COLOURED COB PHOBIA!!!

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I recentley purchased a chestnut mare and she was turned out for the first time the other day, she is a throughbred and is full of her own self importance! She thinks she is a stunner!! She is turned out with one other and its a big hairy coloured cob that thinks all the mares love him so he was slightly upset when my mare looked at him in disgust. She was not impressed with his long flowing mane and tail and big feathery feet. This was a suprise to him as he thought he was gods gift to the mares but this mare was not having any of it! Every time he went near her she kept spooking at him!! he went flying up the field in extended trot and looked very impressive (well she dint think so.) She dint know wether to trot after him. they did settle down after lots of squealing, nobody got kicked they were just noisy. She is still not sold on him, not yet but hes working on it!!!!

Has anybody had a horse that has been scared of a coloured cob, or any type of horse in fact. I thought it was funny, i did not think that they would be scared of different coloured horses!!
 
Maybe not so much scared, as both too full of them to acknowledge the other's gorgeous looks and movement?

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My friends stallion used to get randy when we rode past coloured cows lol!, He only ever got to cover one horse and it was a skewbald! That memory stuck with him for a long time bless him lol!
 
My coloured home bred had only ever lived in a herd of coloured horses and was hacked alone.
I took him to group lessons at Solihull RC.
He was petrified at the plain horses, fortunately a coloured joined the group and nannied him out the corner. It was a few weeks before he was happy to work with them.
 
My friends TB mare nearly had a heart attack the first time she saw my coloured mare - friend thinks it because she had only ever seen black and white cows before!! Took a while for her tiny TB brain to get used to it but she got there in the end - they ended up being stabled next to each other and turned out together and stupid TB used to have a tantrum if my cob was moved! Now 7/8 years on stupid TB still has the occaisional 'moment' when she sees my mare as they are in different fields now! My mare treats the TB with all the contempt that a cob can manage.....!
 
my old chestnut mare never did get over a phobia of coloured horses. She was a hunting mare and would whip round and snort at them!! Each to their own preferences i suppose. Yours been turned out with one can only help!!.
 
When I first got Mazzie home after I bought her she went into her stable and looked at the horse next door as if to say 'what ARE you?!'... He's a lovely coloured hairy cob!
 
My old instructor moved her lovely little mare to her OH's farm, where they bred Shetlands, and her poor mare nearly had heart failure when she saw the Shetlands ! She couldnt figure out what on earth they were !
 
My Sec D is fascinated by coloured ponies - cant work them out at all ! He was chased by a herd of cows when he was little and I think its mentally scarred him
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I bought a donkey last summer as a companion for my youngster, it was hilarious when I first put them all out together! The Boss (my Andalusian) pranced and boinged his way over to have a look at the latest infidel to invade his patch. Tried to give him what for and show him whose the king only to get what for back from the donkey. Had a very surprised "boss". They all crap**d themselves when they heard him braying for the first time. Good fun!
 
Its funny you should say that because ever since I got him, these little pathways have appeared round my two paddocks and a couple of people have told me they've seen my three nags all following Joseph Donkey round the field in single file. I only managed to catch them once whilst drivjng down the road to the farm. It was very funny to watch! The "boss" incidentally was bringing up the rear?????? Bless em!
 
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My friends stallion used to get randy when we rode past coloured cows lol!, He only ever got to cover one horse and it was a skewbald! That memory stuck with him for a long time bless him lol!

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That is really quite funny bless him
 
My ex racer was petrified of coloureds when I first brought him off the track, we also had cows at the time and some of them were coloured, he was fine with plain cows and we used to laugh that he must have thought the coloured horses were cows and that they definitely should not be being ridden with him. He did eventually get used to them.
 
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