Friesian X - How intelligent?? **pics**

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My Friesian X (tb) is so intelligent. He is now almost 5 and has always been a bright button. He can open stable doors, shut the tops of stable doors locking the other horses in and can turn on a tap to drink, (unfortunately he hasn't mastered turning it off when he's finished). Just wondered if anyone else had a Friesian x that was super intelligent as well? This is the monkey, gorgeous and he knows it!
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Your boy is gorgeous, I too love greys and I too have a giant ginger!

I have a KWPN who is super intelligent, not always a good thing. A few of the many examples of his intelligence/ sense of humour are: he will take the cap off your head, dunk it in the water and bring it back to you, he has let himself out of his stable, then gone round and let all the other horses on the yard out, he can undo knots, untie hay nets and he has learnt how to take the 5 bar steel gate off the hinges and bring himself in when he is cold!

They are a joy but also a curse, he learns everything we teach him so we have to get it right the very first time.
 
Awww, he is beautiful!

I doubt it is the friesian genes that are giving him the intelligence, they have a reputation for being a bit dim (my girl is lovely, but not the most intelligent...!!) but you never know, maybe he got lucky!lol
 
I used to own an id x mare called millie. She was very intelligent. She too coudl open stable doors, take rugs off with out undoing the straps, take bridles and head collers off. She also knew voice commands, like yes , no and could tap out numbers with her hoof. She woudl also push gates open with her nose if asked. At the age of 5 she was already doing most lateral movemts, just for fun. Could do one and 2 time changes, canter half pass, piaffe. She was also a very talanted jumper. At a show once she managed to open the jockey door on the horse trailer and kept looking out. She used to untie her self and my dog when i used to tie her up next to her. She always got her self out of sticky situations and was just a bit too intelligent for her own good i think. When she was a weanling in the process of being weaned she used to jump over the stable door to try and get back to her mummy.
 
mrsfell said:
FDC - your horse sounds like a nightmare to keep an eye on!!
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He certainly makes life interesting! He has this week taken himself off up the top yard from the bottom one, because he does not like waiting for his friend to go out, thrown a parsnip at Elizabeth, he does not like them and yet again taken the restricter off his lick (which TBH is more than I can do!)

He also out did himself with the vet the other day, she came to see Fany, who has a sore leg, and he had his vacs. at the same time. She did him first as he can be a bit tricky. Anyway she spent a lot of time on Fany as we had to clip her legs to get a skin sample for a biopsy, well he did not like not being ignored so he huffed and puffed, throw himself on the floor and banged the door, he does like to be the centre of attention! :rolleyes:
 
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