My horse is a berk

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Took Dylan out for a hack this evening ... he was perfect on the way out, didn't put a hoof wrong. I was pleased :)

Turned him to come home, and he spooked at everything. EVERYTHING. To the point where it was more of a constant twitch than actual spooking. It got very irritating very quickly.

Gah, berk of a horse.
 
No ,he,s probably not a berk, he just couldnt see so well with the sun low in the sky and quite bright too I guess.Let me guess, it was behind him going home.Horses vision is a very strange thing and we dont take it into account enough.
 
Tee hee. I know how annoying that it, Herc spooked earlier at absotely nothing. He does it quite a bit, i think its to check i'm awake.

He will also walk past something over a douzen times with out batting an eyelid...Then one day decide it's going to eat him. (This includes standing and sniffing the hosepipe for a good 5 mins the other day, then shooting backwards as he confimed that hose pipes do infact breath fire :rolleyes: )
 
Mike007 - The light was fine, it was to the left of us on the way out, right on the way back, and at no point was it behind him. And different light levels don't make him spook at noises he didn't bother with 20 minutes earlier.

Starsnrunes - I feel your pain, Dylan does that too. One day, things are fine and dandy; next day, the exact same things are terrifying. He sometimes spooks at sheep which are standing in plain view if he happens to be having a berk day ... there are a few sheep in his field, and there always have been, and he has never been remotely fussed by them *rolls eyes*
 
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I think my horse has berk days too. Last week nothing bothered him, even in the wind. this week he is spooking at bits of paper in the hedge. I think he finds it funny!
 
Best one - He spooked spectacually (not just his normal lil jump) at a bush halfway down our track the otherweek. We've only walked past this bush an average of 10 times a week for the last 7/8 years. No noices, no one behind it, nothing flew out. He suddenly decided it was going to eat him.....The kicker - We were out with the YO's 2year old Granddaughter, and he jumped in to the shetland she was riding.
 
My share horse has currently taken a disliking to shadows that move, bit of a problem in tree lined roads when the sun is out- I wouldnt mind but he's 18!!!........ he'd like to join the "Berk" club too please!
 
In fairness,Lance was also a Berk. He shyed at squirrels, but even more scary were the invisible squirrels that made no sound!!they can eat a 17.3 ISH in under a minute(or is that pirahnahs)
 
Yep, I think my horse can join the club too. We had only been riding past the parked tractor all week, and it had been parked opposite the stables too. We had ridden out past it one day, and by the time we had come back it had morphed into a horse eating monster and wanted my boy, so to protect us both from this evil machine he spun round quickly and started walking back the other way. Idiot. I then had to coax him back past it, he pinned himself as close to the hedge as possible and then he went for it getting past as quick as he could. This is the worst spook he has had and to be honest, and I was wetting myself laughing at him so much - what a clown. :rolleyes:
 
My OH's horse always shies at things more on the way home, I think she is trying to use it as an excuse to go home faster! She is better with another horse and worse on her own. I think if it was a novice rider she would be trotting all the way home. When we get back to the stables she always shies in the gateway - I'm sure this is to make sure she can get home! They are all berks!
 
Can I join too...? My horse decided that a for sale sign that had been placed stupidly (by another human berk) about 2 foot high was a Gilbey eating monster! My normally ever so quiet horse shot past it and then tried to buck all the way home as everything was out to get him! I haven't ridden with such short reins for years!!
 
For mine, it's simple thought process:-

spook on the way home at something that isn't remotely scarey (trees, grass etc)...............
put lump on back out of equilibrium............
run home as fast as I can to see if there's food waiting or sexy S has come back into season :D

Put it this way, he NEVER does it with OH :rolleyes:
 
Lol Paddy was like this, the amount of times he lept into my friends 4yo nearly nocking the poor thing over at leaves, nothing, gateways, daffodils he had walked past a 1000 times before!
The best....i had to fight for about 10 mins to get him past a parked up trailer with nothing on it, he lept, snorted, ran back, then finally passed it in the hedge as far away as he could get to it at 100 miles an hour......then on our way home when it came round a blind corner on a narrow country lane at about 30 miles an hour clattering and banging and scaring everyone elses horse, he didnt bat an eyelid at it! Berk of a hoss!!
 
Ok, so it seems I'm not the only one with a berk :D that's good to know.

Keep the stories coming! Why should your horse join the HHO Berk Club? (It's very exclusive ;) )
 
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Gah, berk of a horse.
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:D Very influential Arabian stallion he was!;)

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/berk

My mare has to pass some mail boxes up the road at least 6 times a week, every single time we leap sideways across the road - just at the red one though, she'll walk past the yard with 8 leaping, howling shetland sheepdogs without batting an eye though. She had a new saddle pad today - apparently, it was a Lola eating monster and she snorted and eye rolled at it for a good 5 minutes before she'd even let me pick it off the stall wall! Who knows what they see!
 
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