This message is from: "Beth Pulsifer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Aimee, I agree... Any young ones we've had we've gelded at four or five mo. and wean between five and six mo. depending on how both mare and foal are doing. Haven't had any babies for quite awhile ... :( The ones we have had were either arabs or welsh no Fjords... darn!! :) Wish I'd known then what I know now although I have just absolutely loved my arabs and our little welsh mare Wonderful animals... Am really hooked on Lizbet tho...:) If I were younger there would be more little Lizbets around!! :) Have a great day..Hope it's as nice in Garland as it is here... Beth
-------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 08/08/06 07:42:54 To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Subject: Gelding age.... This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/7/2006 9:44:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The vet won't geld him at this age. He says he's too young. Now he would prefer not to geld until a year, but I don't want to wait that long. Hi Ellen, I've been following your posts. I had a fjord colt that was VERY studdy from day ONE. No one in the herd was happy about it either....He was 4 months old, (a long time for the herd to deal with this) well dropped, and needed to be cut - in my eyes. So I called my vet. He wasn't really convinced this FJORD was ready....number one he said they are normally so short it's hard for him to do - this baby was TALL, not a problem there....then his next excuse was he probably didn't have both testicles down.... YES he did I assured him. He came out and did him - at 4 months. He told me this baby was the same size as the coming 2 yr old (some other breed) he just did the day before...... Now when I call at 4 months he comes right out. I like to geld them while they are still nursing, I think it's less stressful for them. I wean between 5-6 months depending upon the baby and the dam. I have gelded 5 colts at 4 months with NO problems and was quite happy to have done it that early. Just throwing in my 2 cents :) Aimee Day Days End Fjords Garland ME. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of IMSTP.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type Image/jpeg which had a name of BackGrnd33.jpg]
