opinions on gelding the new boy

vixiem

vixiem

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So my new sec d arrived on saturday hes a colt who will be 2 in may. Im hoping to do some showing with him and when hes older im just wanting a good all rounder i have a sec d at the minute and love the breed. I hadnt decided whether to have him cut or not before i got him but after just 2 days im thinking its only fair to have him gelded. He has to have a grill on his door and cant be turned out with the others and is full of himself!! Lol this side of it isnt a problem i can deal with him being a bolshy boy thats just manners but i wAnt him to be able to go out and play and be a baby in the field all summer. But the lady i bought him off disagrees and thinks i should keep him entire especially if i want to show him. Now to me this just seems selfish to him. Just wanted your opinions
 
Geld him and let him have a life, if you kept him at home and he could go out with others it may be fair but not in a livery yard where his life will be behind bars.:(
 
I agree with you, I'd definitely get him castrated, sooner rather than later. Better for him, better for you. Then he can go and play and be a normal baby. I see no point in keeping him entire, even if he has great bloodlines as Sec D stallions are numerous, he'd have to be very exeptional to justify keeping him entire imo.
 
I bought my Welsh D when he had just turned 2. Kept him entire until he was 4 (last year). He was no worse off for it, had always been a 'people' horse rather than a 'horse' horse if you know what I mean. He does still follow the stallion traits such as his large muscular neck (NOT fat) and he poops in a pile rather than all over the place. I can 'play' with him and he enjoys it - can't turn him out with others as he can be VERY dominating but this doesn't bother him.. I could turn him out on his own or keep him in on his own and he'd be happy. Just go by your own instinct, he's your horse at the end of the day. I always said I would keep mine entire if I did it all over again and probably would have not had him cut until a 5 year old when he had matured a bit more.

Pics please?? :D
 
Im sooooo glad you all agree ive no intention of using him for breeding i just want a nice sec d and he happened to be a colt. Vets will be rung first thing!! :) he wont be friends with me lol
 
agree with last post! ignore previous owner, if she wanted him kept entire she should not have sold him.

I have come to the same conclusion with my colt, 18 months. He is lovely, but i have neither the facilities nor the experience to deal with a full grown stallion, and for his sake and mine, he will have the op and a much more secure future!
 
Yeah i know its nothing to do with previous owner i was just intrested that she didnt agree and wondered what everyone else thought. Its going to be better for him to be a gelding i hate having to seperate him.
 
If you don't want to use him as a stallion, then he will be FAR better off gelded, and life for all will be a lot easier. FWIW I've recently gelded an 11 year old stallion for his own quality of life, and he's a much happier boy after the op, now able to go out and live with other horses and not stressed off his head with a restricted, pointless life.
 
I was expecting to see a photo of a rather moderate Sec D. But WOW op, he is very nice indeed. I would be in two minds TBH, as he is a cracking sort. I could see him under saddle at the RWAS in time. If you have the facilities, the capabilities, I would consider keeping him entire. Depending on his temperament obviously.
 
Oh no!! Now im doubting myself!! His temperament is quite good justabob hes quiet in his stable bit pushy but full of himself when i get him out but i cant turn him out at my livery yard so hes stuck in poor boy!! Im torn!!
 
I have a rule stallions and colts are still horses and need turnout, if they cant be turned out they are gelded, previous owner means previous so nothing to do with them what you do now, I think you are right op at 2 years old he needs to be out playing and being a horse.

He is really nice but if you keep him entire whats the point if you dont intend to use him for breeding, if you do move him to a yard where he can go out it will ruin him keeping him in a stable 24/7 I have seen it happen its not nice.

I kept my arab entire until he was 4 he was easy to handle and he was turned out every day, but I decided he was never going to cover anything so had him gelded best thing I did for him I think.
 
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Oh no!! Now im doubting myself!! His temperament is quite good justabob hes quiet in his stable bit pushy but full of himself when i get him out but i cant turn him out at my livery yard so hes stuck in poor boy!! Im torn!!
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Eeeek! I don't know. There are so many SecD stallions out there that are not a match on your young boy. He really is very nice. I am not helping......am I?
 
Im never going to use him for breeding but showing wise it would be a shame if he was gelded and never stood up against stallions but i dont think its worth him having a rubbish life for the sake of some rosettes?

And no justabob i had my mind made up until you said how nice he is!! Is there no hope of us showing successfully as a gelding??
 
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Im never going to use him for breeding but showing wise it would be a shame if he was gelded and never stood up against stallions but i dont think its worth him having a rubbish life for the sake of some rosettes?
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No, you are right, geld him.:(
 
Nuts off!. The WPCS are now encouraging gelding classes & even the RWAS are holding gelding only classes, they are really popular. If hes a cracking colt now he will be an amazing gelding!
 
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Nuts off!. The WPCS are now encouraging gelding classes & even the RWAS are holding gelding only classes, they are really popular. If hes a cracking colt now he will be an amazing gelding!
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You are right and as you say geldings do have a class of their own now and are not second class citizens anymore.
 
Geld him and let him be happy!

You have bought him so its up to you.
Not the previous owner.

If he is correctly fed and muscled up and looked after then he will still look great!

This idea of keeping them entire to build them up, i believe is rubbish!
 
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