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Wtf is likely to bring about horse feeding behavior, in the mind of margo,…
Wtf is likely to bring about horse feeding behavior, in the mind of margo
Can be Affected by Diet
How often are they fed
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Horses want to be fed all day erryday but that's not always workable, so do they eat all their food fast and then lose their mind when they see another horse getting food when they're out of food?
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These can directly affect behavior and we can talk about what we see with these conditions and the overall patterns, like what I wrote about was that the horses had independent behaviors mostly but had some common behaviors like all excitedly vocalizing when the kubota came around. I suggested in my notes that the gray horses were the top of the pecking order, but what I didn't talk about is what we could do about that. I would honestly suggest spreading out the feed in the buckets more (if there is ever time for that lol) so that the dominant horses can have feed away from the more submissive horses to ensure they're getting food. At some of my barns, the feeding hay piles would be way apart from each other so the horses thought less of each other and more about their food, and it was easier to make sure that the lower end of the pecking order got enough food.
And I find it pretty interesting to say like these behaviors are common. We predicted they would do this because they're outdoor/indoors. And then here's the difference in what we saw. That's what the ethogram is supposed to help with, is knowing what we're looking at and how to think about it along with the variables that can affect their behavior, and in my mind, that's just the environment here. And I think we'd make it easier on ourselves to just talk about the environmental conditions + what is normal then what we saw and what we found notable in our study, good or bad. Maybe + how we could see a change in behavior.