A little secret about equines

I know that some of you will refuse to believe this, but ....

Two years in a row, with dead elk being butchered in my yard, when the horses and mules are turned loose they lick up the blood and eat bits of meat. I have personally observed all of the equines do this. This year the hunters left a skinned elk head that had the cranium sawed off to detach the antlers.... Paisley, the Canadian warmblood, was chewing on its muzzle. They pay little attention to the elk leg bones the dogs have scattered around the place.

You can hold on to the fallacy that horses are strictly herbivorous, but just as a dog eats grass sometimes, a horse will eat flesh.

The equines are not afraid of the bodies, the hides, the meat, etc. The equines don't have any assumptions about being next in line for the butchers knife. They get excited about the smell at first, but it is nothing like fear or panic. After two years, maybe they are anticipating an exotic meal?

Yrs,
Patricia