Fab hack tonight and my boy loves Donkeys

[Pidge]

Well we have a donkey show at Rod this weekend so there are donkeys everywhere. All the horses have been going nuts with the donkeys in the spare stables and terrible when they bray

However took Pidge over to see them as he was fascinated and he has been golden

not stressed by them whatsoever, whereas Sunny has done a million poos and a million circuits of the box and was very hyper indeed

Helped sis tack up a hyper Sunny and then did Pidge and went for a lovely hack.
So a much better day today and I'm very proud to have a horse that is not bothered with donkeys at all

So seeing as he is in the minority does anyone else's horse not mind donkeys?

 

[kirstyhen]

Hen has never encountered them, so I have no clue! Although sheep scare the living daylights out of him, so I can imagine him being disturbed by donkeys!
He is very sensitive to noise too, so their brays would send him skywards me thinks! He hates the noise that the chicken make, difficult when we have to hack past a free range chicken farm, with hundreds of the dam things!

 

[hadfos]

To be honest i really dont know,lol..be interesting to find out

,he is well fascinated by shetlands though,we hacked past some not soo long back and their little whinny nearly made him jump out his skin,think he thought they were dogs till they opened their mouths

 

[only_me]

merlin loves donkeys - he has made friends with some up the road from us!

he gets very cross if we do not go and visit them when we go hacking

he throws a major strop and tries to nap back to them!

 

[Pidge]

If he doesn't like sheep I don't think he'll like the donkeys especially when they start braying......... Ooh you're hacking sounds entertaining

TBH I don't think Pidge had seen any before as last night after lesson he grew to about 18 hands

he had a good look when they set off braying but then just settled and ate his haylage

some of the horses have just been done in the field to avoid coming into the stable block

 

[Pidge]

Pidge loves shetlands too, think it's their size he finds fascinating as he goes all ga ga

 

[kirstyhen]

Ooooh I just remembered Hen has met Donkeys!! Richard Ashcroft's (of The Verve fame!) Donkeys live in the field next door to his summer grazing!! So not only has he met Donkeys, he's met famous (by proxy!) ones!!

He didn't seem bothered by them, although I didn't see him when they first appeared or made a noise!
YM said every year at least one of her horses falls in love with the donkeys!

Hacking round us is VERY interesting, apart from the chickens, we've met a deer head on and been attacked by a badger, and foxes regularly watch me do my canter work!!

 

[Pidge]

brill another horse who loves donkeys - Pidge was trying to say hello to one of them and snuffling his back and the donkey was so not impressed, poor Pidge

LOL at the thought of Merlin throwing a strop at not being allowed to say hello to the donkeys

 

[Pidge]

Ooh famous donkeys

extra brownie points for the flying cow then

eep attacked by a badger sounds grim what happened?

 

[kirstyhen]

We have a lovely big hilly field to gallop in, was just walking round, warming up, when I noticed a badger (at 4pm!!) snuffling around. Was far enough away to think we'd be ok to sneak past, but when we got level the bl00dy thing turned and ran at Hens ankles growling!!

It didn't make contact, but it scared the cr@p out of poor pony!!
Hen would have sent it skywards at a rate of knots if it had bitten him though, he doesn't cope well with small animals around his feet!!!

 

[Pidge]

I'm not surprised it scared the cr*p out of him it would have done to me and Pidge too

 

[pairciban]

My dad has two donkeys a mare and a stallion as well as his horses non of them bother about each other.
He has a row of 4 stables, horse - mare donkey - empty - stallion donkey, so guess where my pony lived when on holiday there. When the pair of them started my boys face said it all WTF!!!!!

Just had to laugh at him it was so funny.

 

[Donkeymad]

That'll be the Donkey Breed Society Championship Show, so donks for two days.

Our cob loves donks, he has no choice with four here! Strangely, one of my donks seems scared of horses, although she loves ours!!