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[RC] mares and geldings - Alexa OlneyI believe that combing or creating a herd of horses is a difficult job no matter what the sex. I have grown up around horses and seen many different situations. I have come to see that there is more of a problem with combining young horses who dont have proper social herd skills with older horses who do. I have seen more than one almost get chased through the fence when the dominant horse gets tired of them. It is definetly a trial and error process, you can't just put them together and think that everything will be fine. I have seen a dominant horse in one herd be the low man in another. If a gelding were being that aggresive towards mares as to "rape" them I would definetly have a vet examine him to make sure he does not have a retained testicle (proud cut). We did have an exprience with this once at a ride. Some friends had just bought a "gelding" who got loose and proceeded to try and "rape" the mare tied to our trailer. They had him examined and he indeed did still have a testicle left. Some one did not want to spend the money to have the surgery on this crypt-orchid. The only times I have seen geldings mount mares the mare was very persitent that he do the deed. When that behavior was seen they were seperated and put into a different group. So in the long run you just have to wait and see what happens. I have come to learn that horses and horses sociaty is very unpredictable in some instances or maybe they aren't?? Safe Horsin Around Alexa Olney __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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