BlackStallion

You could do this by holding out your hand to a horse. Wait for the horse to come to you. If it blows warm air to your palm that means the horse wants to make friends with you.

Well, I think most horse owners already know about this. But does this characteristics all the same on horses?

dcrivers

Reading that reminds me I heard that somewhere before. I had forgotten it. It's nice to know horses don't play games like people do. You know where you stand with animals. No wondering if they like you for who you are and not what you have.

Thaworth

I never knew this, but I vaguely remember this happening to me when I first got Sandy. It was such a sweet thing to share a lifelong relationship with.

BlackStallion

Is it a good idea to place food in your palms in order for the horse to get near you? And what is the kind of food to attract the horses?

I see in movies that they place an apple on their hand and wait for the horse to come to them. When the horse came and eat the apple, the person could stroke the horse already. Is this true in real world or just in movies?

alexis

Speak for yourself, or alter that for horses only. My cats only love me when I have their cat food handy.

As for horses, I was maybe 12'ish?? and I fed my first horse. I had been horse back riding for school, and we were not allowed to feed them (I was age 10 then), but the horse that I did feed, scared the hoohaa out of me a little bit. Have you ever noticed when your a child, how big a horses head really is when your standing up close? I think after the horse took the food, I was still shaking minutes later. Good thing to get over that fear though, I have seen some people who could tell some really bad stories of trying to train horses (after rescuing them from bad owners) and the horse becomes very skeptical of anyone, and I have seen a chunk of someones back bitten from a horse - that I would not wish on anyone.

QuarterHorses

The movies drive me crazy! Please don't feed horses with your hand. It is VERY dangerous and you could loose a finger or get a damaged hand or fingers. I have seen this happen over and over again.

I know people want to feed carrots or apples to horses, so place the carrot or apple in a bucket. Then give the bucket to the horse. Of course people still will hand feed a horse even after being warned. So, when feeding a horse with your hand place the apple on the palm of your open hand, the present the apple. NEVER EVER give the apple with your fingers, please.

BlackStallion

That I don't know of. Thanks for giving us that really precautionary advice. I am an animal lover and if possible, I would like to feed them through my hands. With this information, I will surely stretch out my hand with the apple on top so no injury will occur to my hand.

SpiritWind

My grandpa taught me when I was very young to make my palm as flat as I could and actually try to curve my fingers out backwards so the most the horse could bite (assumign it didn't get my whole hand in it's mouth) would be my palm, and far far less likely to do damage.

crazyhorse

When I feed our horses, I always place them in a bucket. Sometimes I feed them hay holding the hay but I don't do it so often. I guess feeding a horse first time is really exciting. But when you do it all the time, just like me, you just get bored and place them in a bucket.