re: Any of yall horse people?

My friend has horses. about 10 of them I think.
Now, I've always been OK with horses, but it always seemed that they were more trouble than they were worth.
Anyway, I'm at my friends house the other day and he asked me to feed these 2 mares their rolled oats and medicine. They are in a pasture by themselves.
They've got those individual square feeder buckets that you just hang on a strand of the fence.
Well, apparently I didn't do it correctly. One of those mares started stompin her foot and the other one was pushing the feeder buckets with her nose.
So I did some re-arranging and I guess I got it right, because they both laid their heads on my shoulder after that. I petted them some and went back to the barn.
It was pretty surprising to me how they acted about that.