Foal habits - do they grow out of them?

[Evil_Cookie]

Well I was wondering if your horses have any strange habits or still do things they've done since they were a foal?
The little one, who's now 10 months and getting bigger everyday

has a few strange things...

He's very submissive so pee's when he meets new horses...
He still mouths at anything that moves (when do they normally grow out of this?)
He rolls in his feed bowl, or any other horse that happens to be being fed... I remember the first time he did this he rolled in his mom's feed bucket and it flipped all its contents over his back, scared him to death... she was licking the beat pulp off his back for hours.... the look on his face

priceless. We always use rubber bowls in the fields now, though left the plastic one unattended for two minuites the other day... Now have a nice pancake shaped bucket.

I've never owned a horse from a foal before, and really niether of the other two have any habits... so was wondering will these things go or are they just him?

 

[Tempi]

sounds like typical baby behaviour if you ask me.

Archie still does things like that tho, his favourites are:

sniffing your hair and getting hold of it (then he wont let go and it hurts!)
digging big holes in the field and rolling in them
getting hold of anything he can in his teeth and slinging it around the place
and he has to sniff EVERYTHING - wierd horse

 

[Tia]

I've noticed that they tend to stop mouthing at about 18 - 24 months, although depending on how far up the herd social status they are, they may stop doing this earlier.

Rolling with head in buckets....well my little 14 year old mare still does this!

 

[zizz]

zirrus is 12 and still fetches sticks all thanks to the alsation he played with as a youngster

 

[Helen010382]

Sorry to say this but our mare, who is 15+, still does all of these things!!!

 

[Evil_Cookie]

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zirrus is 12 and still fetches sticks all thanks to the alsation he played with as a youngster

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That must be quite a sight

He is submissive so I guess a lot of it has to do with that... but the buckets... oh dear... he's going to kill a lot of buckets in his lifetime

 

[eventrider23]

My boy was 2 last weekend and has now pretty much grown out of the mouthing at other horses. He only tends to do it towards older horses he has known since he was a baby, Doesn't do it towards any new horses at all, even if they are older than him.
He and our shetland youngster used to love rolling in feed buckets...I'm pleased to say that Storm no longer does this (at 15.3 there definately would be a lot of broken buckets around!) although the shetland still does.

 

[TwigFairweather]

They tend to grow out of that by the time they are 2. I'm soon to be having my first horse from a foal so i'm sure I'll be asking questions before long!

 

[Bosrebel]

how about disrepecting human personal space and disrespecting fences..meaning, pushing on them until they give way.... hoping he will grow out of that?!!!!