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PostPosted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Geldings and mares pasture together just fine. Of course, strange horses of any sex when first put together will have some issues to sort out, but they will get it figured out.
Lots of people run geldings, mares and studs together year round with little to no trouble out of the ordinary.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We got about twenty head in one bunch out with the mature cows-there's 6 studs out there-the boss cat just runs off the four younger ones and they stay off to the side aways. We've got some geldings in with another bunch of mares with no problems.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well it's been 13 weeks now since I put the two together and she is still kickin his butt. She was living with 4 mules before and maybe they're just smarter than my gelding. Or, maybe he just can't
quite get the message that she is in charge but she sure has given him some good wounds. She bit the fool out of him a couple weeks ago - bites the size of grapefruits (she is a draft horse) with the hair taken off! She's kicked him in the chest several times and he seems to finally be learning not to walk up behind her. You'd think a goofy 950 lb gelding would eventually learn that the 1745 lb mare IS in charge. I guess he's just a slow learner! Meanwhile I've cleared the land for the barn and am trying to brave the 107 degree heat index. It really is the humidity that's so bad.


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