A slow introduction can help avoid problems by allowing the horses to get used to one another and accept each others' presence over the course of time.
Feed your horses separately, ideally in individual stalls, rather than as a group in the pasture. Ensure an ample supply of resources such as hay and water, so horses have no need to fight with one another over supplies. If you see that two horses are spending a significant amount of time fighting, or that one horse has significantly injured another, you need to separate them immediately.
You can't always make mares and geldings get along with one another. In some cases, all your horses will get along; in others, you may find you can make only eight or nine out of 10 horses live peaceably in one herd.
This is why it is crucial to pay attention to the personalities, more than to the genders, of your animals. Watch your horses' interactions carefully, and identify those who are disrupting your herd's social harmony. You may have to separate dominant horses. If one very submissive horse has become the target of the rest of your horses, you will probably have to remove him from the herd to prevent him from being injured. Jen Davis has been writing since She has served as a newspaper reporter and her freelance articles have appeared in magazines such as "Horses Incorporated," "The Paisley Pony" and "Alabama Living.
By using the site, you agree to the uses of cookies and other technology as outlined in our Policy, and to our Terms of Use. Understanding Mares and Geldings Mares are female horses who, for the most part, still have their reproductive capabilities. Herd Dynamics If you are having a problem convincing your mares and geldings to get along in pasture, chances are a herd dynamics problem, rather than a gender problem, exists. I have one mare and one gelding and would only have have mixed sex grazing as my mare tends to be picked on by other mares and my gelding is very dependant on her.
Heidi1 Well-Known Member 28 March Joined 5 November Messages 3, Location Nottinghamshire. Livery yard I'm at has split grazing, but as I have three mares and one gelding I get to have a couple of fields of my own and they all go together, I also have one of the other liveries mare in with mine too and they are happy as can be, think really Moge thinks he is a mare Britestar Well-Known Member 28 March Joined 2 March Messages 4, Location upside down. Never had a problem.
Problem is can't really introduce anyone new as they all gang up together. Geldings play happily with one another. The mares like to gallop around but never play with the geldings. Apalacia01 Well-Known Member 28 March Pony is fully shod but as yet touch wood in her 9 years of life has never hurt a fly. I know that that is lucky, but just the way things go.
She has had a mixed bunch - mares only, on her own after her surgery, was turned out on own for a year , then out with a herd for 4 days I hasten to add, as there was no method of integration, she was in mud up to her knees and there were 30 other horses in her field I moved yards sharpish She is now out with a 13hh mare who doesn't bat an eyelid my girl likes to chase her around a bit, but they are friends and a Damnation Well-Known Member 28 March As I discovered a month ago my mare can't go out with geldings.
She corners them when she's in season! But she is very dominant. She needs other mares to say "Oi get away missy! I think it very much depends on your own horse as to weather it will be ok with single sex turnout, or not as the case may be. Joined 21 January Messages 11, Location Yorkshire. Never had a problem with this myself, all the horses I have ever had have been turned out together, sometimes we had more mares than geldings other times more geldings than mares and they all worked it out between themselves never had any serious problems.
The college yard I used to be on used to just turn all their horses out together, at times you would have around 20 or so horses out in one field and they never had any problems either. However at uni they are separated, mares with mares and geldings with geldings. Joined 3 November Messages We have mixed groups and everyone gets on brilliant.
In fact there's a mare and a gedling who are inseparable! Joined 2 April Messages 9, Bosworth Well-Known Member 28 March Joined 10 February Messages 5, Location devon. I own a livery and have my mares and geldings completely seperate - at opposite ends of the farm. They get along fine; Mike thinks he is in charge until Eden sets him straight. MajorClementine Moderator Moderator. I've never had a problem with mares and geldings together.
My mares boss the boys around. They get into mild scuffles at times but no more than any two horses tend to get into. I do have one gelding that will try to "breed" one of my mares when she is obviously in heat. But he's always ignored the other mare He only tries for a day or two then it's life as normal.
I have more trouble with my two mares together than any other combination. But again, only minor scuffles. I do keep my geldings separate, but I have several horses, and the boys seem to play harder than the girls.
When I only had a couple horses, they were together and it worked fine. I've been places where there are mare herds and gelding herds.
Some geldings seem to get very possessive of "their" mare s , and can become difficult over it. We have a large field where we turn out mares, fillies, and geldings and not had a problem. Ryan Johnson Well-Known Member. Ive never had an issue either, though I have found my mares to be more bossy of the geldings.
To protect my mini stallion from an overbearing Welsh Cobb pony I have had to house the stallion with my mini mares temporarily. They put him in his place immediately. I was worried about him at first because two of the mares ganged up on him. He is very respectful now and there are no issues. He will be gelded VERY soon. At least one of the mares is already quite pregnant she came to me pregnant. He is a beautiful little guy so if he does breed one of them it wouldn't be a bad thing.
But I can't wait to get him gelded. In the meantime, he is very sweet and they all do mutual grooming now. He is much happier than being chased around by a larger horse and a very large goat.
It's a sight to see your horse in a paddock who is smaller than your goat!
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