Ridecamp: [RC] Stallions and mares [was: horses that kick]

At 10:11 AM 5/30/02, Heidi Smith wrote:
> It has been my experience that we've ridden side by side with mares in heat
> on our stallions on multiple occasions and not even had the mare owners KNOW
> we were riding stallions.

Ditto.  Not only that, but a properly behaved stallion can be ridden next 
to other stallions, drink out of the same water buckets, etc.  Equines are 
perfectly capable of overriding their breeding instinct - this includes 
mares! The species as a whole would never have survived through evolution 
if they lost their minds when they bred.  Just think of how easy it would 
be for predators then - all they'd have to do is wait for a mare to come 
into heat and they'd know they could just stroll over and have lunch.

Lif Strand
Quemado NM  USA
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