RE: RC: Stallions

[Leah Peasley <lkpeasley@ucdavis.edu>]

Maryanne - 

Fortunately, Pagan is quite well behaved and lives with dozens of mares
about 20 feet from his pen (even if some of them are his daughters - he
doesn't care).  But since he is actively being breed, any new horse (mare
or gelding) is a potential mate as far as he's concerned.  He'll check
them out visually and whinny his darned head off until he figures out what
they are.

He hasn't shown in a few years, but he was always fine around mares in the
hunter rings at shows - but heartrate was never an issue there.

I'm *so* happy to hear that heartrate isn't a big issue with the 'boys' in
Egypt.  That's been my only concern with Pagan - any other behavior is
completely controlable.

Thank you!

Leah



On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Maryanne Stroud Gabbani wrote:

> Hi Leah,
> While everyone in Egypt is new to endurance and vet checks, about 75% of our
> horses at our rides were stallions. This is just a local variation as
> Egyptians don't like neutering animals and with the dust and all any
> unnecessary surgery is a risk. Most of our boys are socialised quite young
> and learn to work next to mares of every hormonal persuasion. Has Pagan been
> around a lot of mares? We found that mares were the least of our stallions
> worries.