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RC: Re: Re: Stallion behavior



Hi Tamara & everyone

This sounds like a sensible solution for what is obviously confirmed
behaviour and works for this horse.

The problem is that often behaviour which is "natural" for the horse,
particularly stallions, is not acceptable within the bounds of his relations
with his human handlers.  This is the price the horse pays for being
domesticated.  In return he GENERALLY gets housed and fed and well looked
after.
For us humans, as handlers, there is a thin line to tread between fear and
respect as far as the horse is concerned.  Its very important to find this
happy medium with stallions but more often than not you'll find you have to
lean towards much stricter than with a gelding or a mare.
I suppose (despite being a breeder) I have a bee in my bonnet about
stallions because there are so many at all levels in endurance in France.
No-one gelds their colts because they're worth more entire and there are
lots of owner/riders who campaign a stallion in endurance in hopes of making
some money on the side covering mares.  Often these horses have little going
for them in terms of performance or genetic capability.
Its not uncommon in France on a 60kms ride to find 15-20 stallions
competing.  A lot of these horses are not very well behaved and there are
lots of accidents waiting to happen.
Off the soap-box now!
Heather

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tamara Jane Habberley" Subject: RC: Re: Stallion behavior


> Hi
>
> the stallion at the last year I was on , a thourghbred just used to cover
> and produce hunters, used to grab and mouth things.  Its natural to them
to
> do so.
>
> The owner overcome the 'problem' when grooming etc by giving him a leather
> backed dandy brush to hold. worked wonders.
>
> tamara
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>
> To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 6:23 PM
> Subject: RC: Stallion behavior
>
>
> > With all due respect to Teddy,  we've never had to beat (or even strike)
> > Nasrif to have him respect us, nor have we had to do that with his
coming
> 3
> > year old son Koko.  Nasrif *had* had the tar whipped out of him before
we
> > got him, and we got him partly because he behaved so poorly.  So for
some
> > horses (in my personal opinion, all horses) the whip is not the answer.
> >
> > Teddy's right, though - a stallion that doesn't behave in public is a
> > gelding waiting to happen.  Get yours trained fast or get the vet to
visit
> > - and even that might not fix the problem, because once a stallion's
> > learned a behavior, it doesn't necessarily just disappear when the
> hormones
> > do.  Lif
> >
> >
> >
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