Oh no! Not another mare bigot.
I am a huge fan of good geldings and would always rather ride one. And I have probably owned the witchiest Welsh pony mare ever born, but there are great mares, too, and mares who are never cranky and never exhibit in heat behavior. I have two here right now. At the boarding facility where Hunter lives, they have mare pastures and gelding pastures, but they will sometimes break the rules. There's a big black mare in the pasture where Hunter is and there is a gelding with two mare that our friends keep there. I really don't see the mares upsetting the geldings any more than any new horse would. Nancy