I have a 1 month old foal who I have handled from birth imprinted him and loved on him in ears everything but when he is just out in the pasture he is standoffish but if you squat he might come over and when he does come over he will walk very quickly with a purpose....to bite, kick or rear up on me (or whoever is in the pasture)all in play but trying to not allow this without not makeing him more skittish is proving to be a problem I push him away he just comes back thinking I am playing so I pop him on the chest and then he will not come back to me but I dont want him to think this behavior is ok......thoughts here.......also when I try to walk up to him in the pasture he will just run away toss his head and kick his mother just stnads there as we play ring around momma when I touch him he will kick up at me or just run off.....BUT if you are 3' he will run over too you to knock you down and bite you? What shoudl I do will he out grow this ......here is another kicker once on halter he is FINE easy learner stood perfectly still his first clipping....fine on his feet and petting ties still great gentleman can rub all over him ears and even lead almost instantly so why does he act a fool off the lead? we do spend time just sitting out in the lawn chairs with him. We do not have a lot of foals a year so our basis for foal behavior at this age is relativity small I would love to think he will our grow this but all want to know others experiences.
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