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Why do horses smell so bad?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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Mistrykid

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12y ago

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With their nose, of course! If a horse catches a whiff of something that is new to them, they will flip their top lip back towards their nostrils to get a better scent of it off of their muzzle. Sometimes they will rub some dirt on their muzzle and use this technique to smell something new.

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13y ago

The smell...is basically just sort of a normal fart smell, I don't know lol hard to describe, but they are herbivores and you can sort of tell the plant smell, but bad.

And yeah, they pump out a lot, so watch out if one lifts it's tail and you're in an enclosed space! My most personal experience of horse farts a few years back at my friend's stable, this one mare I was walking past behind her and stopped to check my phone; I swear this horse timed it perfectly I saw the tail go up out of the corner of my eye and stupidly turned towards because I noticed the motion; BIG puff of air right in my face, mouth open a little, AWFUL like this was a gust of WIND for about 4 seconds, and I was so stunned I don't know I couldn't move haha. I had to take a shower and really scrub after too; that fart smell stuck to my skin and hair and clothes really strongly. :/ Basically, I got skunked by a horse.

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If the horse is healthy and is properly cared for he should not have a bad odor at all. For horse lover's, myself included, the smell of a horse is wonderful. It may be that you are just not used to horses. For lifelong equestrians the mild fragrance of our horses is a little bit of heaven on earth.

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