Horses are silly sometimes

MissTyc

MissTyc

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My horses come in and out "like livestock", i.e. loose. My job is to open and close gates and calmly take themselves to their stables. This little group has been together for 5 winters now (in summer they are mixed with a larger group) and have always gone into the correct stables once the behaviour was learned. Then then wait for the door to be closed following which buckets come out for distribution.

Yesterday evening, I was closing the gate behind them as usual, when I watched them in a very calm single file disappear one by one into the same 12x12 stable. 14.4hh, 15.1hh, and 16.2hh, all chunky (in fact, one of the reasons I don't like keeping them in because the stable is too small for the big guy these days). I hurried to the block to find them calmly squished into this one stable, ears pricked as though expecting buckets to arrive now ... I couldn't even see the one squeezed into the very back, other than his little face peeking over the others.

It's a good thing they love each other! Think we might be using headcollars until normal service resumes! Wonder why they decided room mates were required?
 
MissTyc said:
My horses come in and out "like livestock", i.e. loose. My job is to open and close gates and calmly take themselves to their stables. This little group has been together for 5 winters now (in summer they are mixed with a larger group) and have always gone into the correct stables once the behaviour was learned. Then then wait for the door to be closed following which buckets come out for distribution.

Yesterday evening, I was closing the gate behind them as usual, when I watched them in a very calm single file disappear one by one into the same 12x12 stable. 14.4hh, 15.1hh, and 16.2hh, all chunky (in fact, one of the reasons I don't like keeping them in because the stable is too small for the big guy these days). I hurried to the block to find them calmly squished into this one stable, ears pricked as though expecting buckets to arrive now ... I couldn't even see the one squeezed into the very back, other than his little face peeking over the others.

It's a good thing they love each other! Think we might be using headcollars until normal service resumes! Wonder why they decided room mates were required?
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No idea why, there’s some horse logic somewhere, but it’s made me laugh 🤣
 
Too cute and funny!!

If I've got mine tied outside his stable, I will sometimes unclip, open his stable door, and tell him to "go home". 99% of the time he does by himself. The other 1% he wanders off to another stable (that already has a homeowner that is home) or over to the patch of grass behind him
 
Three of our youngsters who are growing up together, all now rising 2 can often be found all asleep in a 12x12 stable !
13.2/14./15hh it's a tight squeeze but they seem happy 😍
 
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