This might sound CRAZY

[83Tucks]

Has anyone ever had a horse with pasture preference?

I have a new horse at our farm and everytime I try and turn her out in the front pasture she paces the fenceline. It does not matter what horse she is out there with and it does not even matter if all the horses on the farm are out there with her she paces the fencline in this pasture? I have turned many horse out on that pasture and they have all been happy to graze and hang out in the trees, this is just such a strange senario she is fine in the other pastures on the property but not that one? Has anyone got any ideas as to what could cause her to be so uncomfortable in there? Like I said it does not seem to be an issue of lonliness she really just does not like that pasture???

Thanks

[jaimebaker]

It might be not that she's uncomfortable in that pasture, but she wants to be in one of the other ones. I have a stallion and gelding that I lock into a smaller pasture every other day. Once the grass begins getting grazed down really short, I notice that every evening they begin pacing the fence line looking out into the larger pasture. If I give them a few days in the larger pasture so that the smaller one has a chance to slightly recover, they stop pacing. As soon as it gets grazed down again, they start pacing again. There's actually a lot of grass in the small lot, mostly fescue. But they hate it and will not eat it. They'd rather be on the bigger pasture that has a bit of clover in it.

There's no horses in the larger pasture or even in that direction where they look when they pace, no reason for them to be pacing other than they just want to be out where the better grass is.