Putting new horses together in paddock

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Please advise,

I have had my pony for about 4 weeks now, he had a separate paddock so horses can say hi to each other and get accustomed to each other over the electric fencing, anyways just moved my pony this morning into the paddock with the other geldings (theres about 6 other geldings) and seemed to go rather well, not as much running about, squealing, bucking etc as I thought there would be, so went off to work.

I popped over during my lunch break to check on him and as I drove up I could see all the horses chilled out just eating and my pony darting about still, I get to the paddock and one of the horses has bitten him on his side, and he is not happy, he tried to bite me and was kicking the metal gate as to want to get out......
I was very upset to see him like this and wanted to get him out the paddock and into his stable, but left him there as I did not want to just take him out and have to start again.

I am going to put some sudocream on his bite when I finish work, but please is there any more advice to what to do as it was horrible seeing him so hetup :(
 
This is fairly normal tbh. When horses first go in the herd members are often very interested and friendly with the newbie. After a couple of hours the horse who is normally at the bottom of the pecking order will come and try to assert his place within the herd and try to make sure that newbie is below him. Sometimes the second in command will also do this but very rarely will the boss of the herd do this. If newbie is happy to be at the bottom and accepts that, then no problems usually ensue after that, however if newbie doesn't want to be at the bottom them there can be a struggle going on.
 
oh its a huge paddock, its a yard on a farm so has plenty of grass and space for all of them...

I checked on him last night and he had a few bite marks which I tended to and put him back out and then went back this morning, and everything seemed quiet, tho he was very eager to come in! lol
Will just preserver just very upsetting seeing him so het up so sort of panicked.....thanks for your comments guys much appreciated :) x
 
If you can, watch the dynamics of the herd over the next few days, its probably just a settling in period, id stick a fly rug or something light on, so the bites might not catch the skin so much, and more scrape the rug, in all the years ive had horses ive only ever had to move one pony out that had been introduced to a herd because 1 gelding took a patricular dislike to him, never gave the pony a minute, would hunt him all over the fied, at times charging from one side of the field to another to get him, wee pony wasnt assertive, wasnt even sidling in to the herd but the other horse despised him and would corner, bite and try to kick, chasing him down relentlessly thats not on in my book.
 
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