Is it just Colorado Horses that eat trucks?

[sicero]

The wife and I got to shoot some prairie dogs in Colorado this year.

We camped and shot in a section that had a couple horses pastured.

They always come around to visit where we set up to shoot and would

leave when we started shooting.

I always park the truck back some, hidden some if possible, since the

prairie dogs we shoot don't like shiny trucks.

The second day I saw them messing around the truck and when we went

back for dinner I noticed a lot of scratches in the paint on the hood.

Teeth marks no doubt. Glad my truck is an 02.

If you have a newer truck, consider yourself warned.

I have been around horses most of my life and have not seen that before.

We stopped to talk to a rancher east of Denver.

He showed us his hunting truck. A Chevy station wagon with a camo paint

job and padded rifle rests full length on both passenger side windows.

Yep He knew Colorado horses eat trucks.

He also knew just as he was about to fire on a long shot someone would

cough or decide to pick out his seat. Kenny

[Stevo]

Warning taken and stored for latter. I'm around Horses everyday. I will keep my Truck away from them for sure.

Besides Horses chewing on your truck how was the trip?

[Mike Casselton]

My 94 Chevy k1500 and my 95 Suburban both had many bite marks on the hood.
My late friend Tom Macdill of Custer, SD had bunches of Arabian horses. They loved to try and chew the paint.
Had to stop parking in their corrals when I went out to help him. Made for a lot of heavy loads.
Sadly, Tom passed away this spring at the young age of 96.
He was an Air Corps/Air Force veteran that got caught up in the Bataan Death March .
For those that like to read, Tom gave me a copy of a book and said it represented their time (and the atrocities) in Japan very accurately. The book title is Brothers of Bataan

[montdoug]

I've had a number of vehicles gnawed on by horses in my life. They'll scrape it to bare metal as you probably noticed Kenny! Back when vynal tops were in vogue I had one a them near shredded off a car overnight by the 17 horses we had that came through a left open gate and were all around the place the next morning. My future ex-wife of the period who was the last one through the gate the night before had absolutely no idea how it was left open cause she was positive she closed it . Only the 2 of us on the place and last time I checked I was plumb positive that not one a our horses had opposable thumbs.
Cows'r fond of licking em till the rig is slobber from one end to the other, way nasty!
The object on a ranch is to learn not to care how they look if they run good .

[Bill K]

When a horse and some other animals lack certain nutrients in their diet, for some reason they go after paint. Look around at corral fences and see how they chew on them. At least that is what I have been told over many years. Bill K

[sicero]

Stevo
The hail storm was a lot worse than the paint.

It doesn't show up on the truck that much, looked almost golf ball size.

About 10 mile away it was 2" and 30 mile it was big. They plowed the roads

with their snow plows.

I almost didn't renew the insurance on that old truck camper.

They totaled it and I had to put a new skylight in it and ignore the dents.

They add character to the rig. Kenny

[barretcreek]

Originally Posted by Bill K

When a horse and some other animals lack certain nutrients in their diet, for some reason they go after paint. Look around at corral fences and see how they chew on them. At least that is what I have been told over many years. Bill K

True. Friend was boarding his horse and the 'landlord' sent him a bill for the horse chewing the fence. Vet told him it was cause the horse was being shorted on good feed.
P.S. For those of you driving newer vehicles, the wiring harnesses are made of corn based plastics. Yummy to rodents. I have been spraying cedar oil on my equipment and it deters the little politicians.

[Silverfox]

Never had horses chew on my vehicles, but like montdoug, I have had lots of cow slobber all over my pickup.

[Bayou City Boy]

Automotive paints and waxes are both mineral based, including silicates. Hence cows lick and horses bite in an attempt to get to the minerals obvious to them on vehicles.

I wonder if different colored paints all taste the same to Trigger....?

-BCB

[ray h]

Not a horse but groundhogs will chew on them ''corn'' (?) based wire harness.