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Found 151 matches for aggression aggressive. Showing results 1-30, best matches first.

1(non-aggressive) Nipping Stallion
The Morgan stallion we recently purchased has issues - he bites. He doesn't seem to be doing it out of aggression. If you turn your back on him in the round pen - he will bite you in the back. If you are leading him - he will reach down to try and bite you. If you are brushing him he may turn to bite you.

2Horse Bites Baby's Foot
I visited my horse with my infant son for the first time this weekend. I introduced them and everything was fine. I asked a friend to take our picture standing next to my horse and he bit my son’s foot. He has NEVER been aggressive...

3Aggressive towards other horses
She is currently pastured at our neighbor's with his two 2 year old mares. The problem is that she tends to corner the other horses and kick them, especially when it is time for them to come into the barn. At first her aggressiveness was mostly ...

4Stallion with aggressive behavior at me
I’m taking care of horses for my mothers' best friend. She’s really pretty new at it and only has them because her friends do. She has a stallion that is well, not too old but he’s not my horse and I’m not sure of his age. But he backs me into...

5Problem with a stallion
I have a 5 year old stallion. He has been in the back field with 4 mares for 60 days. I pulled him out and put him in an adjacent field with one of the same mares that did not take. The fence line is secure with electric fencing. He immediately became very aggressive...

64 year old thoroughbred bites and herds pasture mate.
He has for the past 4 weeks progressed into an aggressive bully, biting, and racing then herding the little guy around. We have had to separate them for obvious reasons, and we want to train Winstton that biting is...

7Bucking troubles!
I'm the owner of a beautiful black and white pinto 3 yr old gelding. He has such a great personality, but he's a bit aggressive. I had him to a trainer recently that sent him home saying that he hasn't had a horse that bad in 5 years....

8Aggressive Geldings
I have a 15 year old Thoroughbred gelding named Big Jake who was gelded late in life and views himself a stallion. He is very smart and was brought to our home last year as the only horse.

9Aggressive squealing and kicking
My two horses get along with the other 3 horses in the bunch, but not the other mare. I rode my mare before I bought them and she really didn't want to leave the barn, but once away she did fine. At the first place I had them at she was hard to "catch"...

10Unpredictable horse
... She was broke to ride and trailer but she has always and still does have a very aggressive attitude. One minute you couldn't want a better horse and the next minute she pins her ears back tries to swing her hind quarters at ...

11Arabian/quarter horse mare
She backs up on me with her ears pinned back with aggressive attitude ... She bites me when I try to pet her and when I saddle her up ... She won’t stand still while I mount up....

12Aggressive Gelding
...The older gelding is a boarded horse. He constantly bites my mare and chases her around, and she has huge bite marks and chunks out of her. He is very tough and my mare knows it so she just runs away. But he chases her and bites her for no reason...

13Rearing in the stall and appreciation for your work
...He has a real problem with rearing in his stall. I don't know if he does this all night or just in the morning when I go out to feed but this morning when he did it my head was right by the bars of his stall and it gave me a good scare....

14Wire brush and new friends.
...My big imprinted baby boy Belgian is 8 months old and my boarding stable introduced him the next day to all 5 geldings and traumatized him. He has started to bite aggressively. Are they sort of responsible?....

15Bad biting in stall
...I am looking for help with a horse that has suddenly become a nasty biter in the stall. I have been riding this 5 year old gelding for 7 weeks to help out his owner who has a broken leg. When I first met the horse he was very sweet to handle both in and out of the stall...

16Gelding an older stallion
I have a 14 Years old stud pinto, ...I have been talking to other people and they said to geld and start riding him. Is this advisable? ...

17Stallion with an oral fixation
If my sallion gets something to chew on, i.e. the chain, rope, etc. he will stand quite, but I don't want to start this habit either. He is quite an oral horse and loves to have things in his mouth....

18Rearing Horse
...My friend has a young filly (three years old) that she is training. Usually when she is being ridden, at some point the filly rears up and takes a few steps on her back feet before returning all four feet to the ground. It doesn't happen all the time. . ...

19Stallion behavior question
...My real dilemma I guess is that he is turning two in May. He is my first horse as well as my first time even being around one as young. He's been saddled, bridled, and recently been sat on. Being fine with all of these the only thing that concerns me is this. He is usually very well mannered on the ground except for the occasional tifts when he feels he must break out into a frenzy...

20Should buy back a gelding I sold 2 years ago?
I am trying to evaluate if I should buy back a gelding I sold 2 years ago. He has become a behavior problem for the 13 yr old girl who owns him.

21Gaining Confidence With Horses
...Will a horse generally lunge or kick at you if you try to put a bridle on? I just purchased a bridle and have put it on him successfully twice, But over the rail, standing on platform, I am nervous about standing next to him. I am short and feel intimidated although I am strong. I don't want to scare him or hurt him. ...

22Skittish Colt
..I own a 9-month-old colt. He is very skittish in that in order to catch him, I must keep a halter and a 20 foot lead rope attached to the halter 24/7 which I know is an unsafe practice, but otherwise I'd spend hours trying to catch him. ...

23Rearing and Herd bound
..the last couple of times we rode I began asking Spring to go out on her own and she has shown her disapproval by rearing up and falling over backwards. Each time she has reared I make her walk around my pasture so she doesn't feel like she's succeeding in getting me off...

24Opinionated ex-racehorse
...he pinned his ears back, acted like he was going to bite me, and kicked out with his back foot. I scolded him so he raised his head really high and bit at the top of his stall and kicked the wall instead. ...

25Miniature Stallion Bites
...I always feed my miniture stallion treats from my hand. But even when i go to give him treats he tries to bite. I always used to walk him before he started biting, but once he started biting,....

26To geld or not to geld (2)
... should I gled them? I would like to keep both colts as stallions. If I chose to do this, would I need to prepare to separate them, at least during the breeding season? I have heard of stallions who were raised together getting along well after maturity but this has only been via third-parties.....

27Two year old biting gelding
The other day my 15-year-old daughter was brushing him and he turned his head and tried to bite her on the shoulder...Both of my daughters allowed him to lick their hands and fed him snacks from their hands... until I did a little research and now know better. Could this have caused him to start biting?

28Biting and more biting
When a horse is biting because they are testing the waters, what do you do?

29horse behavior: Jealous Mare
....I have a 6 year old mare-in-foal Belgian cross that sees me as just the person to bring her food to her and cater to her and wants me to leave her alone the rest of the time. She is due in August and I don't want her to act aggressive towards me when she has the foal.......

30Spooky Herd Bound Horse
....Last year I noticed that she started to be "spooky" when we rode. I would try to ride in the woods or in the tree nursery by the property that she is boarded on. ....(also she is herd bound)... I cannot get her more than three feet down the road to get to the trail. I tried today and she would not go. I tried to let her go at her own pace....



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