New Herd, New Pasture

Winter in Perth, 2008. An offer we couldn't refuse for our horses - 100 acres plus of hilly pasture to run on!

Presence of Heart is a 2yo Buckskin Quarter horse, her friend is a rescued Thoroughbred mare, Save Equus Pepper. They met the resident geldings, elderly Rocky & Chevy, both Standardbred's, soon after we let them loose.

The greeting and herd behaviour is delightful to watch. Presence had never seen terrain like it, having been born on a flat 5 acres. Please feel free to comment your observations about the herd and their language. We will respond, and will answer questions.

...and we know the dog is annoying, LOL!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Horse
• Herd
• Natural
• Simple Minds
• Horsemanship
• Alive & Kicking
• Equine Behaviour
• Non-verbal communication
• Horses
• Ponies
• Buckskin
• Thoroughbred
• Standardbred
• Quarterhorse
• Chittering
• Western Australia

[BridlePath977]

you have amazing pasture! Where do you live? Its so beautiful!! and the horse complete the scenery. :)

[Horseplay71]

@BridlePath977 This was filmed in Chittering, Western Australia. Winter. XJ

[Horseplay71]

@MissHeatherAnn1 Horses can tell we are predators because we are upright creatures, our eyes are on the front of our head rather than the sides, and of course our scent, a mixture of all we ingest and where we live. Your scent may not repel a horse, but your way of being around him might. XJ

[Horsingabout1]

Time everyone with horses did something along these lines for their charges instead of keeping them in solitary. The groundswell for better horse welfare is welling up.

[MissHeatherAnn1]

@Marenlene Someone once told me that a horse knows I'm a predator because he can smell that burger I had last night

[chiack82]

that was beautiful. thanks for the upload.

[Marenlene]

Thanks for that comprehensice answer, that's very interesting! By the way, I am on the other side of Australia, I live close to Brisbane :-)

[Hor5emanship]

Research proves horses have a keen and efficient sense of smell. Especially necessary when you are prey! I'm sure they notice whatever you smell of, but their response will vary taking all things into consideration. For example if I smell of a dead animal (because I buried a bird I found dead. I don't kill animals, nor do I eat them) my horses are inquisitive and sniff the parts of me that smell of the putrification, but are unafraid. However, I've seen them baulk at an aggressive butcher!

[dannypantsgm]

They look majestic!

[Marenlene]

that is very interesting to watch - I was just thinking about how important smell is for horses...I mean they sniff at each other...so what happens if I change my washing powder and smell different? Will they notice and care?