Following on from the "worst vice" topic, what's the funniest thing...

[wizoz]

...your horse has done?

Boo is such an hilarious little chap, when you let him out in the field, which is all seperated by electric fence taping but not electrified, he will decide where he wants to be, pulls out one of the posts then walks casually under and into another part of the field!

The other day he was meant to be in a very small paddock while his foot heels, but OH NO, he decided he was going to go walk about, he went all around the yard, into the barn, pinched all the spillers treats knocked the garlic all over the floor and went into the other horses stable, did a poo and put himself BACK in the original field

Clever little s0d

 

[bensababy]

when i first got my boy (he was 8months old) i turned him out ina field which had quite a narrow entrance,as soon as i let him off he dropped to the floor (like he had been shot) and layed there flicking a poo with his hoof and wouldnt move.

 

[wizoz]

Strange boy, does he still do it?

 

[bensababy]

nope it was a one off.. hes finally grown up at 14! lol
he was very naughty when he was younger.

 

[gemmaw]

blade finds it good to take off grumps rugs!

he pulls them from his neck and if the back legs straps arnt on it comes off like a pullover!! little sod!!! took me ages to find why i could never keep a rug on grump, best of it was it was a very expensive rug that only came with a fillet string and it was ruined!! cant believe he let him do it!!

 

[custard]

Will's very good at untying himself and sneaking off very quietly so's you don't notice he's gone. At least not until he's gone exploring every other stable with the door open and rolled in all the beds!

 

[Hedgewitch13]

My (chestnut

) mare had a temper tantrum once when I was lunging her. She decided she didn't want to change the rein so promptly threw herself on the floor and then lifted her head up to stare directly at me as if to say 'now make me do it'. I poked her in the tummy a couple of times with the end of the lunge whip and she got up and lunged beautifully for the rest of the session.
That's just one of her tantrum stories..... She threw herself of a lorry ramp once in a fit of pique. Fortunately it was a soft landing. Thank goodness she got over that phase of her youth fairly quickly.

 

[Tia]

I have to say I don't find any vices/naughty behaviour funny; it almost certainly means extra work and money from me.

 

[maisie]

My boy throws buckets around - mostly empty feed buckets which fly over the stable door, but he did throw a full bucket of water at my OH once

 

[Ravenwood]

My mare is quite funny - she will back up to the wheelbarrow when its propped up against the wall and then play with it very gently with her back legs - just sort of tapping it and running her leg up and down it - until it falls over and then she is most put out - she does it with her water buckets in her stable as well - not so funny if she knocks those over!

 

[wizoz]

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I have to say I don't find any vices/naughty behaviour funny; it almost certainly means extra work and money from me.

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This isn't about vices, it's about "the funniest thing your horse has done" you know, humour, funny, laugh

 

[henryhorn]

Our late stallion used to have a footpath running next to his field.
He would stand there waiting for people to pass, then pick up his feedbucket and throw it at them with deadly accuracy.. I swear he laughed to see them jump as it hit them.
I suppose nowadays we would get sued for trauma..

 

[GinGin2]

I once lost Phoenix, was hunting around the back of the stables, in my friends garden thinking he had got out of the paddock somehow... he was in the hay shed (it's like half the size of a normal stable and was half full of hay... he was FULLY in there like a child in a sweet shop!

 

[Janah]

I have to use a trigger hook on my boys stable bolt or he gets out and lets everyone else out as well. He did it one night and all the horses were milling round the yard.

He is also good at getting through a double stranded electric fence without pulling it down. And no he doesn't jump it, he limbo's through.

 

[Enfys]

Not a one off, Robin does this all the time.

She loves the top of her tail being rubbed and will back (very slowly) up to anyone in the field and just stand there waiting to be rubbed. If you move to the side she swivels, again very carefully, turning to check exactly where you are and making sure she doesn't step on you, until you are back in position. It can be very annoying when you are trying to work in a field, thankfully she doesn't actually rub on fencing, it wouldn't stand a chance.

 

[elsielouise]

My four year old throws buckets as soon as they are empty or, anything in reach really. I am also quite amused by her need to roll in the hay I'm putting out in the field for them, then lie down on top of it and eat it from under her. My other mar elooks at her like she is completely bonkers.

She is a clown.

 

[Blackhawk]

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Our late stallion used to have a footpath running next to his field.
He would stand there waiting for people to pass, then pick up his feedbucket and throw it at them with deadly accuracy.. I swear he laughed to see them jump as it hit them.
I suppose nowadays we would get sued for trauma..

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I have discovered that my new horse does this. It's like he lies in wait for certain people to walk past.

 

[Santa_Claus]

If anyone is silly enough to leave anything close enough to his door and he is a bit bored Dan will steal things from outside his stable to play with/eat in his stable. Next door neighbour despite knowing he has a stupidly long neck repeatably leaves things far too close so he nicks them. Recent steals include two newly laundered rugs which he decided he needed as pillows, although he was good enough to leave them in their plastic bags/covers so they were not damaged. Then the next day (despite next door neighbour watching me retrieve rugs day before) he stole a bag of dengie.

Apparently she was not impressed but it was her own fault as she had plenty of space to put it out of his reach.

Here is some photographic evidence, here he stole an empty feedbag I had left I thought out of reach until I turned round when hearing rustling...

 

[Seahorse]

My last horse Rocky was ready to go hunting one day, I nipped off to get changed and when I came back he had gone!
We eventually found him on the lorry, he had loaded himself and was standing there waiting