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[Beekissed]

From everything I've read, that's about as right as I can understand. I'll be doing the same, hopefully this week. If we have messed it up, we'll know by spring, won't we?

 

[thistlebloom]

Mary I thought you wanted to know what a horse smelled like? What you just spread around is a at least half of it.

 

[ninnymary]

Mary I thought you wanted to know what a horse smelled like? What you just spread around is a at least half of it.

Well that stinks!

Mary

 

[Smart Red]

No, @thistlebloom! What a whopper! I have never nuzzled the warm neck of horse and had the aroma of horse pooh assault my senses.

Granted, the horse pooh aroma is almost as fragrant as that of a dairy cow pooh, but that is not the smell of horse itself. Horse is warm and musky and warm and leathery and warm and, and, and just horsey. For all that I enjoy the value of horse pooh -- and really don't find the scent all that stinky -- I have never had the desire to stick my nose into a pile like I do in that pulse spot behind the soft curve of jaw just below the ear. Sniff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff, ah! Nothing like it.

 

[journey11]

You described it perfectly, Red!

 

[thistlebloom]

After having horses for 47 years I've had plenty of opportunity to whiffle them.
No, horse dung is not the preemminent aroma of horses, but it is a horse smell and occasionally one will roll in the odd pile, so if you stuck your nose in that warm pulse spot that's exactly what you'd smell.

 

[Smart Red]

Thistlebloom is no romantic. Or, perhaps I have been away from horses for too long.

 

[Beekissed]

I think they smell like hay! Hair and hay. LOVE the smell of horse.

 

[thistlebloom]

I may not be a romantic but I love horses and their aroma whichever way it comes across. There are several ways horses can achieve their "extra" fragrance. Probably the purest form is a horse pastured on grass where their coats can stay clean. A stalled horse will smell more like shavings or straw (given the stall is kept up). A horse living on a dry lot will be more dusty and if it's a small corral will tend to have more of that manure overnote to it's fragrance.

See? I really have sniffed a lot of horseflesh, not just being contrary.

 

[ninnymary]

Well I didn't know different things could affect the smell of a horse. You sure know your stuff Thistle!

But I still don't get what romance has to do with the smell of a horse.

Mary