Stupid things horses are scared of...

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I took my horse in the manège this afternoon and on the first walk round (long rein) stopped stared and spun round. I took up a contact and took him round the dodgy spot again . FOUR Feet were firmly planted 10 yards away from it... After about 5 minutes of 10 m circles and stopping and staring I got off toward him to the dodgy spot. Guess what was that scary??? Bet u can't ..


That's right a piece of cow parsley growing in the paddock... One specific bit out of hundreds I might add... Horses they never fail to suprise me. I wonder if it'll be that scary tomorrow!
 
Hanging horse licks. Fly thinks they are out to kill her so can't be put in her stable. She now won't go near anything that shape, lol. She was in the stable with me. Watching me put it up and even had a go at it. Then went to her hay, turned around, saw it and jumped out of her skin and proceeded to snort the stable down until I removed it. She actually hid behind me bless her.
 
I reckon my Welsh takes the biscuit. He's fantastic on the road, utterly bombproof with any sort of traffic so it was a surprise when his eyes went out on stalks and he began to throw a typically Welshy panic - legs all over the place, lots of snorting. The reason? The phone box he'd been past hundreds of times had been taken away! I can only assume he thought some monster that ate phone boxes and was therefore big enough to eat rather small Section D's was hiding behind the hedge.

The other time he had a real boggle was when one of the parked up cars he went past all the time had had a wheel taken off.
 
Lovescobs said:
Blue flowers, all others are ok, just the blue ones ....
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We have one that hates yellow ones! :D The drama we have whenever we are faced with an oilseed field...

My mare gets very upset and frightened when we walk past a particular house we pass on one of our rides, as it has horse head statues on the gateposts - she is absolutely terrified of them. Can totally see where she is coming from though, can't blame her!!
She's also scared stupid of white sheepskin girth covers. Anything else sheepskin is fine, any other colour is fine - just the white girth covers.


My late gelding was notoriously difficult with silver cars too.
 
Chloe-anything that flaps that includes plastic bags and birds! A pigeon was sat on the school fence and was literally eyeballing it until she'd trust it!

Amber is quite chilled and relaxed although a hay bale wrapped in plastic in a field did catch her out this week when out hacking, had to sniff and nose it several times just to make just it was dead and wouldnt eat her!

Our old horse DJ had a total hissy fit when his next door neighbour was wearing one of the those cow print rugs, DJ spotted him from the top of the yard and refused to walk any further!
 
My Connie is fab given he's young and green. Will happily hack down main roads, big London buses no problem, couldn't care less about bikes but drains in the road are terrifying and require his best dragon impression. Who knew?!
 
Other horses when we're out. If we meet one she goes all quivery. Daughters horse is scared of anything any other horse is scared of, she has no mind of her own at all. :p

Pot holes were scarey last Tuesday, but they're ok now.:)

We're still not convinced theres not a horse eating monster living in the farm across the road yet either. :eek:
 
Buses nope. tractors nope. flapping plastic nope. But omg change the rug posistions in his stable he goes to melt down. My lass finds most things scary but she has excuse of sight and prvious home but akways listens to her mum that its ok :)
 
Yellow salt bins, the small green bottle buckets each household gets, and yesterday wrapped haylege bales in the newly cut field.. Now they were definitely horse eaters in disguise!
 
You can land a helicopter in the ponies field, shoot a machine gun or throw a bomb but god help you if a leaf falls of a tree and blows along the road
Ponies formerly lived on a shooting range on the end of a runway
 
1 particular purple flower ... i bet the lady in that house cracks up every time mysti snorts and princes past keeping an eye on the killer flower :D
 
Leaves of a different colour, especially docks. Purple flowers. A pile of stones covering a rabbit hole on a track, had a proper meltdown about this. Bits of wood on the ground, they're given an eye as we edge past them.
 
My Fjord isn't generally afraid of anything. On a pleasure ride we went past a field covered with huge round hay bales, she was fine, until we got to the next field which had one, solitary round bale in it. She tried to turn round and run away. Clearly when in packs they are safe but rogue ones are dangerous!
 
My girl is apparently pretty much bombproof to all road and farming traffic, a kids birthday party with bouncy castles in the next field, fireworks and even bird scarers, but the one time she freaks . . . . a cheap pink watering can I bought to wet her feed with, she eyeballs it from the moment I pick it up, will sneak over an sniff it with eyes on stalks, flaring nostrils and then bolt across the field, I fear she may be a tad odd
 
Mine spooks as large stones...you know, the ones that have fallen off dry dike walls etc...terrifying.

And the patches of grass that are a diffent colour... Or bits of hay that have blown about after the fields have been cut.....if she was a cartoon horse she would have googly eyes :eek:

I wouldn't change her for the world though :)
 
Harry lives in a field next to a herd of geese (who often pay a visit) but the day that one sat on a patch of grass he could see from the School.... OMG!!!
 
last night it was quite literally his own shadow on the barn wall in the school that he was scared of - took me several circuits to work out what he was looking at though, he is a muppet :D
 
At our old yard we used to have to hack past a house on the way to the forest and one nice sunny day the owners had decided to hang their bird cage with their parrot inside it on the front porch. A very worried pony was giving it the eye, but boy did he get a shock when it actually said hello to him. He was never able to walk past that house again without dramatics regardless of whether that parrot was there or not :D
 
blitznbobs said:
I took my horse in the manège this afternoon and on the first walk round (long rein) stopped stared and spun round. I took up a contact and took him round the dodgy spot again . FOUR Feet were firmly planted 10 yards away from it... After about 5 minutes of 10 m circles and stopping and staring I got off toward him to the dodgy spot. Guess what was that scary??? Bet u can't ..


That's right a piece of cow parsley growing in the paddock... One specific bit out of hundreds I might add... Horses they never fail to suprise me. I wonder if it'll be that scary tomorrow!
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I feel you here ended up with whiplash and a lovely set of grazes from Darcys ABS kicking in at a rather malicious looking cow parsley :D
Has a problem with rocks also actually most natural things ,flags balloon, trafic gunfire,trains no probs .Funny creatures x
 
Me when I'm cleaning tack!!! I kid u not!! I don't know if its the smell of the soap or the fact that its not a regular occurrence but it sends my mare to the back of her stable snorting!!
 
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