Curious horses

This week we started the forage pilot study, which is part of a honours students practical research work. Its only a small preference trial, but it will provide us with some valuable information for our later studies.

For this trial the student has to visit a number of horse properties and this week we started with the first two properties. The weather had been dry for the last 6 weeks but on the day that we wanted to start the trial – of course they predicted rain! So day 2 of the trial we spend most of the time in the rain with the horses.  Nevertheless, the horses preformed even in the rain and showed their normal curiosity to all the visitors and foods we brought in!