Reactive Behavior: anything a horse does to interact with its environment
- Find shelter, "socialize"
- Body Language
- Ears, eyes, nose, mouth, tail set, legs, headset
Ingestive Behavior: natural, eating, drinking, all day grazers
Eliminative Behavior: act of defecating (2-3 hrs) and urinating (4-6 hrs)
Sexual Behavior: courtship, mating, maternal behavior, mares in heat, mares more dominant in herds
Epimeletic Behavior: care-seeking and care-giving behavior, grooming each other, vocalization after separation
Agnoistic Behavior: Dominance, Flight or Fight, horses view humans as predators
Herd Behavior: like being in groups, dilike being separated from others, (herd bound)
Pecking Order: Where do you stand in the herd?
Mimicry Behavior: Copycat behavior (colts with mares)
Investigative Behavior: Curiosity, learning
Grooming Behavior: Self grooming, grooming each other (socialization)
Sleeping and Rest Behavior: Horses sleep standing and lying down
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS NORMAL SO WE KNOW WHEN IT ISN'T NORMAL
Anatomy Influences Behavior
Vision and Hearing: Blindspots are directly in front of them, directly above them (their back), and directly behind them. Their eye placement is for grazing and because of their prey animal behavior, alarm noise= high pitch and loud noise, Calming Effect= lower pitch
Understanding these and using them to understand how to move around a horse will keep you and the horse safe. Getting kicked, knocked over, bitten, etc. can be avoided. Another thing to understand is reading the body language of the horse which I will go over in a later post.
Thanks for reading! Hope you find this helpful!
God Bless and have a good day!
Andrea
Herd Behavior: like being in groups, dilike being separated from others, (herd bound)
Pecking Order: Where do you stand in the herd?
Mimicry Behavior: Copycat behavior (colts with mares)
Investigative Behavior: Curiosity, learning
Grooming Behavior: Self grooming, grooming each other (socialization)
Sleeping and Rest Behavior: Horses sleep standing and lying down
WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS NORMAL SO WE KNOW WHEN IT ISN'T NORMAL
Anatomy Influences Behavior
Vision and Hearing: Blindspots are directly in front of them, directly above them (their back), and directly behind them. Their eye placement is for grazing and because of their prey animal behavior, alarm noise= high pitch and loud noise, Calming Effect= lower pitch
Understanding these and using them to understand how to move around a horse will keep you and the horse safe. Getting kicked, knocked over, bitten, etc. can be avoided. Another thing to understand is reading the body language of the horse which I will go over in a later post.
Thanks for reading! Hope you find this helpful!
God Bless and have a good day!
Andrea
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