Mares or Gelding??

When a mare is having a good day they are unbeatable.

But I can't get on with them, hate the mood swings and find they don't suit my personality aswell as geldings.

Give me a gelding any day :)
 
I'm generally a gelding girl. All mine have been boys, bar one. She was very steady and non hormonal. I would quite happily have a mare if she was like this all the time but I have found almost all of them are hormonal and I just can't be dealing with that! Lol. I like the way that you always know what to expect with them, they (generally anyway, you always get exceptions) won't be lovely one minute and stroppy the next.
 
I definitely get on best with mares, always have done. My own mare doesn't seem mareish at all but has a sense of humour, I find many geldings lacklustre.
 
Would have to say mares. All my mares have been brill and even in season do their job everyday.
I had a gelding as my last horse and he was nothing but a nightmare. A riggy gelding who was a handful when mares were in season.
 
Mares 100% for me. I love their mood swings, the snuggles and the swipes. They are complex because they are entire and that is what makes them so much fun and intresting

You're getting the whole animal with a mare.:D

Geldings can be nice but they are to samey for me I'm afraid;)
 
I am pleasantly surprised that lots of you love mares like I do! None of my friends do! I adore mares and although I have owned geldings in the past too, I could never get attached to them like I do with mares. Each to their own ......
 
Mares have to like their rider - you really are a team with a mare, and if you get that connection they're miles better than a gelding, if you don't they're a nightmare - there is no inbetween!

Geldings are generally easier, but don't give as much quite often - they have to be told! Geldings are often more awkward - they don't have hormones as an excuse, and they often work out what they can get away with and play on it.

On my yard, the geldings play fight and chase around, the mare just ignores them 90% of the time, except when in season, when she turns into a complete hussy.

I sometimes think that I prefer geldings, but then I go xc on my wonderful mare and I know why I prefer mares!
 
I have both a mare and a gelding, both utterly different and I love them both. I must admit the mare does drive me a bit mad when she's being really quirky but I still adore her. I think mares get a really bad press, very unfairly at times. If they misbehave they get blamed for being hormonal or a " bl**dy mare" i.e. gender base for their behaviour. If a gelding misbehaves, no one says "he's just being a gelding". I have had geldings who have been far far more difficult, moody, mean etc than my mare, so I feel protective of her. There's definately a bond because we are both girls.

Funnily enough, I find many parallels between my gelding and my male whippet, and my mare and my whippet bitch. The boys are certainly easier to "do" and more chilled about life in general, whilst both girls are far more sensitive, worried types who get easily upset, don't like to be "fiddled" with (e.g. groomed, feet cleaned etc) and are hyper aware of any change in my mood. But equally the girls have an extra depth and dimension to them.

Has anyone else found parallels between mares/gelding and bitches/dogs?
 
i've had mares, geldings, colts and stallions. the only ones that i really got on with have been the geldings.
i found the mares went to my OH and i lost the 'connection' with them. the geldings i've had have all been loyal to me.
 
I'v worked with and owned both. I'v only really come across 3 very mareish mares and it still didnt really bother me i just ignore it. I wouldnt be put off a horse because of what gender it is so long as it was the right horse for me, however one of the mares on the yard i keep my boy at is very ill right now currently getting tested for this that and the next thing but it is looking like cancer in the ovaries. I have gelding now and love him to pieces and i can assure you he has his quirks.
 
I have always had mares since I was a child. In all the ponies & horses I had owned I have only had 2 fantastic ones, but they were 2 tom boyish mares! I decided now I am getting on a bit that I would buy a gelding this time round, now my mare has retired, and think he is fabulous!!! Always the same when I get on him, can leave him for a 6 weeks without riding him and he is still the same and he is a 17hh 4 year old RID!!!

Would not go back to a mare now! Geldings all the way!!!
 
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