Re: [RC] Pasture Arrangements with Mares/Geldings - indiancp
i've had horses for fifty years. many of those
years i was managing a boarding stable and always had fifty plus horses
there. mares and geldings pastured and turned out together. we were
far more likely to have war between two mares than geldings or geldings and
mares. i owned a gelding who fell in love with one mare and he would mount
her but never bothered the others. this was much to HER delight AND i'm sure it
was her idea. only time in all those years i ever saw a gelding even
interested in sex.
at this time we have what may be one who hadn't
been gelded for long. when he first came he mounted all the mares with the
exception of our 12.2h pony mare and since then he's been a normal gelding.
by the way when he tried the pony she told him where to go and he believed
that's where she'd send him if he kept on. i believe that if a gelding
keeps on and on at a mare and she's objecting there is something wrong
with him. i've seen mares try to entice geldings when there wasn't anything
better around and the geldings just goes "DUH" never in all my years have i
ever heard of a herd of geldings raping mares. there is the occasional
stallion who will kill foals, too, if he gets half a chance but that
doesn't make them the norm either. patty in georgia
Man does not have the only memory, The animals remember, The earth
remembers, The stones remember, If you know how to listen, they will tell
you many things.
