literary Star, he can't possibly cope with being out in a field, my goodness he might damage himself! He is telling you that he needs to be inside at all times, with a solarium and special shoes and bling, and minions, like what those dressagey and racey and other highly expensive horsies get.
 
Well, we try harder:p

Wierd for him to get a thing about a stubble field though... wonder if they might have sprayed it with something smelly?
 
Ok sensible suggestion, might something unusual have happened in the field which has worried him? Some of the horses round us get a bit like this if a hot air balloon comes down nearby. Or could it be fireworks that have upset him? Some one shooting rabbits? We had people come into the fields shooting rabbits without permission and the horses were on edge for a while.

Or maybe it is aliens..... have you checked for crop circles?
 
Is there a shoot around you? If the beaters have been through with the dogs waving flags they then stare across the fields.
Or could be a ghost, I had to ask one to remove itself from the corner of the ménage the other day as they were scarying the horses. (an animal communicator said they were there)
 
One of the horses here was very similar -the others were all as normal. We eventually found, and then removed, a very dead badger. Problem solved. I didn't blame him; it stank to high heaven!
 
We had an escaped pig wandering around near our yard overnight once. All teh horses were really wound up and it took a couple of days for mine to calm down in his field - he kept staring at a particular point in teh hedge - from teh tracks that was hte way teh pig had arrived. Sounds like something has spooked him.

Alternatively my lad turned into an exocet missile to bring in last winter when he had no grass and knew there was a haynet inside - he couldn't wait to get inside and have hay (this is after he'd finished the hay I put out for him).
 
benson was like this for a while when we went out hacking, just past a certain place. there was no way i could get him to go past, found out later there was a dead fox in the undergrowth.
 
Its so unlike him to be this unsettled. I've scoured the field and can't find a thing.
Dino (aka Hot Stepper) is right next to him and he's not turning a hair at anything and yet usually wets himself if a pigeon passes wind in Paris.
He's got enough grass, has company, nothing has changed feed wise or anything else.
Hes just very unhappy about something out there. He'll usually follow me to the end of the earth but today in the stubble field in hand he was just planting and refusing to move.
Its got me totally baffled.
 
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