Long yearling 'pawing'

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I understand it can be a form of impatience/begging for food. Makes sense as its usually when she's waiting to be fed, does it a lot when tied up. I always ask her to back up before I set her feed down and also only untie her when she's standing nicely. Anything else I need to be doing, shall I just ignore it?
 
I find the more I try to correct my 5yo doing it the more he does it as soon as my back is turned. If I just ignore him he soon gets bored which makes me think it's not him being impatient but attention seeking. However someone else I know managed to stop theirs by delivering a loud "ah ah" as soon as they did it. I guess it's trial and error really. I know a loud "ah ah" would have zilch effect on my lad but if my friend ignored hers and waited for him to get bored he'd have filed all his hooves off! ;)
 
Oh dear.. Kicker in the making.

Where do you make up the food? If its near then you have to move it. Then, perhaps give hay and once distracted with that, sneak in with the food and leave.

Don't give any attention whatsoever for pawing.
 
Ahhh I have just started dishing it up in front of her will do it round the corner from now on. Yes ignoring seems to be best as she does it much less now.

I hate her kicking her door so feel I can't ignore that, most of them at my yard do at feed time but they are older.. I don't want her forming a habit!
 
My welsh D pawed all the time when he was tied up last year, I ignored it, stopped tying him up for a while (I don't really need to tie him he just stands like a rock while I groom and pick up feet). This year I've started tying him up again and he's totally stopped pawing. He's 3 in April.
 
I think its a combination of impatience and attention seeking and I believe if you ignore they grow out of it.

Mine is 5 and does it sometimes especially when tied up, sometimes she paws so high she gets her leg over the bottom rail of the fence which was alarming one time when the posts were rotted and she pulled the fence down! She hasn't done it for a while, maybe that made her realise it was stupid!

I just tend to drape a lead rope over the fence and she stands still mostly, seems to make her feel less restricted so she doesn't do it so much.
 
She is sec d x. I taught her to ground tie last summer and was doing grooming and feet in her paddock with no issues. She is quite high energy so it's understandable, the more turnout she gets the less she does it. My first youngster so just wanted to check what others do as my friends coblets never did this. My old farrier told her off for pawing once which made me think am I being 'soft' ignoring it...
 
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