Pigs, is your horse scared of them? What are they scared of?

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Just been replying to the fear of donkey thread. It made me think, what does scare horses? Captain was terrified of pigs, Fany is not keen on rail tracks, not actually scared, nothing except an empty feed bucket scares her
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So what is your horse scared of?
 
well yesterday it was the horsebox resulting in a 9 mile ride to his new home.He then decided that every single road marking and the cats eye were the scariest things ever.
 
Well i said nothing.... then remebered the other day (pre rubbish weather) we were trotting down the road quite harmlessley when he decided that there was a scary school triangle painted on the road... had to stop dead, snort at it, then carry on trotting... Ohhh and he wasnt particually keen on going in the cow field and having all the calfs charge up behind him at full pelt... that was fun
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But apart from that he is pretty chilled
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Depends on what mood he is in, it is either all or nothing. Although 9/10 we could have a perfectly calm and un-spooky hack but as soon as we come to this one particular house he does not like it, now this house has skips outside it, plastic on the front, scaffolding, road signs, you name it, yet it isn't the house he is scared of it is the white lines on the road outside it.
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He is fine with all road markings expect the ones outside this house which are no different to any others
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Yellow cars. And yesterday on a hack cows for some reason despite the fact she always sees them on a hack and used to be turned out with/next to them!
When I say scared I mean stopping for 10 seconds and having a good nosey and then walking calmly on.
 
Mine is afraid of pigs but not donkeys - she used to be turned out with a few and discovered she could chase them!
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She's not keen on cows either, but that's pretty much it.
 
For one it's pigs and those hydraulic brakes on lorries. Pigs cause him to act the fool, he doesnt have to be able to see them, just smell them...
Haudraulic brakes on lorries cause him to have a buckaroo. I dread lorries slowing down on hacks because I know they'll suddenly do that "whoosh" noise, and off he'll go, leaving smallest child laughing hysterically, me hanging onto his rein like a maddun and one worried looking lorry driver.

The other's scared of icicles it seems
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One caused him to stop, stare and gallop off in the other direction on Christmas eve. He would never survive in his native scotland
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i have a big outdoor pig unit near my house and my mare used to petrified and turn a run in the other direction, now after alot of persuasion she will go past but with a few snorts head up and a much faster walk/ trot.
said pig unit also has a shoot and so does the farm where she is kept, on those days she won't eat but stands glued to the spot.
the other big spooky thing is the marines on the common, over the years this has resulted in a few rears, shooting past them at speed, head held so high that my hands are at the end of the rubber on my reins & alot of kicking on from me, but most of the marines are fine and stop what they are doing.
on a hunting day other horses can be absolutely petrified of something (turkeys is 1 that springs to mind) and she will act like the big i am and will walk straight past, yet if i was on my own out hacking i wouldn't stand a chance of getting past them.
horses eh who would have 'em.
 
Several of my horses have been scared of pigs, will go past them but very nervously and unhappily. It is an inbuilt instinct in horses, as pigs are naturally their predators in the wild. They imagine boars with tusks goring their lower legs to disable them and stop them running away...

Quite a rational fear actually.
 
My big scardy mare is even afraid of her own poo. She has been know to jump across the road because a huge pile had mysteriously appeard and it wasnt there on the way out
 
One of mine is scared of cows. A friend's is terrified, absolutely witless, by donkeys. And I have a Ginger KWPN who is scared, literally, of his own shadow on the road. And any other thing that changes in his environment, like daffodils growing in a verge that weren't there last week when we hacked past
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Bananaman your coloured is absolutely stunning!!
 
Uno acts scared, ie grows, snorts, prances, spooks.....but always walks past, or goes over (fillers etc) the offending object. He is more likely to strike out or run at things that scare him, than run away...anyone else got one like this?
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The scared of pigs thing...I read somewhere that it is natural instinct, because years ago wild bores would hunt down equines and kill them, so the flight mechanism kicks in...
 
Horses don't usually like pigs because pigs were seen as predators way back in the equine primeval past, pigs (wild ones) used to eat horses.
Same as they don't like snakes for obvious reasons, even a hosepipe in the grass can scare a horse but like always there are exceptions and nothing seems to scare them, Oz
 
On one hack that we use regulary we have to pass a field of llamas, none of ours are keen on them especially the large one that races across the field spitting at the poor horses. They will all go past, but with alot of high blowing and tails over their backs, at least it makes the traffic slow down, as none of them are under 16.3!
 
Well mine is frightened of piebald ponies. She is convinced they are cows.
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Apart from that the only thing that bothers her is little high pitched motor scooters.
 
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Must be ginger KWPNs 'cos Cappy is the same! His worse nightmare, after pigs, is the ever moving dustbins, now you see them, next time you pass you don't! And don't talk to him about pheasants in winter and autumn or daffs/rabbits in spring and summer. They are all KWPN horsey eating monsters, waiting just for him!
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On one hack that we use regulary we have to pass a field of llamas, none of ours are keen on them especially the large one that races across the field spitting at the poor horses. They will all go past, but with alot of high blowing and tails over their backs, at least it makes the traffic slow down, as none of them are under 16.3!

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We have an Alpaca breeder near us. Uno has been past them so many times that he is not bothered. He wasn't THAT bothered when he first met them wierdly. He now loves them...he even has a friend (Arthur the Alpaca) who runs over for a conversation every time we hack past!
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