Is this normal for a gelding?

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Hi, i was just hoping for someone to put my mind at ease. I've had my gelding for 3 years now and he's been with the same two feildmates all of that length. These a a old gelding and a mare. He has always been quite bulshy in the feild with the other gelding trying to be 'the main man'. At the moment the old gelding is seperate due to an injury (nothing to do with my one) and when we came down to the farm to day my boy was mounting the mare. Is this normal for a gelding to do? As i said he's been in the feild with the mare for 3 years so surerly something would have happened if he wasn't gelded? could it be the mare is just in season?
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It's normal - as I found out the other day. Would have preferred that they did it away from the gate that I was trying to hold it shut with one hand whilst holding my boy's lead rope in the other!
 
Thanks, that makes me feel alot better now! He's an traditional cob from ireland so i have a feeling he may have been gelded late (not meaning anything bad bout the irish, people have just told me things, but i know all irish arn't like that! :D)
 
If I were you I would seperate them. 2 years ago a gelding jumped on my mare in the field and landed on her sacroiliac joint. 2 years and a huge vet bill later my mare still isnt right.
 
I had a huge WB gelding mount my TB gelding which pushed his pelvis several inches lower on left side and cost me lots with physio. Our donkeys mount each other, boy on boy generally as girls aren't that interested!
 
I've had to seperate my three yo from the mares as he persists in mounting them, he's had several kicks, one of which resulted in a bone chip, another wound on his hock that got infected. I saw him gelded, and his "love spuds" are in a pot of formalin in my kitchen, so I'm pretty confident there's nothing amiss there! Maybe some do push their luck, and other's aren't bothered!
 
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