Can horses be gay?

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My mare is in a herd with 30 other, a mixture of geldings and mares, but despite having plenty of fine chaps to hang out with, she has paired up with a bay thoroughbred mare - so can horses be gay? Or how do I find out if its just a phase she is going through ;-)
 
I don't think being friends with a mare would make her gay. However I think that animals can be gay, penguins definately can, there was an interesting tv programme on recently about it.

There are times when I wonder about Captain though!
 
My gelding is as gay as you like. Whenever we're out and meet other riders, he ignores the mares and snogs all the other geldings!

That said, he chases our mare all over the field when she's in season, he's obviously a very mixed up lad.

Still, he's happy enough so who's bothered.
 
I think you ort to read up about horses and how the interact with others it might help you understand its behaviour instead of insulting it with your own opinions.
 
ooooooooooo uncalled for !!!! SOH failure alert, whoop whoop whoop...:mad:

My boy is loved up with another gelding - they are both the lowest of the herd, and seem to look out for each other - fabulous ! sm x
 
NeilM said:
My gelding is as gay as you like. Whenever we're out and meet other riders, he ignores the mares and snogs all the other geldings!

That said, he chases our mare all over the field when she's in season, he's obviously a very mixed up lad.

Still, he's happy enough so who's bothered.
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PMSL gay as you like :D:D It's his right! leave him alone:p:D
 
peek-a-boo said:
I think you ort to read up about horses and how the interact with others it might help you understand its behaviour instead of insulting it with your own opinions.
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Are you serious???? :eek::rolleyes: meh

ETA she could run up to her horse and scream "your a gay poof" and the horse wouldn't be offended!! being that the horse can't understand a word of the human language AND i can gaurantee you 100% the horse is not on HHO reading this thread! :/ so won't be insulted.

And "ort" ???????
 
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"I think you ort to read up about horses and how the interact with others it might help you understand its behaviour instead of insulting it with your own opinions. "
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You could read up on grammar and spelling, or possibly consider avoiding throwing stones in glass houses?
Tangoharvey, sometimes horses just form close pair bonds, with horses of the same or opposite sex. It's just something they do.
 
peek-a-boo said:
I think you ort to read up about horses and how the interact with others it might help you understand its behaviour instead of insulting it with your own opinions.
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We are in the 21st century love. Calling someone gay if they are gay is not an insult.

Yes definitely, I used to ride a stallion behind in season mares and he couldn't care less about them! He was a gay boy!

Sometimes farmers only find out they've got a gay ram when the otehr rams get coloured bottoms from the marker wax they use to tell who has served which ewe.
 
If they can then my boy is deffo gay! He is petrified of mares! I'm thinking this may be the reason he was cut late......... ;) :o
 
peek-a-boo said:
I think you ort to read up about horses and how the interact with others it might help you understand its behaviour instead of insulting it with your own opinions.
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Peek a boo - Let me just be perfectly clear. I was not insulting my horse by calling her gay. As a gay woman myself, I would not see that word as an insult. As she grazes at the bottom of my a garden, I can spend alot of time watching how horses interact with others, thankyou, and it was this observation that led me to ask the question, as the majority of people on this forum are eloquent, intelliegent and a great source of knowledge and expertise.
 
tangoharvey said:
Peek a boo - Let me just be perfectly clear. I was not insulting my horse by calling her gay. As a gay woman myself, I would not see that word as an insult. As she grazes at the bottom of my a garden, I can spend alot of time watching how horses interact with others, thankyou, and it was this observation that led me to ask the question, as the majority of people on this forum are eloquent, intelliegent and a great source of knowledge and expertise.
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Can i ask a question? do you find the word 'poof' offensive? only i did try to edit it out but was too late :( I know a gay couple (men) and they are always calling themselves poofs:rolleyes: so didn't think anything of it, sorry though if that is offensive, certainly didn't mean to be :o
 
I am sure geldings especially are often gay if you count that as being sexually attracted to the same sex. I have seen them mount other geldings too many times to count. I don't think i have ever seen a mare mount anything else though. Maybe the geldings go a bit funny when they lose their bits and suffer some serious gender confusion. It's bound to cause a complex going through something like that lol, my OH winces every time i mention anything about it.

As with mares becoming very close etc, i think they are 'just good friends' ;) lol
 
well mine comes into season for another mare - doesnt bother with the boys but loves my friends mare and will shove her bum in her face and stand and wee and squirt - I dont know if she just loves her or is some sort of 'look i am more fertile than you ' behaviour????

ETA - nightmare if we hack out and mine in season as my friends horse wont go in front - so i have too and we keep stopping to lift tail to mare behind - Its so embarrassing she stopped and had a wee in the middle of village once - on a hill!!!! - it ran all down hill and then stood there squirting after too!!!!
 
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You say I find it offensive no I don't care which way people bend, but the whole thread hangs on a animal being gay I was saying she should read up about her horse and why it behaves like that not just jump to its gay! I really don't care my reply was suppose to be a bit of a joke but if you lot are going to jump down my throat for it I will not bother to reply in future.
 
Two of mine are in a civil partnership! they kick, bite, make faces etc to each other when they are together but go mental when seperated and shout on each other constantly! both are geldings and exhibit very "married" behaviour ;););)!!
 
I once watched a documentery:eek:

which was about animal behavior (i know nuts :D)
Apparently all animals especially females exhibit gay tendencys its something to do with herd mentality or something but you see in horses cows and dogs etc its just humans that make complicated social rules
 
I think my new horse could be gay.
When I first turned him out in his field, the little arab mare in the field next to him (who is in season) was running up and down the fence calling to him, and he played it cool and ignored her:
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However, when the geldings were turned out, he did a LOT of this bless him:
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My last horse was out with another gelding and they pair-bonded and were inseperable; even when other horses were there they still make a huge fuss and din if the other was taken out of the field.

So they'd obviously got something very special between them.

Same-sex relationships like this in animals is well-documented in the wider animal and farming community and isn't at all unusual; personally I think its just an expression of pure love of one being for another. Aw bless.
 
Sounds like the mares just have a nice friendship bond?

I think so....my gelding and my friends gelding used to groom each other and get their willies out! A woman also used to walk her Fjord stallion past and our geldings went mental for it!!!! But if they ever came across a mare in season etc they wouldn't have the time of day for her :P
 
I think Lancelot may have had some unresolved issues in this direction:D. Possibly explaining his anger management issues. I know he secretly liked glittery browbands and being plaited up.:D
 
Mum's mare (18 yrs) came over to mine last year when mum was poorly. She regularly mounted my old pony mare (28) when in the same paddock. I separated them,and mums mare would jump post and rail to get to her and moint her. It was totally bizarre stallion like behaviour in mares.

Needless to say I sent her home quick smart!!
 
I havent read all the replies so apologies if Im repeating something but I dont think they see it the same way as us.
Alot of male animals will get 'aquainted' with other males if they are in an environment where theres no female.

I had a pair of male dagus once, joey got it more than twice daily from chandler poor thing, Im assuming if there was a female in there it wouldnt happen.


My mare prefers mares and will pair with one, but as said I dont think it makes her gay. :)
 
Just because horses have best friends doesn't mean their gay lol

Now my stallion could well be classed as gay he's always trying to bum my little man but then again he does live with a herd of 5 other boys.
 
lets see....
Hairy legs? check!
Moustache? check?
Hangs out with other mares? check!
Wears comforable shoes? check!
Baggy sacklike clothing, perhaps even canvas and leather? check!

Ummmm your mare is not just gay, she is a biker dyke! lol
 
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