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My 15 year old mare lives out in a mixed herd of 4. For the purposes of this I will name the horses A,B,C, and X
Horse A - 25 year old mare
Horse B- 15 year old gelding my mares best friend
Horse C- 8 year old gelding
Horse X- 6 year old Gelding
Last week horse C gets swapped for various reasons with horse X. Horse X has been out with my mare a few months ago but when she first arrived and only for a couple of days. Horse X has apparently been seen mounting my mare and she has a couple of bite marks on her. Horse B has been pushed right out of the equasion and my mare seems to prefer horse X.
She came in yesterday with a really dirty back end where she walks past, stops and squirts at horse X all the time. She has small cuts either side of her fairy that are long and thin and roughly 3/4 cm long. They are not at all deep just a bit red, she is fine with me treating them.
She is fine to be handled and ridden etc all through her seasons the only difference I notice is that she tries to squirt on my head when I go to pick her back feet out :s
Horse X cannot be moved back into the field he was in, I was just going to ask for some advice really... Do I wait for this season to finnish and just sit it out... She can stick up for herself but I dont like the thought of her being forced into things?! I just think he is young and the novelty of her will wear off hopefully he is generally well behaved in the field with other horses. Any suggestions thankyou for reading
My 15 year old mare lives out in a mixed herd of 4. For the purposes of this I will name the horses A,B,C, and X
Horse A - 25 year old mare
Horse B- 15 year old gelding my mares best friend
Horse C- 8 year old gelding
Horse X- 6 year old Gelding
Last week horse C gets swapped for various reasons with horse X. Horse X has been out with my mare a few months ago but when she first arrived and only for a couple of days. Horse X has apparently been seen mounting my mare and she has a couple of bite marks on her. Horse B has been pushed right out of the equasion and my mare seems to prefer horse X.
She came in yesterday with a really dirty back end where she walks past, stops and squirts at horse X all the time. She has small cuts either side of her fairy that are long and thin and roughly 3/4 cm long. They are not at all deep just a bit red, she is fine with me treating them.
She is fine to be handled and ridden etc all through her seasons the only difference I notice is that she tries to squirt on my head when I go to pick her back feet out :s
Horse X cannot be moved back into the field he was in, I was just going to ask for some advice really... Do I wait for this season to finnish and just sit it out... She can stick up for herself but I dont like the thought of her being forced into things?! I just think he is young and the novelty of her will wear off hopefully he is generally well behaved in the field with other horses. Any suggestions thankyou for reading
