Funny things foals do...

[Samotis]

My weanling did this today, thought it was funny...

I was cleaning his stall and run when he decided to bug me. I shooed him away and he caught me with a little nip on my arm. (of course the soft underside of my arm) I screamed no and then forked him good in the hiney with the pitchfork. He leaped up cantered a circle and then fell on the ground, rolled got back up and just looked at me!

Totally looked like mid canter he decided to take a short roll, but I think it was more of a little temper tantrum because I forked him one!:lol:

Wish I had it on video.

[Jay-N-Jete']

Hehe -

Today, my the farrier used nippers for the first time on my weanling (weaned 1 week!)

She tried bucking her butt...didn't work.
She tried sinking to the ground...didn't work...farrier just worked on her on the ground.
So she leapt forward, striking out and knocked herself in the chin with her front hoof. (Didn't work, either!)

She stood for the other 3 feet like an old, deadbroke pony!! :lol:

Funny thing is - this baby is quiet and sensible - to have her buck and plunge even once was a bit of a surprise!! She just didn't appreciate the pressure of the nippers.

[VirginiaBred]

Well, mine will be 6 months old Nov. 1st and gets weaned the following Saturday. His new "thing" is leading his mother in and out to the pasture. I put their halters on and *try* leading one in each hand, but NO-o-o-o-o.......he has to put his mother's lead rope in his mouth (not chewing, just holding) and starts walking to where we're going.:lol: Does it every time for about 2 weeks now! I'm left holding his lead rope! What a kind hearted soul, trying to help me that way!

[AppJumpr08]

My almost 5 month old plays "facies" with the beef critter next door to his paddock. "Bacon" (future steak on the hoof) sticks his head through the fence, and Fred bites him on the nose. Fred sticks his face through the fence, and Bacon butts him back. This goes on for ten to twenty minutes at a time - I've got to upload a video of it - leaves me cracking up every time :lol::lol:

[Samotis]

When Ace was 2 days old he went out in the pasture for the first time. Obviously he didn't have great leg coordination.

That didn't stop him from running full speed and jumping over a wood burm. And preceeding to tumble and fall flat on his face! Now that I have on video. He got up and walked up to the burm and just looked at it like, "well I thought I calculated that jump, what happened?":lol:

Now that he is older and and much more mature;) he scopes out the jump possibilities in the ring and then picks up the canter and jumps whatever he thinks would be fun. I can't seem to get it on video because you never know when he will do it. He just starts to canter and heads for a jump!

[Samotis]

Here is a picture of him at 2 days rethinking the burm jump:lol:

[JGHIRETIRE]

ROFL - they are SO cute at that age!!!

[lilypondlane]

My then 6-month old colt grabbed the barn broom in his teeth and stuck it through the feed window of his 2-year old sister's stall, waving it around and generally terrorizing her. My friend's 3-month old colt once picked up a lunge whip with plastic bag attached (we had been preparing him for his first in-hand class) and with the whip handle in his teeth, chased his yearling filly babysitter around the ring with it. Filly was not amused.

[kmp2707]

Mine wasn't really funny, could have been a distaster, but at 2 months old my colt tried to wean himself one night by jumping into an unoccupied stall. The stall has a double dutch door that opens into his paddock and the top portion was open.

I came out the next morning. Mom was grazing outside, peacefully, colt was whinnying, but really not too frantically. He crashed the door pretty good and I couldn't get it open, so brought him into the barn from the inside stall door. I let his mom in the aisle too from the stall they were suppose to be using (free access) and poor girl was just a-streaming milk like crazy while he got a drink.

Thankfully all he had were superficial scrapes on his lower legs. The stall door on the other hand is trashed. I am suprised he didnt try to jump back out and am thankful that he wasn't seriously injured.

[Samotis]

I have heard of the babies laying down and rolling to the other side of the stall too! We put rubber mats on all the sides just so that wouldn't happen!:lol:

Ya, some of the funny things babies do could also easily have been disasters!

Today my guy ate a rubber glove. I heard him chewing on something and he had grabbed it out of the wash rack. I had to gag him with a sweat scraper to get the darn thing out!

Now that could have been a disaster. Darn babies:eek:

[ThreeDays]

We had a cute one this past summer.

We raised our first orphan foal. So the foal was very bonded to us. During the day we would have to run out to the field to offer milk feedings out of a bucket. So of course the foal looked forward to these encounters.

In the evening my husband and I sit on the porch and watch the horses graze out in the field. The orphan was alway very curious about what we were doing just sitting there.

So one evening we watched the foal try so hard to come join us on the porch. She tried to mimic the way I climb through the fence when I would go out to the field to feed her.

She put her head through the rail then tried to put one front leg then one hind leg through the fence to 'climb through'. Of course she couldn't figure it out but it was very cute watching her try to mimic the way 'people' climb through the fence. :lol:

[classicsporthorses]

Our foals are a constant source of amusement (althought at the times of the antics sometimes it's not funny)

When John Henry was born in July of this year he managed to roll out of the pasture where is was with his mom. My daughter and I rush down there, now he is about 2 days old, I go to get mama and get a halter on her to bring her to him (he's in our grass aisle between our pastures. My daughter goes to get him. He TAKES OFF. It's amazing the speed those buggers have.

I am now running next to my mare putting her halter on her, so she does not go through the fence. I manage to get her out and we try to get JH. Nope off he goes. At one point he flies up into a weedy area, me and mama hot on his tail, he falls down. I could have jumped on him but the mare, whom I am was running with and holding onto, is in the way. He gets up and I managed to grab his tail as he takes off again!

All three of us are bounding through these very tall weeds, nettles, prickers. JH is in the lead and I am not letting go of his tail (or the mare). My daughter watching in amazement seems me moving as fast as that foal and finally he stops. I thought I would drop a lung at this point.

I dropped the lead of the mare and encapsulated the foal. We all walk back together calmly. We put them in our round pen until DH came home to fix the fence. He learned to halter and lead from a very, very early age after that episode.

We have a filly who likes to eat the hay out of the water trough. Slurp, slurps she goes getting every bit of wet hay.

Her full sister, who has since moved onto her new home, played with the automatic waterer in her stall so much she flooded the stall! They had to reset the waterer.

[nsm]

So much of what my foals do is humorous long after the fact. Rule at 3 days decided to show us his jumping talent and proceeded to jump quite a few 3'3" jumps before we could get them down. He did not jump them because they were in his way as so many do, he went out of his way to get to them. He was never let into a ring with jumps until he was 2 1/2 months, I figured at 4'3"-4'6", he would not bother, how very wrong I was, he bee lined for the biggest widest oxer out there, as it was a foot over his head and 5 feet wide I almost fainted, he made it, how I don't know, ticked the back rail though, it was amazing. So then really truelly no jumps for him-ever. So one day in a totally empty ring, with only one thing in it, a tall directors chair, yes-- of course, he made a point to jump it.
He had a Felix Unger streak as a child, he had 2 little jolly balls, baby sized, a blue one and a green one, and I guess he needed to pick up his toys because every morning, the green ball was in his water bucket and the blue one was in his feed bucket.
Nancy