Horse crossing front legs

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My horse occasionally crosses her front legs while standing tied up, curling (mostly) the off fore around the nearside leg. Only lasts for a few seconds and then she stands normally again. Do you have a horse that does this, is it a stress thing?
 
Digger66 said:
My horse occasionally crosses her front legs while standing tied up, curling (mostly) the off fore around the nearside leg. Only lasts for a few seconds and then she stands normally again. Do you have a horse that does this, is it a stress thing?
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I have had two horses who did this both developed kissing spines as they got older .
 
What is she doing when she does this?
Got one at work who thinks its great fun to cross his legs, he once managed to pull his shoe off so thinks he can do it again! Said horse also got his foot stuck in his water drinker and just stood waiting to be rescued. As a youngster he used to get himself cast just for the reaction. His groom at the time used to smack the door with a whip and he'd roll back over and get up. You need to look at how she is when she's doing it, is it for a reaction, is she being cheeky? It is not normal for them to do this (its a test they do on the neurological tests) but some horses are just not normal. :D
 
I've only seen her do it maybe 6 or 7 times in total. Mostly when she's standing tied up, but also standing ready to go in harness. She didn't seem distressed in any way - perhaps it's polite impatience, or just an unusual mannerism.
 
Digger66 said:
I've only seen her do it maybe 6 or 7 times in total. Mostly when she's standing tied up, but also standing ready to go in harness. She didn't seem distressed in any way - perhaps it's polite impatience, or just an unusual mannerism.
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One of the ones I saw do it was one of my driving horses .
 
Quite often, when he saw the harness was the time he did it the most .
He was an older when I bought him and it was very difficult to get a driving saddle to fit ( we had to have one made ) it's thought his development of KS was linked to years in ill fitting driving saddles .
He was a lovely horse one of my favorites .
His KS was managed with steroid jabs very sucessfully but we stopped driving him ( he clearly went off it ) he was PTS for another issue in the end .
 
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