Does your horse have its own little habits?

Mine has this clever way of swirling her water with her nose so that the hay she has dropped in it goes to the outside of the bucket and she has a clear area to drink from!
 
I thought of another one for my one, I fill up his haybar and no matter how much I stuff it full, he will tip half of it out into his bed and eat the bottom half and then forget about the top half and use it as a bed. Drives me mad, he wastes so much, but I cant give him haynets as he rubs himself on them and rips his rugs after he attachs himself to them.
 
When tied up, he'll scratch his hinds on the ledge of the wall. When lungeing, he always has a tantrum, head between legs, squealing, bucking, galloping loony before settling down. The YO came to check I was ok one day because he was so noisy! He's such a well behaved boy normally, he just likes to let off steam!

In the field, he likes to make me walk halfway, then if I turn round as if to leave, he panics and gallops after me, always screeches to a halt a few feet away then herds me up the field.

Deltaflyer said:
When I'm leading him to or from the field he has to investigate every dropping he spots along the way.
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Oh yes, mine and his best mate coming in together, total trauma, I'm going to lend them out to Customs at Heathrow as sniffer horses! Every single poo must be thoroughly analysed!
 
Kezzabell2 said:
Oh yours is stunning too! I have no idea how you keep him clean though? its hard enough with a bay!

Sam gets called Samuel if he's being naughty! but I do tend to call him Sammy when I'm calling him from the field! it just seems easier to shout haha!

Sam registered name is really weird because his breeders named all of their babies after 70's songs, the year he was born! Well 4 months before I bought him my Nan died, and T-rex were her favourite band, she had one of their songs played at her funeral. I'd never heard of them before that! and then it wasn't until I went to pick Sam up that the breeder said he was named after this song! so I sort of felt it was fate that I got him! My Nan must have sent him my way :)
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My first horse's BSJA name was a track from the 70s called Soundchaser which really suited her as she was a whizzy little thing, almost unbeatable in a jump off :)

Sam seems to have one of those coats that doesn't stain too badly I do groom him a lot too as I always vowed that if I ever had a grey I'd keep it as clean as humanly possible without actually bathing it every five minutes. In that pic if you could see his back end you wouldn't be admiring his cleanliness as he'd got a little excited in the ring and his entire bum and tail had a coating of watery poo - bless him LOL
 
Our mare does a huge cat stretch as soon as you go in to change her rug to be put out. May be deliberate to help, I'm not sure. She sometimes does it when you've brought her in and go to change rugs but only if no feed about.
Front legs right out, left first then right, then lowers herself right down so her tummy almost touches the ground. I usually manage to time unclipping her rug so it's easy peasy to take off at just the right height (she is about 16.3)
 
My mare will always, without fail, roll when I put her out.

When shes in and I top her water up she always drinks from the first bucket of water I bring in to top hers up, even when hers is practically full.

She also manages to rip all her rugs in the exact same spot. Its a skill :p
 
My horse Willow always poops then has a long drink right after I untack him from a ride. When I open my grooming bag he will nosey around in there and pick out a brush then sweep the floor of his stable with it!
 
I was chatting to my husband about Flynn's habits the other day, and realised he's actually a little bit of an odd ball!
If you muck out with him in the stable he will want to stand exactly where you need to poopick! If you put him outside while you muck out he will have a wee as soon as you put him in the stable.
If you turn him out in the school he will roll straight away.
He has a door chain across his doorway for when he's in and I'm around, he will slam his door against the wall to get your attention.
If you give him a treat he must lick something for atleast 5 minutes with the back of his tongue.
Take his head collar off to put on his bridle he will yawn constantly and shake his head up and down.
He can time tail whips to perfection to get you in the face as you walk past.
He gets his willy out when he knows it's food time, or when you're doing up his belly straps - dirty ******!!
 
At the yard there is also a pony who loves zips - she will find your coat zip and run it up and down manically.
She will also put her nose band of her headcollar in her mouth when your trying to put it on.
Another gives kisses for treats and then raises her front leg for another.
We also have a pony who squeals and does a mini bucking broncho in his stable when it's food/net time.
 
Peggy picks up her feed bucket when she has had her breakfast and flings it out of her stable, almost as if to say "More where that came from please!" yet she never does it with her evening feed (Too tired I reckon, she's been recharging her batteries all night in her stable after all haha!)

Does at least poo in the school every time we go in there. Will twice and wee once on every hack we go on (Generally in the same spots too).

Undoes her lead rope when standing outside her stable yet doesn't actually walk off anywhere lol.

If I don't pull the bolt on her stable door across and there is hay/food inside, she'll nudge the door open with her nose and position herself so she can see said item of food and will look at me in a pitiful way as if I am depriving her if she happens to see me.

I could go on lol :D
 
If you do a good job of scratching a particularly itchy spot, B will wrap his head and neck around you and give you a hug. (He'll do it if he's just feeling snuggly, too, bless him.)

In the morning, he really does NOT want to wee until he's been turned out, even if he's desperate enough to have everything hanging out and be kicking at his belly. (I was worried sick he was colicking the first time he did that!) Work him for half an hour or so and he'll eventually give in.

I did some carrot stretches with him a few weeks ago and now, if he wants a treat, he stretches! At least it's better than him trying to shove his nose in your pocket.
 
If you get Buffy in a good itchy spot and put the other hand infront of her mouth she will "groom" your hand with her top lip! But she has never ever got her teeth out, she just knows that teeth on human = bad. However, she will nudge your b**b with her top lip if she is impatient, but she is gentle!

My OH taught her to sniff out treats! So you put a treat in one hand and then turn both hands into a fist, and put them infront of her and she then pokes the hand with the treat in it with her lip!!

She always waits to come into her stable for a wee, hates weeing in a field!

She dunks her hay into her water bucket. (YUMMY!)

If she is bored she has been known to stomp up to a water bucket, stick her face in it and blow bubbles!

She *loves* her forelock being brushed.

When I bridle her she lowers her head, then tilts her head for me so I can do up her drop noseband easier. Same when I put her headcollar on, because she is tall and I am sadly lacking in the height department, I put one ear in the headcollar, then she turns her head so that I can put the other ear in, then she turns her head again so I can do up the clip under her chin.

Terrified of leaves. Autumn is a bad time for us. (She is nearly 15 years old!!)
 
Mine poos in a neat semi circle around the stable so she doesn't lie in it but there is always one rogue poo on top of the (considereable) hay she has dropped so I can't reuse it - she's so picky!
 
i've a stable hanger on the wall next to my stable and if she's not tied short enough, she'll grab hold of it and fling it quite a distance behind her. She can also undo her lead rope when tied up. oh, and she'll eat her bucket feed from the bottom up.
 
My mare too loves her face and forelock being brushed & she adores a good scratch to the point, that she positions herself so you can scratch exactly the right spot, she enjoys a 10min all over scratch everynight! last night as I was bedding down, she managed to reverse herself thru her stable door so I could give her bum a scratch, clever considering she was tied up..the equivalent of a horsey 5 point turn :-) She too is a saint to catch, handle, helping my OH out with Head collars & gates.
 
The first bite of his feed is always a furious one where he takes an exaggerated mouthfull and flicks it across the field. He's mardy when it comes to feeding so I guess it's just him being his usual self, can't see any other reason why he'd waste food :')
 
If I talk to anyone else while Im holding his lead rope, mine gives me a nip! He doesn't like anyone else getting the attention and he gets impatient.

When I tell him off for nipping, he puts his tongue between his teeth and bites his own tongue. Go figure.

Recognises my van arriving, watches me drive up the drive, and then when he sees me on foot coming towards him he has a pee in the field before I get there to take him out for work.

Nudges me with his nose until I give him a sip of my coffee out of my hand!

HAS to be doing something with his mouth at all times. Such a baby!
 
Snuffles through his feed to find the cubes if they aren't at the top
Nap time is around 2pm (daily and for the last 5 yrs plus)
New rugs are sniffed suspiciously along with those that have been cleaned and they are 'questioned'
Always has a roll when sweaty after work
If going on the trailer on his own or first will only ever load at the 2nd attempt, if travelling with a mate and 2nd on will self load if you don't watch him while doing the back bar
Likes a grassy snack just before the last canter track home and canters along grass in mouth
Snuffles my dad's left pocket the moment he sees him for mints
 
My mare still likes to mouth things (despite being 23 years old!). She loves to chew her leadrope and if you present the back of your hand for her to sniff she will very gently take hold of it with her big, soft wibbly lips and gently suck on your hand. Funny old thing.

My little old mare is a roller. She rolls before food, after food and whenever she doesn't have anything else to do.

Middle mare has trained us to scratch her itchy bits. She lets it be known that she has an itch by furiously biting at the coat on her chest. If we stop scratching she starts following us around doing the bitey thing until we scratch her again!
 
I always have a cough and my friends were laughing at me today because my young cob recognises me by my cough. I turn up at the yard and before he can see me if he hears me cough he whinnies. I was just getting his stuff together before I went out to him and my friend was cracking up because it went cough, whinny , cough , whinny.
 
Arion, my chestnut WB gelding has a thing for velcro. He will pull all the velcro straps off my boots and then look at me as if waiting for me to do them up again so he can pull them off again. He will also lean out of his stable and grab his headcollar and shake it with his mouth at whoever is nearby as if to ask to be taken out, and he does the chucking of the feed bucket out of the stable at anyone nearby also, as if to say "fill this up again" lol

My 4 year old flings his head into his headcollar as soon as he sees, like actually seems to rush forward and dive his head into it, which does cause a bit of bother if you are not quite ready for it.
 
I have a little Welsh a who will always roll while eating her feed with her head in the bucket and will always roll on her hay when its first put out...
 
My mare always pees as soon as you put her back in her clean stable.
Whickers when she sees me arriving at the yard and every time I look at her from where I'm filling hay nets, whinnies loudly when being turned out in field.
Very often stretches out her back legs and groans when being led out in the morning.
Drinks then drops water over me.
Plays with brushes and other mucking out tools whilst tied up.
 
Flicka drinks from the water trough the other side of the fence rather than the one in her field.

Benji lifts his hind leg like a dog cocking a leg for a wee so you can scratch him right in between his legs.
 
Bob the notacob ,does not like me undoing the front of his rug and threatens me with his teeth ,the way he does his field mates .Unfortunately I treat him the way they do and ignore him . He never actually bites . its all show. I think they let him be herd boss just because he is a nice guy and fair. He has a ticklish spot around his front legs and will take the brush out of my hand and throw it out the door. Also when tacking up. The moment i pick up the saddle he marches over to the door and stands to attention for it to be fitted . Once saddled he will not leave his post,even for food. Bless him!
 
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