horse behaviour question

pyrgirl · horse behaviour question

Moriah has started sniffing and pawing at Aslan's manure.
She doesn't eat it, but she tears it all apart by pawing at it.
Aside from being a nuisance since I have to rake it to pick it up, I was wondering what she's doing?
Shiloh isn't interested in it, and Aslan isn't returning the favor either.
She may be cycling right now, but I don't know how that would be related.
Any info?

McBunz

Well Patty he wrote her a love letter and she is reading it.. all done in
proper horse fashion...

Studs pile up manure and then pee on the pile.. then go and check the pile
often to see if there message has be read by another stallion or a mare.
Your big boy has left a message that he loves her but the romance is a
dead end..

Maybe she needs reading glasses..

She hasn't been around studs so maybe gelding poo messages sound
just fine to her..

littlestep

Yup/...POOOPY mail..

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Passing the smell test
When meeting a strange horse, for instance, he will use his nose to determine if it is friend or foe. Horses often greet each other by touching muzzles and deeply breathing each other's breath. This is a safe way to smell one another and make an in-depth check of intentions without exposing the rest of the body to a kick, bite, or strike. If the two are uncertain or suspicious of one another they may circle to keep each other at a safe distance, only touching noses until they have thoroughly sniffed the other's breath.
If they do not like what they smell, they may strike, whirl, and kick. If they decide to be friends, they may permit each other to sniff the entire body and end up nuzzling one another over the withers in mutual grooming and gentle neck biting.
Horses smell manure to identify each other; a horse going along a trail can tell who passed there earlier if his stablemate left some droppings, and stallions mark their territories with piles of manure to warn off intruding stallions. Horses can also detect the smell of an individual stablemate's track-from the oil secretions from the frog of the hoof.
Horses can detect fear and other emotions of another horse by smelling the hormone-like secretions in sweat and urine known as pheromones. Pheromones also are used as sexual signals. A stallion can easily distinguish a mare in heat from other mares and can detect a mare in heat as far away as 200 feet-or farther if the wind currents are coming his way-without even seeing her.
When smelling a mare to check her sexual status, the stallion will smell her urine and then stick his nose in the air and curl back his upper lip. As he does this, he closes his nostrils to a mere slit and makes a snuffling sound as he draws air through his closed nose and into an organ within the nasal passage to capture and sort the chemical odors for a more thorough interpretation.

pyrgirl

Well, I'll be!

Wish I could help them out, but there's just nothing to be done.
They'll have to make the best of it.

littlestep

I got a few BAD boys that can help them out!!

pyrgirl

littlestep

Hahaha..P..I will not tell trooper..or he will like you NO more

Joyce

Speaking of horse behavior, /why do you think my boys back their bottoms against the dog pin fence and Poop in the dog pin. They started doing this to feed the puppies or at least that's what I thought at the time. Now they do this towards the baby goats

I thought because the adult dogs wait for them to go and eat it, they thought the puppies were hungry?

Bet there's not an article on this

but I just wonder what they are thinking because I'm thinking about throwing up

pyrgirl

Joyce

That would be fun. Maybe they could teach the boys something a little more PRODUCTIVE & entertaining then what they've been doing!!

.... Productive may not be the right word

McBunz

Its a message to your dogs....."You are suppose to be guarding Us.
Hope you and your NEW little friends choke on these."