What extra features would you pay for on a horse?

[ycbm]

I was saying yesterday that I would pay extra to get a feature that's been factory installed in one of my horses. A good doer who eats anything, but only eats the amount that he needs.

I've also always said I would pay extra to get the feature that I found out this morning the other one has. A coat that the mud falls off as soon as you wave a brush near it.

Are there any optional extras you'd pay more money for?
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[Auslander]

Ive got one who only poos on her mats - her bed is immaculate every morning. I'd pay good money for that function on all of them

 

[YorksG]

I was saying yesterday that I would pay extra to get a feature that's been factory installed in one of my horses. A good doer who earts anything, but only eats the amount that he needs.

I've also always said I would pay extra to get the feature that I found out this morning the other one has. A coat that the mud falls off as soon as you wave a brush near it.

Are there any optional extras you'd pay more money for?
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I'll bet its the spotty with the self clean coat? I'm on the third that has that!

 

[cauda equina]

Gears!
You just set it going in eg working trot, and it carries on without any further input from you until you change gear
And perfect straightness
(Inspired by having a go on a mechanical horse)

 

[Parrotperson]

I want the self mucking out model please. ??

 

[ycbm]

I'll bet its the spotty with the self clean coat? I'm on the third that has that!

No it's the PRE! Her coat has always been extremely shiny and it turns out the mud slips of too But he does have an incredibly thin coat and doesn't much like rolling in mud, so he's almost as good

 

[ycbm]

Ive got one who only poos on her mats - her bed is immaculate every morning. I'd pay good money for that function on all of them
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Bliss! Got to be worth thousands, that one ? ? ?


I have the opposite. The spotty one has a small patch of bed to wee in in one corner of a 15x15 stable and he never poos on the floor, always in the shavings.

 

[criso]

What sort of soil do you have? I'm within the London clay basin and haven't found one that mud falls off.

It doesn't exist but I'd like some sort of translation device so i could have discussions with the tb about exactly what is the issue with that drain cover or that pole that doesn't apply to the others.

 

[ihatework]

Clean in the stable
Doesn’t roll in the mud
Even white socks and facial markings
Comes to call religiously
Easy to feed

Those are the ones for if I’m looking after it.

If I’m not in charge and it’s a competition horse, then as long as it’s talented and trainable it matters not a jot. Although I’ll always be swayed by even whites

 

[ihatework]

Oh and a nice thick tail and a thinnish mane that lies to the right side nice and neatly

 

[Rowreach]

Clean in the stable
Doesn’t roll in the mud
Even white socks and facial markings
Comes to call religiously
Easy to feed

Those are the ones for if I’m looking after it.

Mine has all of those features

 

[ihatework]

Mine has all of those features

Sold!

 

[luckyoldme]

I would get a coffee cup holder
And a button to lower the suspension so i could get on easier.
Apart from that my old boy was perfect.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Wolverine's power of healing. Horses are too fragile.

 

[SEL]

I'd settle for 4 working legs!

 

[Rowreach]

Oh and a nice thick tail and a thinnish mane that lies to the right side nice and neatly

She has the tail too, but she's hogged ...

 

[ycbm]

I would get a coffee cup holder
And a button to lower the suspension so i could get on easier.

I like your outside the box thinking ? !

 

[PapaverFollis]

Granny horse was the horse you could feed ad-lib but she never got fat but she was also a good doer and didn't drop weight either! I miss that feature!

I think, apart from obvious perfect health and soundness, a self cleaning tail would be a useful upgrade on the greys.

 

[luckyoldme]

I like your outside the box thinking ? !

Too long with my 450 horses!

 

[Rowreach]

A coat length regulator would be good, so you could programme it depending work/weather/rugged/unrugged and chuck out the clippers.

 

[PapaverFollis]

Some kind of anti-gravity/hovercraft attachment for turn out in wet fields.

 

[scruffyponies]

How about one of those economy/sport mode buttons, so you can choose whether you want an exciting day or not?

 

[Gloi]

A universal translator so I could ask him what he wants and which bit hurts and chat to him on long rides out. Fortunately I think he likes rides out, wouldn't like to get 'are we there yet' every 5 minutes.

 

[PapaverFollis]

If I could talk to my horses the conversation would go.

"You're fat, stop eating too much"
"Back at ya, yer fat ****"


Pause


"And you sit on my back so I think my opinion counts most"


Pause


"Hey don't go! I didn't mean it. Come back "

Pause

"I'm hungry"

 

[AdorableAlice]

One that could operate the wheel barrow and poop scoop would suit me.

 

[PapaverFollis]

I do have one that comes over and poops in the barrow if I happen to be out with it when he needs to go.

 

[criso]

If I could talk to my horses the conversation would go.

"You're fat, stop eating too much"
"Back at ya, yer fat ****"


Pause


"And you sit on my back so I think my opinion counts most"


Pause


"Hey don't go! I didn't mean it. Come back "

Pause

"I'm hungry"

When lunging

Come on trot on

Hey someone else here could stand to lose a few pounds and I'm the one running round the outside while you stand in the middle

 

[fredflop]

One that clips itself

 

[Melody Grey]

A default setting of stand still and be grown up about this ?‍

 

[Mrs G]

When lunging
Come on trot on
Hey someone else here could stand to lose a few pounds and I'm the one running round the outside while you stand in the middle

My lad communicates this to me already, no words required; he only goes properly forward if I run with him! So lunging is just as much exercise for me as it is him (I prob get more out of breath lunging than riding)! So I’d skip the universal translator feature (i think I already know what he thinks of me, not sure I’d want to hear it out loud), but the self-healing, or even better, an ‘indestructible’ feature would certainly be a bonus!