I am renting a house on a farm where they have alot of horses. I have a question about some behavior I noticed started recently I dont know if its the springtime getting warmer and making them frisky or what. Its a herd of 10 geldings, they havent been worked with in a long time and dont really get much human interaction exept an occasional person going into the pasture to see them, not much handling though. I noticed that recently whenever a person goes in the entire mood of the herd switches instantly from the normal lazy slowmoving to something like a swirling feeding frenzy; they all begin to do the whole laying back the ears and nipping/ kicking eachother and racing around in spurts of speed and generally acting so wild they are really likly to hurt the person- they dont have good manners as far as respecting personal space of a human and not bumping. almsot all of them have been trained under the saddle but they are so rusty that they need to be retaught even just being led. But I was wondering why they get so stirred up when a person goes in?

Is the person carrying grain, carrots, apples, etc? Or has any person ever brought in food or treats? They sound like a pretty typical large herd of horses with 'spring-fever', all clambering for attention and whatever it is they think the person has. Sometimes even generally well-mannered horses will forget their manners when outdoors in a herd, especially if food has ever been involved. Sounds like these guys are semi-feral.

haha semi feral would be a good assesment I think. they have been brought goodies before but during the freezing winter they didnt bother to get worked up...theyve started acting really frisky lately- racing around the pasture but theyve taken to be a bit more...aggressive about it, they used to at least not trample any humans when they got that way