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Well, this is exactly what was happening at my house.  I had 6 mares, and one newly made gelding.  He didn't and still doesn't realize that fact at times.  Anyway, it was a fight all day, and all night.  One of the mares would attack him when he went in after one of the other mares that was heat.    I tried this for about 2 weeks, and saw that he was going to be a constant source of turmoil in the pasture and someone was going to get hurt.  So, I put in a paddock to himself....and there is where he stays.  I am not even going to try it again.

 

Jody

Ginny Holsman <ginny744@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mares will protect one another, if there are enough of them to do so; but 
> that requires a mare that is not in heat available to protect the mares that 
> are in heat, and
>  since mares are in various stages of coming into and out of 
> heat, and in heat 3/4 of the time; that makes it very difficult for there to 
> be a mare that is not in heat to protect the ones in heat, when there are 
> too many geldings with too few mares!
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