My horse has a pet pheasant

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Pointless post but it is just so cute. Horse takes the remainder of his breakfast and a wad of hay with him to the field (or rather I take it for him) and over the last couple of weeks we have acquired a pheasant who wanders around, waits in the next field and then when he sees us starts his way over. Yesterday was so funny, I am walking down the path with the horse, pheasant starts his approach at right angles to us, the three of us aiming for the spot where the breakfast bowl goes. I leave horse with brekkie, pheasant circles round horse, biding his time for when horse decides to wander off for his morning walk leaving the pheasant to have his brekkie.

As I say pointless but very funny to watch.
 
Haha, brilliant, I love it when they aquire their own little pets. Mine had a pet rook at the beggining of this winter and also (not a horse, sorry) my old Lurcher had a pet snail (don't know if it was always the same onr but nice to think so) at one point and if you put it in the garden he would go and fetch it back in. Strange things animals :D
 
That's brilliant. I love animal stories like this!!
My big horse has taken on my yard cat as his own. Cat sleeps with him in his stable and the horse regularly washes him!!!
 
Our youngster had one that lived with him in the field shelter one winter. I have a pic of them "together" somewhere. I think Mr Fox got him though as he just did not turn up one morning. He used to rummage through the leftover hay in the hayhutch.
 
I used to have one too, it would hang around until the girls had finished their dinner! very clever! also one year at another yard I had a robin that used to sit on the fence waiting for them to finish when I fed them in the field
 
Oakley has a robin who visits his stable. I put a normal sized Uncle Jimmys likit in a jumbo holder to make it more difficult for him to crunch it up, the robin perches on the lip and uses it like a bird feeder.
 
Tern said:
Mare has a bird on her bum.. always knew she was secretly a rhino. ;)
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My old horse 'adopted' a brood of baby swallows. They were living in the stable, but would follow us through the village, 400m to the paddock and then ride around on his back all day. Poor lad was covered in bird muck and wasn't impressed at his step-father status. They didn't sit on any of the other horses in adjacent paddocks, so I think they must have thought he was somehow related to them:-)
 
That is seriously cute! There's a fat little Robin that hangs out by the water trough in Lola's field, the youngster is often followed around by a Wagtail, and there are Swallows that make one or two nests in each of the stables every year!
 
My old gelding had a pet pheasant too. He had an injured wing and I don't think he could fly. He would sleep in the ponies bed with him at night, I think it was a safety thing as in there he was safe from foxes. He lived there for quite a while, then I found him dead in the road one day.
 
So do mine.

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Brilliant stories.
My chickens to take a 'bath' in my tb's deep shavings bed. They usually do it when I've turned her out. Sometimes I put the chain guard across and have come back to find the horse happily munching hay with a small flock of chickens scratching round her bed (this is a horse who likes to pretend she's terrrified of plastic bags - if the mood takes her!). I do shoo them out as I don't fancy dealing with a squashed chook.
One has taken to spending overnight in the stables - on the wall between the two horses, when they have breakfast, chook has some, lays an egg on the hay bales then goes back to the flock!
 
A friend of mine has a wild deer living with her horses; it's a doe and has been a part of the herd for years.

And my chickens do a fantastic job of spreading the fresh bedding after I've mucked out, I never have to go back and lay down beds :-)
 
We have a trio of pheasants that pass through my horse's field & we've got alot of wildlife including foxes, robins, squirrels, partridges & a barn owl which we've seen flying about a couple of times in the day it's beautiful to see. The pheasants are quite nervous though so tend to keep their distance.
 
There are a field of ponies near us who had a 'pet' deer for 2 winters running. He used to settle down to much his own pile of hay when the owners put it down for the ponies. We called him pony deer! I wonder where he has gone.
 
Sprig said:
There are a field of ponies near us who had a 'pet' deer for 2 winters running. He used to settle down to much his own pile of hay when the owners put it down for the ponies. We called him pony deer! I wonder where he has gone.
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There are deer in my field. They tried to help Alf and Spike with their hay once. Never tried it again!
 
Pahaha! Pet goat! How sweet. My cob has a pair of Pied Wagtails that trail round the field with him all day long, wagging their tails up and down. This week he has enjoyed the company of a flock of field fares too. He doesn't seem to bother about them, but for some reason they all hang on his every move. Maybe he is some sort of rockstar or celebrity in the animal kingdom!
 
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