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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.

2Horses are crankly when being blanketed
...Some of the horses are cranky about having their blankets being put on. They pin their ears, bite the bars of their stalls and swish their tails when I put the blankets on them. The horses are really nice with almost everything else. One of the horses throws his head when the girth is put on....

3Horse puts his ears back and nips
I have a horse that puts his ears back when I come around and on occasions has tried to bite me. He is a young (4) TB. How can I work with this behavior?

4Nippy gelding
We have 2 horses, a 3 year old gelding and a 7 year old mare. The mare loves to be brushed but when I try to brush the geld he nips at me and or walks away, I have tried not using the brush and just petting but it...

5Horse 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...

6Nipping Yearling Colt
I have a yearling colt, who has developed the annoying habit of trying to nip when head stalling to take off night rugs and doing any thing that has to do with his head. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can stop this. I try and ...

7Do you really need a stallion?
I have a 10 month old colt that is about 13 hands. He has not yet been gelded. I have been having problems with him of which includes: he tries to bite me and rear up when I lead him around, and he is really pushy....

8Biting, Please Help!
My daughter has a 3 week old male foal. He loves attention and is fine with being handled (legs, ears, feet, head are no problem) BUT he has started BITING allot – her several times his sister in the next pasture ...

9Perplexing Behavior (Mare mourning foal?)
Currently, I am very attached to an Arabian mare about 5 years of age who is exhibiting some strange behavior. Typically, she would follow me without a rein through the stables to the paddock where we would play and run around but recently ...

10Mare Behavior
You have said that mares are moody but you haven't said what to do about it as far as correcting pinned back ears and wanting to bite. My two year old mare is very well trained but she gets grouchy when I go in the stall...

114 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...

12My Nippy Horse
Do you think That Sinco the Nippy horse is too much for an 11 year old? He bucked me off and then bit my butt and now I have a bruise mark that is shaped like a mouth with a lot of teeth I think he is trying to be the leader and...

13Normal stud colt?
I have a 10 month old colt that is about 13 hands. He has not yet been gelded. I have been having problems with him of which includes: he tries to bite me and rear up when I lead him around, and he is really pushy....

14Cannot Trust Mare
We recently purchased a mare that is five months into foal, and the lady swore she had no bad habits. Wrong! When you go in the stall to feed her, she pins her ears back and acts like she is going to bite you....

15What to do with a nippy colt
my 3 month old colt sometimes nips me and I would like to know how to fix that. He has never actually "gotten me" but he has tried and he has actually bitten some other people. I volunteer out at a trail riding stable ...

16Arabian/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....

17Overcoming Fear (For Humans and Horses) & More fearful rider
...I bought a 7 yr old Appaloosa gelding .....I bought him because he represented a horse that was quiet yet young enough for me to hone my skills again. The first day he flew back when tied, but I attributed it to a new place. ...about two weeks later. he flew back again and stood shaking after breaking the line....

18Aggressive 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...

19My Cracker Horse is a real cracker
I have a problem with my 5 yo Cracker Horse. He is really spooky and head shy. Please tell me how to help him get over this problem

20Wire 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?....

21Kicking Colt
...since I‚ve been away at school, since august, and my foal has obtained a kicking habit. Every time I walk into the stall with him, he immediately turns his rear towards me, or who ever it is that is walking in the stall...

22Bad 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...

23Stallion 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....

24Stallion 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...

25Ex-racehorse challenges
...I got my horse in August. He had come out of racing with a tendon injury. They also think he had laminitis in the foot due to the trauma. By the time I got him he was being turned out and was still slightly lame. ..

26Threading the head through the hole
I have trouble putting the filly's blanket on her after I groom her. I usually have the trainer's wife do it. The filly's head always raises back and high to avoid going through the head hole or coming out of it...

27Untouchable Horse
..She said if she goes to physically touch the horse, she can't get near him for he doesn't like to be touched by human hands...what measures would I have to take in order to work with this horse in order to train him to accept a humans touch on his body ...

28Hard to halter colt
..We have an a 8 month old connamara colt. (which we are going to geld). We have had him 4 months. The main problem with him is he bites the halter when we try to put it on, he holds on to it and we have to battle him for it. ...

29Meanie horse or not?
..I have a yearling colt that I am not sure of what to do with right now. When I go to clean his feet he pulls his feet away from me or will bite me. When I pet him he almost always bites. When he does something bad I slap him one and he gets all wild and won't get near me....

30Life or death for a dangerous horse
..I have a 7-year-old APP/QH gelding whos rebelliousness is very subtle. He will usually begin by moving in very slight ways just to get you off balance then if he is successful, he bolts and bucks you off. . ...



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