Just for fun - Does your horse do anything funny when getting feed/hay

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Just as the title says:

My lot:

Dexter - Canter pirouettes in stable when I'm coming down yard with his bowl. (Wish they were that good when I'm in the school on him)

Lou Lou - Bucks like mad for the first couple of mouthfuls then waves a front leg around in the air whilst eating the rest.

Jock - Without fail gets his willy out and has a pee when he gets his hay (even if he's just had one !!!

All 3 of them if they don't like the hay I've got them will pull it all out their nets and poo & pee all over it and mush it into the bed. (This is highly embarassing when I have to phone hay supplier to pick all unused bales up and replace explaining that I have extremely fussy horses, when all other horses on yard will eat it!!!)
 
Meg bucks! She has been known to canter off around the field between mouthfuls too. Her excuse is thats its windy! Pain in the neck cos it takes her ages to eat!!
 
When fed in field my boys come galloping flat out up 2 me then one of my boys eats his food then lifts his foot up and starts swinging it around it really sweet :p and then sometimes he will put his food in his feed and flip all the food out lol bless him x then the other boys eat there food normally, no tricks :D x
 
Forgot to say things get interesting when they've finished eating to:

Dexter will pick his bowl up and throw it out of the stable at anyone passing - he likes to throw things :D

Jock will hook his bowl of his door with his nose and deposit it on the yard

Lou Lou is the strangest she has one of those indestructable (supposedly) bowls made from old tyres, its quite large and she likes to either stand in it or gets it between her back legs and rub it between then, she will also try and put her back legs in a tub trug whilst I'm trying to use it to skip her out :rolleyes:
 
When Herc can see his bucket he goes and stands in the corner where he has his feed to wait, for all of a second, then comes back to the door and starts whickering demandingly...then goes back again.

The best one he did was go stand in his corner as i picked a bucket up (not his) then walked out of his stable and tried to follow me as i walked past him, my mum was pee-in her self laughing at him.

Blue just kicks.
 
Not as funny as everyone else's but B opens his mouth as wide as he can and puts his whole face in his feed bucket. I think he's trying to fit lots of food into his mouth but then realises he can only chew a little at a time, so then he dumps the rest-it often gets dropped onto his bed to be eaten by the chickens!

He's currently on a very watered down (i.e. soup-y) meal and gets it ALL over his face. It looks cute because he's so dark!
 
typical greedy pig galops flat out when food comes near nearly runs you over shoves his head in the bowl sometimes paws the bowl for more
 
My last horse danny, used to pin his ears back and show his teeth whilst lifting a foreleg and pawing the air, he only did it in his stable when brought his tea and never bit. I thought it was very strange.
 
Mine usually gets hard feed before his haylage so if you feed him th haylage first he throws the haylage around his stable to try and find the hard feed, but theres none there :p silly moo ... mine always goes for a pee when im making his hard feed, weird chap ... he also winnies alot at you and as soon as he gets it he fills his gob so much he looks like a hamster then has to spit it back out because hes got to much to chew lol ... also whiggles front legs in the air
 
My Bella canters in circles in her stall when her hay is coming. She then flings it all out of her feeder so she can get to the alfalfa blossoms that fall to the bottom - that's her favorite part.

She used to kick out with one back foot while she ate. I called it her kicking foot and it was funny to watch. She's since relaxed quite a lot and is less likely to do it.
 
Tom always has a pee when he hears you making up their feeds

Ron doesn't really do anything funny, apart from hungry face if he's starving. He does however paw the concrete when I'm washing him down after hunting which means "i'd like electrolytes now"

ETA - he also flings the empty bucket at you when he's finished!
 
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as my yard is in the field so to speak I try to get feeds done before they notice and come galloping up, however if not H will shut me in the shed and open the door and keep slamming it until he gets tea. He does get told off but it goes in one big ear and out the other
 
LOL! What crazy horses!!!!

Mine just cranes his neck over the door as far as poss to see what you're doing. He'll back up to let me put it in his cow feeding bowl (he used to kick it around, that solved the problem) then eats with one leg lifted.

All that pleasure from one little bowl... :rolleyes:
 
Kelly (has never ever come to call before) will gallop over to the gate at dinner time to come in and drag you to her stable - as you take her feed in she crowds all round you and is all up in your face so I say "excuse me, manners??" and she backs off and waits till I put it on the floor :)
If she's waiting for her feed, anybody, I mean anybody, who walks onto the yard gets a shout out!!
 
Winston takes a mouthful of haylage and then steps sideways, dunks it in his drinker, eats it and repeats the whole thing over and over again!!

Fudge has been taught to say please by a previous owner and constantly says please whilst eating (waves right fore around). He also stands with one hind leg extended if another horse is in the next box. Not moving it just stands with it stretched out behind him - cor that is so scary!!!
 
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