Mare in season..gelding being a PITA....

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I've always kept mares and gelding together...in varying combinations- never been a problem. I currently have 2 geldings and a very slutty mare:rolleyes:

I bought a gelding last september.....obviously now she's come into season and he's shall we say.....very attached to her. Doesn't help that she's practically walking around the field backwards.....He's trying to mount her and he and the other gelding are being narky with each other. He's a PITA to catch because all he wants to do is be near the mare....so I have to bring her in to get hold of him. He's started being nappy and stroppy when ridden, and distracted ......although if you are firm with him he will eventually settle and work nicely.

Now......he's 5. Prior to me buying him he was kept on mixed livery for about 6 months, and before that he was always kept with geldings- (no reason other than that's what his owners happened to own). He's good to handle, groom, tack up and mount when you get him away from the mare- not grumpy or nasty. He's deffo been gelded....I'm thinking ( hoping) that he will settle down and its literally just exciting for him being a young lad with limited experience of mares....I vaguely remember the highland got a bit lairy at the same age and he's fine now.

I've got the vet coming out in a fortnight for routine jabs- should I ask her to take bloods to make sure he's not riggy? Or am I making too much of this.....
 
It's more than likely that he's just wound up by the mare.

I've always had horses in mixed herds - but my previous horse could be a pain around in season mares, and it was a relief when he went out with an all gelding herd.
 
I'd give him time to adjust to his new found feelings...it's exciting stuff having a mare offering it out to you on plate, specially when your a young man :D

Won't harm to mention it to the vet but if he'd not displayed riggy behaviour in the past then I wouldn't worry too much. :)
 
My last pony was a gelding and he was terrible always mounting the mares had the vet check him out and he said it was just how he was he liked the ladies lol.
 
Mine has been like this over my filly this year. I think it's just him being a teenager and he's settled down again now. Fingers crossed he'll grow out of it!
 
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