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RE: [RC] re: mixing mares and geldings - heidiYowzer Heidi--what d'ya mean mares have "no physiological processes even close to menstruation"? I've a great deal of respect for your opinion because you know lots about lots, but I gotta' seriously disagree in this case. I've had both stallions and mares--and--perhaps I'm biased being a female and all--but the boys seem much less bothered by their hormones than many of the females.... My current mare is particularly bothered by her heat cycle, and I'd be willing to write her off as "pathological" if it weren't for the fact that many of my friends have mares just like her. I meant what I said. Menstruation is the sloughing of the uterine lining in between ovulations. Mares have no physiological process even akin to it. Only humans and other primates undergo it. Additionally, menstruation occurs "mid-cycle" so to speak--just as the progesterone influence begins to taper off but before the estrogen influence takes over that leads to ovulation. So it isn't even remotely similar to mares being in heat. By the same token, women have no particular "heat cycle" comparable to mares--female humans tend to be sexually receptive any time they are not suffering from painful menstruation, including during pregnancy. So you have no way of relating to what a mare goes through in heat, either, when estrogen drives her toward wanting to alter her behavior patterns. So yes, it may be true that your mare is bothered by her heat cycles, and that you are bothered by menstruation, but the two are neither similar nor comparable. It is all too common to anthropomorphize and pretend that horses do things the way we do and visa versa--but it simply isn't the case. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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