This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Alison Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find that geldings are much more placid than mares [...] I find > that they bond better with you than mares.
Interesting---my experience has been exactly the opposite! My old Nansy mare is the one who whinneys a greeting when I go out to the barn, and the one who comes first when I call them back in from pasture. I've never seen any behaviors from her that I would consider hormone related. She's always there, steady and dependable---doing her job. Our two geldings, on the other hand, are always bickering. They take each others' fly masks off (often shredding them in the process), play-fighting. They bite big tufts of hair out of each other. Twice, Sleepy has actually bitten chunks out of Rom's ears! And, if another horse that we meet out on the trail looks crossways at Sleepy, he jumps out from under me---trying to avoid what he thinks is going to be an "attack". I suspect it's an individual thing. But, I know that a sample size of 3 doesn't give me very reliable statistics.... Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will! 30 mi SSE of San Francisco, Calif. -------
