Dafner tends to have her ears pinned flat to her head. Not completely down, but still quite clearly so. This was much worse when I just got her, she used to have them down pretty much all the time, now we've gotten to about half the time
But I haven't been able to figure out what it means. She will do it when I make a sudden movement, when I enter her stable at times, when I ask her for a trot, when she reigns (although she comes down with her ears pointed forward towards me again), when she walks beside me..so it does not appear to be pain related.
Nor do I think it's protesting - she does everything I ask of her, stays with me, comes to me..I don't think she'd do that if she hated doing it so much, right?
But I would like it to change, if only for the sake of pictures if nothing else. :P
Will this just take more time? Do some horses just naturally have that behaviour, and could I just make it a cue to have her ears forward (:P)? Or can it be a sign that something
is going on? (although I have no idea what that something could be)