AVOID MEALTIME SQUABBLES

Food sustains all living creatures. As a result, it’s a highly motivating factor in many species’ behavior, including horses. Getting enough to eat is critical to horses’ physical and mental well-being. When horses live in a group, basic equine behaviors and the personalities of individual horses can complicate the eating process, causing disharmony, stress, and physical issues ranging from undernourishment to battle wounds. Here, we examine the concerns that may arise when you feed horses in a group, and how to resolve them.

NATURE’S WAY

In the wild, horses spend about 60 percent of their time foraging or grazing. Squabbles among groups of wild horses rarely arise over grass, as it’s usually