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--- Carol Fredal <carol3770@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I must be awful lucky, should buy a lottery ticket,
> because I have mixed geldings and mares for almost
> 20yrs without any problems.  Mares get alittle
> bitchy
> when in season, squealing and such, but nothing
> major.
>  My geldings look alittle puzzled.  Never considered
> myself as being cruel to my horses.
>
> --- Ginny Holsman <ginny744@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > IMO, it is cruel to have more geldings than mares
> in
> > any pasture or paddock. 
> >   Geldings may not be able to produce foals, but
> > they don't know that, and 
> > they still love sex.
> >
> > Geldings will corner mares, run them down to wear
> > them out, deprive them of 
> > water, won't let them graze or eat, pester them to
> > death, and many other 
> > ways they torment mares in heat, relentlessly,
> > unless there is a mare that 
> > is not in heat that can protect the mare in heat.
> >
> > Mares put out an odor while coming into heat and
> > going out of heat as well 
> > as while in heat that drives geldings totally
> nuts,
> > makes them crazy, so 
> > they can't think about anything but getting sex,
> > can't graze, can't do 
> > anything but try to get sex.
> >
> > Mares are coming into heat, in heat, and coming
> out
> > of heat 3/4 of the time; 
> > they are not in heat 1/4 of the time.
> >
> > IMO, there should be no less than 2 mares to every
> > gelding so every mare in 
> > heat has a mare that is not in heat to guard and
> > protect them from sexual 
> > abuse by geldings.
> >
> >
> >
> > > From: Equus Wolf <equuswolf@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [RC]   Pasture Arrangements with
> > Mares/Geldings
> > > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:59:25 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > > > > > > So, my question is:
> > > What do you do about mixing geldings and mares?
> > > thanks
> > > Keith<<<<<
> > >
> > >   When I was younger, I had my horse at a farm
> > where mares and geldings 
> > > were kept together.  I never saw it as a problem
> > *if* the horses were a 
> > > good match in personalities.  However, my mare
> > hooked up with a gelding and 
> > > it would take us hours to catch them (never had
> > catching problems until 
> > > that.)  The gelding was moved to another pasture
> > and problem solved 
> > > immediately.  I also remember another mixed
> pasture
> > that frequently had 
> > > injured horses from kicks/bites because the
> > geldings didn't "get the drift" 
> > > when the mares were in heat and got too close
> (even
> > if it was innocent.)
> > >   Since then, I have been at stables that keep
> > mares and geldings 
> > > separated.  Herd dynamics just seem to work
> better.
> >  It prevents the 
> > > mare/gelding forgot he was a gelding issue.  We
> > also keep the pastures 
> > > rotated in such a way that the mares and geldings
> > never share a fence line. 
> > >  No broken fences yet.  And that's a first of
> > anywhere I've been.
> > >   I think it just depends on the types of horses
> > you have (personality 
> > > wise).  Both of my mares would be find with
> > geldings that knew they were 
> > > geldings.  I know mares that would tear a gelding
> > up if he even thought of 
> > > entering her "space" *laugh*
> > >
> > >   Sounds almost like a playground at school!
> > >
> > >   Jennifer
> > >
> > >
> > >
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