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RE: [RC] [RC] Pasture Arrangements with Mares/Geldings - Carol Fredal



--- Carol Fredal <carol3770@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I must be awful lucky, should buy a lottery ticket,
because I have mixed geldings and mares for almost
20yrs without any problems.  Mares get alittle
bitchy
when in season, squealing and such, but nothing
major.
 My geldings look alittle puzzled.  Never considered
myself as being cruel to my horses.

--- Ginny Holsman <ginny744@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


IMO, it is cruel to have more geldings than mares
in
any pasture or paddock. 
  Geldings may not be able to produce foals, but
they don't know that, and 
they still love sex.

Geldings will corner mares, run them down to wear
them out, deprive them of 
water, won't let them graze or eat, pester them to
death, and many other 
ways they torment mares in heat, relentlessly,
unless there is a mare that 
is not in heat that can protect the mare in heat.

Mares put out an odor while coming into heat and
going out of heat as well 
as while in heat that drives geldings totally
nuts,
makes them crazy, so 
they can't think about anything but getting sex,
can't graze, can't do 
anything but try to get sex.

Mares are coming into heat, in heat, and coming
out
of heat 3/4 of the time; 
they are not in heat 1/4 of the time.

IMO, there should be no less than 2 mares to every
gelding so every mare in 
heat has a mare that is not in heat to guard and
protect them from sexual 
abuse by geldings.



From: Equus Wolf <equuswolf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC]   Pasture Arrangements with
Mares/Geldings
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:59:25 -0800 (PST)

So, my question is:
What do you do about mixing geldings and mares?
thanks
Keith<<<<<

  When I was younger, I had my horse at a farm
where mares and geldings 
were kept together.  I never saw it as a problem
*if* the horses were a 
good match in personalities.  However, my mare
hooked up with a gelding and 
it would take us hours to catch them (never had
catching problems until 
that.)  The gelding was moved to another pasture
and problem solved 
immediately.  I also remember another mixed
pasture
that frequently had 
injured horses from kicks/bites because the
geldings didn't "get the drift" 
when the mares were in heat and got too close
(even
if it was innocent.)

  Since then, I have been at stables that keep
mares and geldings 
separated.  Herd dynamics just seem to work
better.
 It prevents the 
mare/gelding forgot he was a gelding issue.  We
also keep the pastures 
rotated in such a way that the mares and geldings
never share a fence line. 
 No broken fences yet.  And that's a first of
anywhere I've been.

  I think it just depends on the types of horses
you have (personality 
wise).  Both of my mares would be find with
geldings that knew they were 
geldings.  I know mares that would tear a gelding
up if he even thought of 
entering her "space" *laugh*

  Sounds almost like a playground at school!

  Jennifer



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