Can a gelding cause a mare to come into season?

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One of the owners at my yard thinks that my 24 years old gelding is responsible for her mare coming into season every few weeks this winter. Does anyone know if this is possible/likely please?? None of the other mares in the same field are coming into season and this idea seems a bit far-fetched to me, Can anyone help please?

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I have a riggy gelding who turned into a raging crested stud when I introduced him to an elderly mare. She seemed to go instantly into season (tho it's possible she was already, she wasn't mine so I wasnt aware of what her seasons were like). He'd lived with mares before, so not like he'd never met one before....they just seemed to really click...the whole situation was a real nuisance, she carried on squirting at him and he escalated into mounting. My other young gelding had no idea how to deal with it so I separated them all and only by getting my riggy one onto rig calm was I eventually able to gradually reintegrate them all harmoniously. It took about three weeks tho and the riggy one and mare acted like a pair bonded couple ever after, with her intermittently squirting still. My young gelding remained on the outside of things but was eventually allowed back into the gang as long as he kept away from her.
My young gelding and another gelding had lived with this old mare for a year without triggering any sign of a season as far as I know. Definitely no scenarios as extreme as this one.
Guess some geldings just still have 'it'!!
 
I would say yes, but I also think the weather has a lot to do with it. My slightly riggy gelding (never proven) does seem to have this ability much to mare owners dismay. I don't think it's just him though.
 
I think it depends on the mare......we had a very hormonal one on livery with us and any sniff of the geldings sent her into season.
 
I don't know if the geldings bring my mare into season but she appears to have no idea they have had their bits removed and will flirt and squirt at them.
 
suekennon said:
One of the owners at my yard thinks that my 24 years old gelding is responsible for her mare coming into season every few weeks this winter. Does anyone know if this is possible/likely please?? None of the other mares in the same field are coming into season and this idea seems a bit far-fetched to me, Can anyone help please?

Thank you
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In short yes........... My first mare was a t4rt and if any gelding started sniffing her etc she came in season, much to the annoyance of the geldings getting covered in gooey stuff.

Many mares come into season at the sight / smell/ nose touch of a gelding.
 
Yes, very much so, my now 20yr old is an embarrasing tart, my boy loved her when she first came, because of the 'open invitation' mounted her on a regular basis, riding behind a winking, squirting mare with her tail touching her nose is no fun and I'm no prude, HOWEVER, three years on, things have settled down and she has settled back into a more normal routine, where she pees a lot and moves her tail and my three boys completely ignore her, mares! you have to love them
 
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