Is it normal for mares and gelding to try to ...you know...???!!??

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I have just taken back a 24yo 13.2hh mare from many years loan and she seems to be in season. (She belonged to my sister before and I have always had geldings personally so am a bit clueless about these things!).

So far I have kept her separate from my 2 geldings with non-electrified electric tape which they respect fine. Trouble is in the past few days she keeps going up to my 16.1hh WB gelding and basically trying to encourage him to mount her and he has been trying to reciprocate. Obviously this is not good so I have moved her away from the boys for now (she threw a huge tantrum over this)!

I would have thought that a gelding would not be that likely to respond given their "state" but perhaps I am wrong?! I think he was gelded at about the age of 5/6 and is now 13 so would have thought he would have got over it by now!!! :eek: Is it normal for geldings to reciprocate like this?? My 32yo gelding is not at all interested (but that's probably an age thing I guess)???

Do mares eventually stop going into season?? She seems to have been exhibiting signs for a few weeks now, how long does this normally last??? I realise my boy is utterly gorgeous/irresistable but is there anything I can do to discourage her coming into season in future to try and keep the peace in my formerly perfect little set up!!!?? :confused:
 
God yeah - they are filth pots !

I had 3 mares and a gelding I kept all together for a while which tripped his head in to being a full on stallion again , it was knocking off his belly most of the time. King of the herd

Then my current mare used to be turned out just with a gelding and they used to love a quicky !

what can you do hey ?
 
We have one gelding whose head can be turned by a new mare on the yard. I've found giving him Agnus Castus (also known a Chasteberry) for a few weeks settles him down again. Usually by this time the mare has realised he can't make babies & loses interest as well.
 
Yep, fraid so. My gelding is a dirty old bugger. Our YO buys and sells eventers and quite regularily has a nice mare or three on the yard. He cant wait to go and see them in their stables and if they are in the paddock adjacent to the yard, he is like a dog on heat. The laugh is he only does this to what we call the 'Posh totty'. He ignores the mares which are on livery on our yard. The only mare he takes any notice of is Mini TX's mare, who is a bit of a stunner, when we hack out together he practically oozes smugness as if to say 'I've got a stunner for a girlfriend', if we hack out with other liveries as well, he wont let anyone go near his 'bitch'. He is just a dirty old man, and they seem to like him as a bit of rough.
 
Yep!

My TB gelding was cut late and he and my old mare 27 at the time-did it all the time! We just let them get on with it as he was only invited to do it when she was in season and he didn't bother trying any other time.

I did keep an eye on their 'tackle' to make sure they were clean and didn't get any infections as of course studs test mares all the time in between services.
 
Prince was gelded at six months, he is 18 now and he still feels the need to keep lady happy!!!!

They are still men after all, they still have feelings, they just aren't as strong as they are when they've not been chopped.
If you chopped a blokes bits off, it wouldn't stop him fancing the ladies, he might not feel such a need, but still have it there.
 
If you are finding it a problem, Vicks up the geldings nostrils does seem to help cool their ardor as they cannot smell the mare.
 
They most certainly do! The mares never quite give up the chance of a baby and the geldings, well never forget what to do with it!! The worst case I've ever seen is a little donkey which is in the next field to my horse. He very enthusiastically rogers the jenny donks in with him, and to be honest it all looks like it works perfectly if you REALLY know about stallions and what happens. He also goes very quiet and happy after he gets down :) I did check with his owner and she laughed and said he really was done properly.
 
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