Comments on: Death by Emu

By: Haley

Haley — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:29:12 +0000

My horse used to live in the same pasture with emu’s… They aren’t any scarier than a deer or cow. It’s all about what the individual horse has been exposed to.

By: karen

karen — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:26:53 +0000

I can relate to this, only its rhino and giraffe in our neighbourhood. However, its the horse-eating guinea fowl dropping from an overhead cable that can turn my docile boy into the most agile horse ever seen

By: Ronni

Ronni — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 08:01:32 +0000

Am emu recently showed up and made its home in and outside of my back pasture. Horses not initially pleased, but I think/hope they will work it out.
I like the dude!!!!!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:50:17 +0000

My neighbor has pet deer. The horses always get freaked out by them. We don’t go that way very much anymore.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 13:26:14 +0000

I haven’t seen anything too crazy while trail riding, but the crazy owner of the farm where I work recently decided it would be cool to get some alpackas. Almost all the horses are afraid of those things. They don’t spook at them, but kind of slow down and stop…and it becomes a stare off.

By: CINDY HALE

CINDY HALE — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:50:15 +0000

COWS? YOU’D THINK THERE’D BE MORE COWS IN MY TOWN, SINCE SO MANY OF THE RIDERS OUT HERE SEE THEMSELVES AS COWBOYS/COWGIRLS. BUT THERE AREN’T. SO I’M GUESSING THE LOCAL TRAIL HORSES WOULD BE SURPRISED AT FIRST BY COWS, TOO.
I AGREE THAT IT’S OFTEN THE RIDERS WHO TENSE UP AND THEREFORE MAKE THE HORSE WARY OR SCARED, WHICH LEADS TO A BIG SPOOK. IF THE HORSE YOU’RE RIDING LOOKS TO YOU AS THE ‘HERD LEADER’ AND YOU ACT AFRAID, THEN IT’S SORT OF NATURAL FOR THE HORSE TO THINK IT’S TIME TO FLEE.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:30:37 +0000

Very interesting! Good grief, the Emu is really ugly. I don’t blame the horses for spooking.

By: Horselover

Horselover — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:55:41 +0000

interesting story.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:28:52 +0000

I’ve gotten lucky. TJ a horse I love to pieces isn’t affraid of much. He was started as a trail horse at 3-4 years and lives on a ranch that has a small petting zoo of exotic or just strange animals. Water buffalo, emu, deer, you name it they have it. Though it’s usually the riders that freak out thinking that the horses are going to spook….the ranch hands love to give tours of the petting zoo on horseback just to watch the riders freak out 😉

By: Lorie

Lorie — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:39:37 +0000

I love your blogs! Our horses are afraid of cows so I can’t imagine what they would do if they saw an emu. The most exotic creature we’ve come across was a Crawdad and it was so dirty that it resembled walking poop so the horses weren’t too concerned.