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Re: [RC] [RC] Women who ride stallions - Amber B Fort

I did ask for opinions and wasn't put off by Heidi's comments.  They are after all, HER experiences.  I have read enough of ride camp to know who and what I want to read, Heidi's comments are usaully one of the ones I will read.

The thing with the behavior changes, I would agree with her on had I known at the time they happend I was pregnant.  But for the first 3 weeks (when I noticed the changes) I did not know I was pregnant.  I just thought that my boy, JerryO, was maturing into a wonderfull trail mount and thinking Streak had finally settled into his maturity (with AWE on my part). 

I did not make any changes in my handling of my boys in way that I am aware of and nothing in my barn/handling routine had changed either.

I welcome anyone's comments on this subject, as I am curious if anyone else has experienced it.




Amber B Fort
"Performance with out parameters"
From: Bette Lamore <woa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: knighthawkranch@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Women who ride stallions Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 15:29:54 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from seriyu.infostations.net ([66.101.18.29]) by mc3-f31.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Sat, 15 May 2004 15:30:04 -0700 Received: from host-69-19-248-103.rev.o1.com ([69.19.248.103] helo=stormnet.com)by seriyu.infostations.net with esmtp (Exim 4.32 #1 (Gentoo))id 1BP7V8-00068f-Pvfor <knighthawkranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Sat, 15 May 2004 15:19:28 -0700 X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jFlH7XuscDPJOOSwQK5H4Sp Message-ID: <40A699E2.5010901@xxxxxxxxxxxx> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; CDonDemand-Dom) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <BAY7-F49DJlG7hcr2e20001fdc0@xxxxxxxxxxx> <1077.216.222.15.27.1084641327.squirrel@webmai l.velocitus.net> In-Reply-To: <1077.216.222.15.27.1084641327.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Return-Path: woa@xxxxxxxxxxxx X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 May 2004 22:30:04.0533 (UTC) FILETIME=[2B2D1250:01C43ACC]

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Don't let Heidi's remark negate your observations--- she always has to have the final word on everything it seems. My take on what she said is that she is a witch whether she is pregnant or not! ;-)
bette

heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
This is for women who ride stallions or handle them alot, who have gone
thru a pregnacy (their own). I have noticed that since I have become
pregnant, that both of my intact boys are behaving much calmer and
carefull around me.&nbsp; My older stallion, Black Streak(now 8
years)&nbsp;is a high energy come out of the stall telling the world how
great he is, now behaves like a 20 year old gelding.&nbsp; Rarely,
announcing his prescence and when he does, restrains himself to one
stallion whinney and calmly walks/leads to his paddock. My younger
stallion, Kaysa Jerry (now 7 years) is my main riding horse, tho much
more layed back, once on the trail, raring to go.&nbsp; He is now
content to walk, restrains his once in the while spooks to a
minium.&nbsp; Jerry has always been protective of me and thinks my place
is on HIS back and no others.&nbsp; Now seams even more protective. I
have had both of these stallions for 4 and 5 years, nothing has changed
other than their growing a little older and I am now pregnant (about 11
weeks).&nbsp; I noticed a significant change in their behaviors when I
was about 2-3 weeks and at the time was wondering WHAT was going on with
them, as I didn't know I was pregnant until a week or so later. I am
just curious if any other women who have gone thru a pregnacy noticed
any changes in the behavior of their stallions towards them in the above
mention fashion.
    

Although I lost both of my pregnancies, no, I didn't notice any difference
from my stallions.  And although I've heard this sort of thing quite a
bit, I personally think that any change in behavior is reflective more of
our OWN changes in behavior due to our hormonal changes and their reaction
to that change than it is to our changed hormonal status.  In the women
who remark on this that I've known personally, *I'VE* even been able to
notice a difference in their personalities, and I am pretty sure I am not
sensing hormonal changes directly.  The women who don't seem to alter
personality much with hormonal alterations also don't have their stallions
change their behavior.  Just my observations over many years with
stallions and with clients with stallions...

Heidi


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