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Wollowing horses
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03/16/09
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I was just wondering if other horses wollow in mud and in water like mine do.
It all started with my grey mare Cha Cha about 5 years ago, we heard a lot af splashing in the dam and wen we went to investigate we saw her pawing in the water this went on for a few weeks but slowley she got futher into the dam and started stamping her back feet aswell.
This trait started to rub off on the other horses with her.
About a month after she started splashing we herd a sound like waves breaking on the shore, so off we trot to the dam to see a great big muddy horse rolling in the dam.
This became a daily ritual usualy rolling but sometimes just splashing.
And now she has trained at least 8 other horses to splash or roll in the water like her, the trouble is that they also like to roll in mud wen they can find it and that takes some getting off. They mostly have troughs now so only get to roll in puddles wen it rains.
I am just wondering if other horses do this because i have never seen them rolling in a dam before, i think that it started out as a way to get cool but now it is just habit.
Cha Cha is a quater horse Irish sport cross of 16.2 hands.
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To gain her trust
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03/12/09
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Hi to all,
Just a little about me first I'm an country boy born and bred from Australia worked with animals all my life and horses the last 10 years.
I start a few horses for other people and now have a young filly to work with she looks a bit over 2 but came off a property running wild in a herd and aren't sure of her age, the trouble is she had some verry rough treatment before she came to me and as souch she is afraid of being touched and having ropes put on her.
I have halter broken her but to catch her first up i had to put her in a race because she would not let me touch her even after about 6 hours of trying to gain her trust.
Now she will lead and i can pat her all over and pick up her feet but i can sense that she still doesn't fully trust me.
I need to move past this before i start to saddle her.
I don't know all of wat hapened to her but i lerned that she was injured and lost a lot of blood from the cut and also was flogged to exhaustion and near collapsing from loss of blood and traumer.
I am not experienced with horses that have been treated so cruely and don't now how to get to her fully , most people would think that she is just a bit shy now but i now that it is old wounds that keep her reserved because she warms to the touch on her neck and will bend her head around and enjoy it but will not totaly trust me as yet.
Well i expect to get some usefull replies here from wat i have read there is a good bit of knowledge floating around.
Thanks
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