HELP! gelding hates new foal

[buzzman]

Hi,
Ive recently brought home my cob x piebald colt (weanling) he is absoutly fine and acts very grown up in most situations.
However, my 15year old warmblood gelding has taken an instant dislike to him and in the field, he charges at him and chases him around.

I decided to seperate them which is fine, but the foal settled and my gelding is still running up and down and being rather silly in his side of the paddock.

Hes not normally like this at all and im worried im going to be struggling to turn them out together. will he get used to him?

 

[amy_b]

We had a horrible situation last year where we put our weanling in the paddock next door to an old arab that was used as a nanny regularly then after day or so put them in together, the arab chased the weanling through three lots of permenent elecric fencing!! we then seperated them again (oviously!) came up the next morning to find the weanling had jumped IN with the arab?!!! and they were perfectly happy!! Im not very experienced but I would give them a good while to get used to each other over the fence before putting them together

 

[iconique]

We have an older pony that we sometimes used as a nanny, he simply gets very jealous and acts up, but if we introduce him slowly he eventually becomes best buddies and a great companion.

Its almost like the foal has to earn complete respect from a distance and become part of the scenery before he'll accept them and we are extremely careful not to put in together too early and in a large area that if he is still grumpy the foal can get away.

Hope yours settles down and eventually lets him become his friend.

 

[millimoo]

I am of the other mindset and would not leave them to it.
My mums 17hh warmblood was terrible with my Shetland pony. We had a incident where my Shetland escaped and said warmblood had him cornered and was lashing out with teeth and front legs -'he meant it too.
This resulted in my shettie going on loan. However when he came home I had my Shetland in an electric fenced section of the paddock for 3 months before we dare turn him out. I also grazed him in hand in warmbloods field amongst said horse and my mums other horse.
When we finally bit the bullet my mums horse still took a chunk out of his back which left a scar.
Do you have another horse, we have learnt that my mums warmblood is very possesive of his field chum if a 3rd is introduced, and becomes very dominant, but less so if you take his chum out.
Would like to add that shettie and warmblood are devoted to each other now, although still bicker like children... Warmblood nips his neck, and shettie reverses and bucks. But separate them and they shout and stress.