Pigs and Horses - Fatal Combination?

We once encountered wild boar in the forest of dean with the dobbins. These were two ponies you could do absolutely anything to - they turned tail and ran, never seen them so scared!
 
My horses used to live with a huge pig she used to put herself into their paddock regulary to hang out with them, got a bit het up once when I was lunging my boy was quite funny, not sure what her issue was tho? She has passed on now, I just have a donkey, cows and goat.
 
We've got a couple of saddlebacks in the barn at the moment. When they're not wintering in, they're in a field next to the horses. We had a few wide eyed moments when the first arrived, but now none of them seem remotely interested. Desensitisation does work.
 
I was thinking of this thread this morning when a pig wandered under my horse's belly as I was trimming his feet and then plonked itself down on the pile of hay my horse was eating.
 
My horse got some new neighbours this week - Sheep Pigs!
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