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Question

It wasnt a fighting argument just one of those laughable arguments but my friend was telling me that if you smash an egg on a horses egg it'll make them stop throwing their head around, but then she was wondering if, because the way the horse thinks it'll think it is bleeding could it be possible for a horse to be traumatized by thinking it was bleeding. I thought it was an interesting comment and wanna hear what you guys think of this?

Please dont be idiots and go Ahh Thats a Dum QUestion coz

1) It is just proving that you have no consideration to other members (which is probly why no one, like me is never on here anymore)

2) Your just going to get the same result when you ask a question like that.

3) It could jsut mean you dont know what ur thinking and are trying to be a smart@$$ when probably all your doing is reading other comments.

Thank you just thought i would like to share my thoughts =) And wonder what you guys think

Answer 1

I have heard of this method before, but I don&#039;t think it has been used in a LOng time, and I don&#039;t know for sure if it ever actually worked or not.  Personally, I would never try it because most often head tossing is a symptom of another problem, not a problem itself

Answer 2

If you smash an egg on a horses head it WILL make them think their head has just *cracked open* and is bleeding. Sure they will mostly be confused than convinced, but that is full of them thinking their head has been bashed but you are still riding and the horse is alive. That&#039;s enough to make a horse stop throwing their head, huh? It&#039;s a horrible old cowboy &#039;trick&#039;, just like riding with a dressage whip right above their head. And tying their head to their chest.

All in all, this is faaaar from a stupid question.

Answer 3

It is supposed to be a cure for horses that rear. It&#039;s an old remedy and I have never tried it. I have no idea if it would work or not but either way you would be stuck with cleaning egg off your horses head ( which would be nasty to say the least.

Answer 4

Lots of people say that doing this cures horses of bucking or rearing (I can&#039;t remember which).  I have never tried it, so I can&#039;t comment on whether it works or not.  If I were guessing, which is what you are asking us to do, then I would think it might traumatize the horse depending on how sensitive that individual horse is.  Now, a horse doesn&#039;t know that it is blood or whatever, so the emotional effect on a horse would not match that of a human.  We react emotionally to seeing the loss of our own blood.  And the whole theory that a horse will associate the consistency of an egg with it being blood is pretty much ridiculous, don&#039;t you think?  How would a horse know the consistency of blood?  When a horse rears or bucks, I use other training methods that are tried and true, and I haven&#039;t used this one since it never made any sense to me.So, what I think of it is that it is unlikely that the horse is traumatized for any reason other than having something dripping down it&#039;s head.

Edit....I am getting older, so I am not sure, but I think someone tried this in my past experience....not me...but someone else.  And I&#039;m remembering that it didn&#039;t work for whatever it was supposed to do.  I&#039;m thinking it was to cure rearing.

Answer 5

Hey, I have a friend with a youngster, from the word go, he seemed to enjoy rearing up (a lot), especially when asked to go forward during backing and breaking, it got quite dangerous when she started taking him on the roads and a few times she has fallen off backwards due to the fact that young horses are not balanced, she was concerned that he was going to tip himself over, she tried all of the usual methods, pushing him forwards, having someone on hold onto his head with a lead rope to hang on if he went up but nothing worked, she tried smashing an egg in between his ears, it worked, I do believe that they think its blood, he has never tried it since,not even gone to do it, I am sure you would have the same effect with him throwing his head about, as long as you have previously tried to correct the behaviour before so he already knows you dont like him doing it, wait until the very second he does it so he doesnt get confused with another behavior that he thinks he is doing wrong, I hope it works for you, I would only advise this in very severe cases and as a last resort as it isnt nice but if you have tried everything else, give it a go, good luck xx

Answer 6

Ahh Thats a Dum QUestion

lol

Answer 7

Eggs are better than the beer bottle the guy down the road uses!  

Answer 8

You know, I suppose it&#039;s possible if you totally just thrashed the egg against its forehead, but if it was just gently cracked, I don&#039;t think the horse would be traumatized, because horses don&#039;t seem to really care if they&#039;re bleeding, but only about a)a terrifying experience leading up to it, and b)pain related to the bleeding. If those could be avoided, I think it would just be distracted...we all know that horses usually can only focus on one thing, which is why this method might be effective (haven&#039;t tried it myself)...for example, skin twitches are super effective in keeping the horse from moving around (one of the kids&#039; ponies got loose while being crosstied and started trotting  away, so I latched onto a pinch of skin as he passed me, and he stopped dead in his tracks...which is good because he is STRONG). Anyway, so things like that just occupy their brains, stopping some annoying habits without the need to actually inflict any pain really.

Interesting though!

Answer 9

I have heard this before...and funnily enough, at a show  this weekend , someone said to me they had seen it work on a confirmed rearer. They did it once and that the horse in question never went up again.

Answer 10

This is an old method that was used to try and cure a horse of rearing.

Nowadays we know rearing and headshaking can have a multitude of causes and before such methods are used all other reasons or possible causes should be ruled out first.

It&#039;s true the horse will think it has hit its head on something above.

Answer 11

It wont think it&#039;s bleeding. A horse doesnt care if it bleeds it cares if it is in pain. If it feels something crack on its head and ooze out it wont think ahh! im Bleeding! Im gonna die! It will think what the heck is on my face, and probably think eww! this is really gross and uncomfortable! but horses arent squeemish they dont care about blood! they care about pain and comfort. So while the horse wont be panicing and thinking it is going to die it will think wow eww i dont like this get this off of my head! Those thoughts often signify discomfort! That was a funny question! I dont mean it in a mean way just stating! It was fun to answer!