Owning / handling / managing Stallions

My boy is also treated like the other horses but we never forget what he is... so with respect but not different and definitely no getting complacent with him!!

He is stabled with my gelding not far away so he has got company and he is in a seperate paddock with the gelding next to him and this seems to work really well.

I intend to have in the internal block once they are built which will have geldings and mares in it, its likey I will put him in an end stable with my gelding next door as they know eachother already.

I have had one incident when I first got him and he got away from me and ended up jumping the electric fence then a 4' hedge and landed in a ditch... I thought I had killed him, I'd only had him a week!! But it was totally my fault being complacent and he only ran as he thought the lunge rein was chasing him, typical baby behaviour rather than stallion!! I now don't lead him with a lunge rein!! He is lead out to the field in either a parelli headcollar or a normal one and he is fortunately very well behaved, I tried the chain over the nose and even just a rope but he hates it and is very sensitive so he's better without.... but saying that he isn't in a field near mares so I might have to review this if we change our paddocks round at all, is which case I would probably use his riding bridle (Different bit to his covering one)

We used a bridle with a rubber bit for covering and he was good, it was only his first time and he only covered her 3 times but by the 3rd time he knew what he was doing but had respect for OH who handled him, he got one whallop for standing up and waving his feet at OH in excitement just before he was taken in with the mare on the 2nd covering and that sorted him out!!

He used to get very excited, vocal and 5 legs... whenever he saw another horse but I now he's a lot better, he is told to shut up and pretty much ignored and we carry on with the other horse, after a few times he realised getting himself in a state doesn't get him anywhere so he has calmed down and although friendly isn't so randy at everything!!

Here are my boys, Stallion on the right gelding on the left!
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Thank you all,

I guess I have been reading too much into this, and it is a case of just staying on my toes (as usual). I just wanted to know was there anything specifically different about them (apart from the obvious!)

Has anybody any lunging tips, as a lot of stallion stories typically involve a stallion charging at the handler in the centre!

Thank you all again,
Much appreciated!
 
Hmm lunging...I certainly don't have the problems you describe!! My chap who is only 4 is a complete lazy sod when lunging, its all too much like hard work..... He'd much rather stand looking at the scenery around him!!

I spend the whole lunging session growling and getting after him with the lunge whip, yes he does turn in on me but only as he's too lazy to carry on!!

Thankfully now he's backed he is becoming very keen on his work and his attitude towards lunging does not reflect his enthusiasm for ridden work, in fact he was postitively bouncing up the road yesterday taking the lead even past the scary grit piles the council have dumped on our lane!!
 
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Totally agree with Foxfolly here all of our stallions have always lunged perfectly normally

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Mine finds lunging mind-numbingly boring - he'd FAR rather go for a hack - and he tends to make his feelings known - see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gx8IuH9aFQ

But he's a pussycat in every other way - so I forgive him this little bit of naughtiness. (He is 17 - so a bit old to be teaching new tricks!)
 
Ah bless him, certainly looks like he's enjoying himself playing up!! I wish Felix would consider expending some energy like that on the lunge... As said above he is bone idle when it comes to lunging!!!

But he was an angel out for his longest hack yet today, even had to cope with local farmers hunter hooning up and down the field as we rode past!!
 
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