are your horses destructive?

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just wondering who else has a destructive horse might make me feel better ive gone through three head collars in the last month he enjoys destroying tackboxes etc but when he is in his stable he is perfectly happy tie him outside and he runs everything
 
We had a welsh d and the blue roan in my sig. One day they were seen dismantling a 30m piece of fence we'd put up to seperate the hens from the horses, the 'd' pushed the wire down with his feet and the roan pulled the stakes out with her teeth. I wished i'd filmed it!
 
Scooby is very destructive, but he doesn't mean to be!
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He's got sweet itch at the moment, and he keeps scratching his bum against anything and everything - the fence in the school is cracked and splintered, he nearly broke the fence in the field as well, and I'm told at his last home he demolished an entire stable, knocked the wall clean out.
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Here's hoping he'll be much less itchy once we get him fitter and leaner!

He's also a bit clumsy with his feet, which is not good because they are like dinner plates. He trod on my toe last night... it's broken.
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broken toe, oh noo!
i used to have an 18.3hh horse, stayed with us for 4 years, and in that time he has broken 4 wooden fences, jumps, buckets, stables, bridles and he broke a 5 bar wooden gate just by leaning over it! + various other bits of equipment....
he chewed up our fields charging around with his dinner plate hooves
he's gone to a lovely new owner now, but i still miss him
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Yep I have one of those. The list of items that have been broken is too long to mention, but I'll share the best one with you....

I got politely asked to leave a private yard after my ned let himself out of his field, let himself into the sand school and proceeded to pulled off the cabling that was tacked onto the sand school fence, chewed through it and cut off the power to the house and the yard! how he didn't go up in a puff of ginger smoke I dont know.
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Yes Mr Mackenzie decided to rip a stable door off on Saturday, trying to get to some mares an foals that where being collected and going back to there stud.

Nothing unsual, just Mackenzie being Mackenzie.
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My last horse was, he didn't mean to be but he just found himself getting into trouble a lot! He wasn't known as "The Toddler" for nothing. He smashed my trailer up quite frequently when learning how to travel (I have never seen a horse so un-natural with travelling!!), which included bending several breast bars and gauging pieces out of the outside of the trailer and numerous smashed lights... He also bit a chunk of paint out of our 4x4's bonnet!! He bent stable doors, damaged fencing by jumping over it (but never quite high enough...), chewed through any cables AND he even chewed my other horses £750 saddle which Id left on a gate for all of 5 mins!! The marks are still there
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I thought when I sold him Id have such a quiet life and I do
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Its boring and the yard still feels so empty without him!

My current horse is the most polite horse on the planet. He never damages rugs, chews anything etc.
 
To perhaps unparalleled levels. He was eating headcollars at more than one a month when I first got him - leadropes only lasted days, haynets lasted days (he even ate the metal rings). He's gone through 2x 100g stable rugs, 6x fleeces, 2x cotton sheets, 1x 200g t/o rug.

This is what he did with a brand new on (less than 12 hours before) cotton sheet:

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Yep mine destroys anything she can get hold of lol!

Opens shavings bales, chew up headcollares/leadropes pulls haybales down, detsroys schooling and lunge whips.

If I leave anything within reach she destroys it. Not maliciously, just nosy and playing!
 
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To perhaps unparalleled levels. He was eating headcollars at more than one a month when I first got him - leadropes only lasted days, haynets lasted days (he even ate the metal rings). He's gone through 2x 100g stable rugs, 6x fleeces, 2x cotton sheets, 1x 200g t/o rug.

This is what he did with a brand new on (less than 12 hours before) cotton sheet:

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WOW I thought my pony liked to trash rugs
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nothing compared to that. How on earth did he manage that?!

My horse is a complete and utter child, if there is something within his reach (or even something that isn't but he wants) he will have it no matter what, it must be chewed and thrown around! Whilst at my uni yard he made a habit of destroying the fencing and stopping the horse walker
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Lol Mine stole my handbag from outside the stable. Emptied it out, then trashed the contents. Purse opened - coins all thro the bed, teeth marks in the leather, work pass bitten, cigarettes squashed - mobile phone stood on & screen cracked. Cost me a fortune to replace. He also lifts his head collar in his mouth & throws when he wants out & the same with his bucket when he wants fed. Have learnt to leave NOTHING within reach.

Oh and once I left a rug in his stable - he trashed it then peed on it. I swear I can see him laughing
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Cost me a fortune to replace. He also lifts his head collar in his mouth & throws when he wants out & the same with his bucket when he wants fed.

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I had to learn the hard way with the buckets, I would be stood outside his stable talking and out would fly a bucket straight into my head!
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He had a massive massive tub for his hay, thankfully he didn't manage to get that over the door although not through lack of trying. Our head collar hooks were right next to the door and he would often take it and mess with it when he wanted to go out. My friend in the next stable used to leave her hat on the peg and her horse would chuck that around
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only the trailer, apparently the rubber trimming that ifor use is extra scrummy. All gone round the lights now and we have to keep duck taping the trim round the grooms door on the inside (and yes she does have a haynet!!)
 
YES
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He takes electic fencing out in one clean sweep, breaks wooden fences all the time
Chews big chunks out of the fences, gates and stable door ( a trick which he has happily taught his field buddies
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He wrecks rugs and costs me a fortune in repair bills,
And his best to date was to rip his stable door clean of it's hinges
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I do love him
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Yep.
Mine has ripped off his anti-cast strips in his stable, rubbed so hard the wall has moved (wooden stables that are just bolted into the ground), he has in the past rubbed so hard he's knocked down a breezeblock interior wall, lead-ropes don't last (tip- we now tie him up with a chain), he rips rugs now and then (tho nothing like as bad as the one pictured!) and likes to chew anything he can get his mouth on.
It just gives him character
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I always thought mine was as his ruges were always getting destroyed....until last winter when the herd was split into two for the winter and his mate was in the other group. I was upset at the thought of him losing his only friend at first (they're both bottom of the pile) until I realised his rug wasn't getting trashed at least once a week! It was his friend that was doing the trashing not him, he was merely a victim (or maybe accomplice?). One rug lasted him all winter after previously lasting about 4 days before needing fixing! Needless to say I don't care about him losing his friend any more! He coped and my pocket coped a lot better!

He does manage to turn his stable light on EVERY night. YO keeps saying she'll have to charge me more for all the electricity he wastes!
 
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