Hi Trish, >This is about all the activity they did, twice a >day. Almost from the time they arrive they disperse, and through >dominance behavior, become absorbed into various hierarchies. Movement >becomes relatively stationary
I am just a bit unclear. Did he observe that once the horses were fed hay they just stopped moving the formed their food hierarchies? I wonder how large the space was. It is interesting because we have about 60 geldings in one area and 40 mares in another and we feed hay off of a truck during the winter. Who eats where varies and you couldn't say it had anything to do with a herd hierarchy because it changes and our horses move around quite a bit while they eat and sometimes just race around at feeding time and then find different piles. Having not read the book I can only ask questions but I wonder if the area was quite small that the horses were kept in if it was a feed lot situation so there wasn't a lot of place too move and not much to do. I think that maybe the less room you give animals and the smaller the group the more of a hierarchy that develops.....? Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/622 - Release Date: 1/10/2007 2:52 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
