I found the original post! Learned a new bit of COTH lore as well.
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Yay!! Thank you for posting it! How on earth did you find it? I finally gave up. You did good!!
ETA: New Hollands are blue too! 
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I used the search function with the phrase “Rhode Islands are red” - quotation marks included so it would search the exact phrase instead of individual words. Took me a few tries to get the right phrase. It was bugging me too!
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I also thought it was p’Aint Misbehavin but a search for her didn’t work for me either.
Brava you!
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Rhode Islands are red;
North Hollands are blue.
Sorry my thoroughbreds
Stomped on your roo.
I copied it, so you can get the full poem.
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Thank you!
Fantastic! You found it! It was bugging me not to get the wording right (and obviously bugging @Rackonteur as well).
Rebecca
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I was pretty sure it wasn’t her, as I think she lived not too far from me and we messaged a bit. I wonder why she’s not around any more? She was very nice and very knowledgeable.
ETA: When will I ever learn to stop trusting my faulty memory? I see it was her!
Rebecca
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Funny, mine was terrified of poultry of any kind. The neighbor’s flock of guinea fowl wandered into our pasture and my gelding was as far away from them as he could be, butt up against the fence trembling with fear. Poor guy.
Guineas do make an awful sound I agree, but when out hacking, we would sometimes pass a house where there were chickens and he was terrified by them as well.
No fear of dogs (or snakes) but birds just sent him over the edge.
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Do horses and other animals have phobias like some people do? IMO it makes sense that they would.
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I don’t know. He was very suspicious of chicken/guinea/turkey appearances, but it was when they made a noise that he really lost the plot.
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Poor pony.
I wonder if animals can have misophonia, like humans?
I really like “lost the plot”. Make i plagiarize?
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It’s an old saying. 
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I’ve enjoyed doing those “what horse are you?” questionnaires over the years. IIRC none of them ever asked questions like “How do you react when a noisy flock of birds suddenly appears out of nowhere?” If one of the answers had been (A) “Loses the plot,” that would have been the horse I would have been.
OTOH I have no problem* with plastic bags.
*Other than the fact that they are taking over the world. 
I am pretty sure my old horse had an intense phobia of cows. She would get so hysterical at the sight of them that you could not reason with her, much less train. All you could do was kiss your ass goodbye.
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I know someone currently dealing with the results of a horse - dog encounter. Both animals belonged to her. Horse was a bit of a bully. May have been barked at and “chased” by a different dog (I dont think this horse was frightened, more annoyed) Recently owner and dog are in the field and there is work going on at the house which has some of the horses a bit riled up. Horse starts running and aims right for the dog. Tried to stomp him with a front foot. Luckily, it wasnt a direct hit. No bones were broken but he degloved one leg. 
Dog is currently still needing bandage changes at the vet and treatments in a hyperbaric chamber for healing.
When I get that stupid “He’s friendly!” from the owner of an out of control dog, my reply is “I Am Not!”
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Similar to my response when people ask me if my dogs bite. Depending on who’s asking, it’s either, “no, but I do” or “only on command”.
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This isn’t true. Most pitbulls are not dog aggressive. The ones that are help to give the breed a bad reputation because they are exceptionally aggressive. Most pitbulls are good dogs. The bad ones are extremely dangerous.
I have known many, many pitbulls. None of those owned by friends were dog aggressive. Some neighbors’ dogs were, and I steered clear. One of the many pitties I have known was human-aggressive, though had never actually bitten anyone. She would growl and bark and intimidate, and I had to be very careful when visiting or staying over at their house. Another was questionable, in that he would randomly growl and sometimes appear obsessive in following my frenchie around, but never bit a human or another animal. He just seemed off, and I kept my wits about me around him.
Throwing out inaccurate blanket statements like this is why this issue is so divisive.
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We had an extremely dog aggressive horse in our barn. It would go out of its way to kill them. My mare? Utterly terrified of yellow labs and goldens at a distance - as in she will spook and lose her marbles if they are in the driveway or on the road - but tolerates our BM’s yellow lab up close. 
We used to have a (house) tenant on property with an aggressive Rottweiler. It frequently got loose (owner had a drug problem), and would frequent the arena and the barns. One time it treed a cat and ripped it out of the tree by its tail. It was terrifying. I took to carrying a shovel around with me for defense.
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