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Favorite/ Least favorite horse related smell.

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#1 ·
Personally, I hate the smell of wet horse. It's as bad as wet dog-- ew!

But when their not wet, I love to just put my face on their neck and sniff-- normal horsey smell is so awesome! And leather... I always associate leather smell with horses.

What about you?
 
#2 ·
Some horses are fed with something that makes sh*t out of their poop. I have no problem with the manure smell (I pick mine every day), but piles from some horses smell awful (on parking lots or on trail).
 
#3 ·
I also love the smell of horse, especially my horse.. he smells different. And a nice different. I also like the smell of hay and manure.

I hate the smell of a barn that has poor grooming habits (and it's not their fault of course) but we visited an Andalusian breeding and training for high levels barn. Holy cheese it reeked, my nose burned so much. Usually when I smell horse urine (in the arena..) it smells like apple cider.. but this was terrible. It was like all the yuck was fermenting.. so gross.
 
#4 · (Edited)
Favorite
Smelling their necks.
LOVE the smell of leather, and I love to clean and oil my leather tack
LEAST Favorite
Thrush or old smegma. yuch!!!!
Really dirty stall.
Hate to mention this one, and hope you never have to smell it--when your old horse (one of mine lived to be 35 yo) passes away, and you end up waiting a few days for Animal By-Products to collect the body--AFTER I've removed the mane and tail parts for saving and future sobbing!!!--the smell can only be cleaned up with bleach.
 
#12 ·
I just plain love the smell of horse, like it seems everyone here does! LOL But I would have to say my truly favorite smells are saddle soap, good hay and that first whiff out of a fresh bag of grain. :D

Least favorites, thrushy hooves, smegma and OMG urine from a mare that is in heat! It get's so much more acrid and seems to go to ammonia in a matter of hours!
 
#15 ·
I love the smell of a dusty barn, horse sweat, shampoo, my friends bute powder, just horse in general.
I HATE the smell when your walking around brushing your horse, and they rip one right. in. your. mouth.
 
#17 ·
my friends bute powder
Me too but only the vanilla kind, citrus - ick! I probably shouldn't admit this but I have buted myself - at a show, had a gnarly headache and nothing to take....

My favorite smells - leather is # 1 hands down, absorbine, show sheen, jojoba oil.

Least favorite - smegma, wet horse.
 
#18 ·
I'm going to have to agree with CCinSc... a draining abscess is the absolute worst thing I have ever smelled come out of any animal.. and I have a lot of animals! The best is burying my face into Milo's mane.. that smell is heaven, kinda partial to the smell of leather as well.
 
#20 ·
My favorite smell has to be the smell of new leather. Whenever I get new tack (and I get my new zebra tack tomorrow so I am going to be in heaven) I spend a decent amount of time just smelling it. That seems weird to some, but I looovveee it.

My least favorite is the smell after I've picked out very dirty hooves or after a horse has been shoed. That's an awfully rotten smell.
 
#26 ·
I, personally, don't have not an issue with the smell of smegma..All the geldings I've ever cleaned have smelled like strong peach... XD

Favourite: Just the barn. A decently (not even greatly) kept barn smells awesome. The general horse smell is nice too..especially while grooming, unless you hit a patch where they rolled in a straight pile of crap..but otherwise, good. :p
Most disliked: Horse urine. It is the MOST absolutely DISGUSTING, repugnant scent I have -ever- smelt. Ever. It smells like a sh!t ton of ammonia, and it's horrid. I hated cleaning the run-in or the stall when Tunie was in it, because I guess being 17h, she peed a ton more than the rest of the horses. I swear she peed (pees, actually lol) enough for 5 horses.. ;-; Horrid, I tell you!!!
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#28 ·
I love the smell of horse necks... they could bottle it and i would buy it! And leather ( Yankee Candle makes a leather scent one.. I own 4 of them right now...)
Least favorite... the smell of the hooves when the farrier is trimming them.. ugh. ( although the barn dogs love the trimmings... dog candy!)
 
#31 · (Edited)
I always thought I was weird for enjoying certain horsey smells! Glad it's not just me! Non-horse people just don't understand. :3

Favourites:
- Nice horsey smell of their necks
- Leather
- Certain kinds of fly spray (weird, right?)
- Clean, well-kept barn smell (fresh shavings and horse shampoo mmmm!)

Worst:
- Thrush foot (yuck!)
- Really gross stalls (like when the messy percheron pees a crater through the shavings and tramples EVERYTHING into a nasty muck... and I get to clean it >B[ )

I love the smell of horse necks... they could bottle it and i would buy it! And leather ( Yankee Candle makes a leather scent one.. I own 4 of them right now...)
Least favorite... the smell of the hooves when the farrier is trimming them.. ugh. ( although the barn dogs love the trimmings... dog candy!)
Does it really smell like leather? :O I know Yankee makes the best but if so that's awesome!
 
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