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The three white/grey horses (all arabs. two mares, one gelding. None related) tend to hang out together at my barn too (there are 9 horses there).

Maryanne Gabbani <msgabbani@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Mine tend to do that too. The greys get along fine together, the bays together, and the chestnuts together. I always figured that it was just because the chestnuts were related, but that doesn't explain the greys and the bays.

Maryanne

On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Debbie Lyons wrote:

"A few days later, I brought home another horse... a spoiled rotten
mustang.  She stirred everything up all over again, of course, and for
awhile, the herd split into two groups, "The Black and Whites, which
included both the newest additions, and the old pony) and (The Browns,
which included my two mares and the gelding)"

 

My husband and I attended a week long clinic last fall. After a morning in the arena, and since the horses were going to be together for a week, we turned them all into a large arena to get some herd issues worked out. The herd divided themselves into color groups even if they hadn't arrived together. Two Friesians in one corner, two white Arabians in another, the Bay corner (one QH, one Arab), the chestnut corner, etc. It was pretty amazing.