fishy
Well-Known Member
Hi I'm after some advice. A horse has recently moved onto our yard which has been known and seen to kick. It tries to kick at its owner when its being groomed and it kicks out at other horses if its tied up outside. It has also kicked a couple of horses and in its attempts to get one kicked a girl. Yesterday it was turned out in the field with my pony and two others. I believe it has been in the field with the other two, but not mine. The other two were brought in and my daughter went to get ours believing the other horses owner to be behind her. The two were at the bottom of the field and as she brought ours up the other cantered up behind, she let the pony go and went to the gate to catch him. As she got to the gate the other horse turned on ours and double barrelled him 3 times. She managed to get him out of the field as the others owner arrived to collect it. He was not badly hurt but my daughter was quite shaken. I mentioned what had happened to the horses owner and she was quite abrupt and said no she had seen what had happened and it was all about pecking order. I said I wasn't sure about that and I was concerned that my daughter might have been injured. She clearly was not!! What would you have done? Sorry this is a long post, thank you for reading x