Inexplicable horse behaviour ?

[Mule]

Mine does this, except he then immediately lies down in it. Sometimes I only realise he's done it when I kiss his face and the stench us enough to alert me as to what he's done....and what I've just kissed. ?

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[tda]

Mine just have an annoying habit of somehow pulling the haynet off my big round bale of hay which is outside in a feeder for them at all times. They get half way down and start yanking at the net enough it starts lifting up and eventually off the rest of the bale so then of course it goes everywhere and they stamp it into the mud. Such a waste!

Bungee hooked on the net, slip under the feeder and hook on the other end. 4 of.
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[bouncing_ball]

Looks very similar in principle to the Road Refresher water bowls for dogs. Those work very well.

Don’t think be big enough? https://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/road-re...-fjcor487YJKle8Xf9ncKz5H1oEQMW-BoCGPwQAvD_BwE

 

[Landcruiser]

Ours will wave his legs around when you give him his bucket feed, then when he stops doing that he tends to tip the bucket upside down / kicks it over. When he has finished eating what’s left in the bucket / on the floor he likes to lift the bucket, stand on it, pull it, bite it, and eventually chuck it over the door.
We get through a lot of buckets…

My new youngster does this too. Always her left leg, she just kind of tucks it up and holds it up for about 10 seconds, a couple of times, as soon as you put her feed down. It's super cute.

 

[atropa]

One of mine seems to wait until she sees me to pee...put her into the stable after turnout, pees. See me coming with a feed bucket, pees. Knows its time for morning turnout, pees.
Another used to poop daily in her water drinker, luckily has now grown out of it, but once stood in her stable watching me scoop out the drinker and then decided to 'help' by sticking her nose in it and splashing the water over the side. Bless her, I think she thought it was a great game

 

[SussexbytheXmasTree]

When they won’t eat the perfectly good hay in the net you’ve just given them but they’ll eat the yard sweepings out of a poo filled wheelbarrow ?

 

[SpotsandBays]

Ours will wave his legs around when you give him his bucket feed, then when he stops doing that he tends to tip the bucket upside down / kicks it over. When he has finished eating what’s left in the bucket / on the floor he likes to lift the bucket, stand on it, pull it, bite it, and eventually chuck it over the door.
We get through a lot of buckets…

Oh my youngster does this too! My favourite time was when he’d finished his dinner (after hoovering up the feed hed kicked around the place), he picked up his bucket and waved it around abit - then walked straight up to my other half and slapped him around the head with the bucket!

 

[DizzyDoughnut]

One of mine seems to wait until she sees me to pee...put her into the stable after turnout, pees. See me coming with a feed bucket, pees. Knows its time for morning turnout, pees.
Another used to poop daily in her water drinker, luckily has now grown out of it, but once stood in her stable watching me scoop out the drinker and then decided to 'help' by sticking her nose in it and splashing the water over the side. Bless her, I think she thought it was a great game

Oh that's made think of another, my old pony waits till he hears me coming with his tea then has a wee, everyday he gets frustrated because he's mid wee and wants to get to his tea quicker. I don't know why he has to wee at that exact time but he does, you can go in and out of the feed room all the time and he doesn't do it apart from when you're bringing his tea to him then he must wee doesn't matter if he's in the stable or field.

 

[BBP]

Now that’s a plus!

You would think so, except generally I end up taking the extra time to go into the next field to poo pick that fence line as well.

 

[meleeka]

When they won’t eat the perfectly good hay in the net you’ve just given them but they’ll eat the yard sweepings out of a poo filled wheelbarrow ?

That’s very true