They had to walk through the piggery to get to the paddocks. Wild hogs are dangerous and unpredictable animals. If they have been around feral hogs they will be doubly afraid. I have never seen that. Image Source. While they don't hunt like wolves, they will eat meat, even live meat if it is presented to them. Other than the lovely day when their "guard dog" tried to kill the pigs while I was riding, none of the horses have minded the pigs. According to Stewart, she “hates them.” The fear of horses is a phobia … Expose your horse to it daily. The farm had a bridlepath leading right past it, every horse in the area was pig proof. Go find those pigs! Often times horses are afraid of the smell of pigs rather than the sight. Your barn mates might not love you for it, but you could take things that smell of the pigs and put them where you horse can smell them so it becomes a normal fact of life. « Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 10:19:51 am » now sally that is not strictly scientific they are both on the same holding so relatively used to each other bring a strange horse on that has not been used to pigs then see the action The kids next door to where I board raise a litter of 4H pigs every year about 20 feet from the arena. Deer will flee from feral hogs on site from two hundred yards away. Pet Talk is a service of the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University. Don’t be an avoidaholic. The farmer said that his horse had gotten into the habit of lifting the piglets up by their ears, tearing them right off. 1 decade ago. The horses know that, by nature, they are in danger of being eaten by pigs if they were to ever get trapped down by accident or old age. I used to keep horses on a pig farm, the horses used to run in the same fields as the pigs even. But remove that fence and I’m scared. Scared of Velcro? Horses evolved in a treeless open country with no buildings, where storms just blew across. Kristen Stewart: Equinophobia–Fear of Horses. For example if your horse is scared of pigs it would need to be desensitized to pigs in five different places before he would accept a new field of pigs without fear. Being creative types, we called them Wilbur, Wilbur and Charlotte. With the variety of horse-owners, horse-properties, and horses, planning before severe weather occurs should take into consideration the ability to keep everybody safe. Horses are scared of pigs for the same reason they are scared of wolves. The piglets used to play chase with the horses, and it WAS play, by horses and pigs. Our barn is downwind of a pig farm (yay /s) so all of our horses are cool with pigs. 10. Re: Who says horses are frightened of pigs? I've seen farm yards with mix animals and never notice the horse being intolerant. But if a horse is actually afraid to go in some place, and fights you if you try to lead him in there, the door opening might not be tall enough or wide enough, or he may not want to leave the other horses, and you might have to just make him go in there. If kept next to pigs it will eventually get used to them. Kristen Stewart, who is well-known for her roles in Twilight and Snow White and the Huntsman, possesses a fear of horses. By nature, pigs are carnivores. When I was a kid, we got 3 pigs from a local farmer to raise. Anonymous. War pigs are pigs reported to have been used in ancient warfare as military animals, mostly as a countermeasure against war elephants.. But I would be afraid to let horses and pigs run in the same pasture unless it was a really big pasture with plenty of room for them to keep away from each other, for fear the horses would accidentally run over the pigs, which aren't fast enough to … Horses are afraid of pigs. I never knew horses were deathly afraid of pigs. ABOUT PET TALK. In the first century BC, Lucretius noted that humans may have attempted to launch wild beasts, such as lions or "savage boars", against the enemy, but with catastrophic results. 1. 0 0. The two Wilburs only had 1 ear each. Meet your problems head on.