Shall i turn my 2 year old away?

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beckyjg312

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I have a 2 year old Welsh X TB that is very badly behaved, he still acts like a colt and is proving very hard to handle. I have thought about turning him away for a year until i can break him to let him grow up. What are your opinions?
 
If he is wild, I would want to keep handling him every day, but I wouldn't want to make it feel like work. Just catch him, pick his feet out, give him a bit of a fuss and something in a bucket to make it a good experience. Are you sure he was gelded properly ?
 
If you leave him for a year he's going to be bigger & stronger & even harder to handle!
This needs nipping in the bud now.

I assume he is gelded, was he done with you or a previous home?
Could there be a possibility he is a rig?
 
No, handle him everyday. Take him everywhere you go, even just trips to the muck heap and back! Turning away will be the worst thing to do.
 
He was gelded about 2 months ago i have had him since he was 6 months and the vet showed me the epididymus so he is definitley all cut. I thought having him cut would help and for the first few weeks it did but then all of a sudden he just turned nasty! I handle him everyday as i practice in hand showing with him but it has reached the point where he wont let me catch him without rearing and kicking and its come out of nowhere as he was handled everyday twice a day.
 
He's probly still settling down after being cut. I'd carry on as normal as if you stop handing him he will just learn that if he behaves badly he gets to do whatever he wants. If i was you i would wear a hat, glove and suitable footware to handle him. I would also use a chain over his nose if he is rearing when being lead.

You need to find ways to manage his behaviour, not avoid it as he will only get worse if hes left to carry on.

Always stay safe though. Good luck
 
Start feeding him a calmer for a month or 2, just while his testrone levels subside,can take up to 6 months, sounds more like his teenage years, where he's pushing the boundaries with you.
 
is he with or near any mares that have been in season recently? my 2yr old gelding was a right pain in the butt the past few weeks and now the mare isn't in season anymore he has gone back to normal!
 
I have put him on to cool and collected - designed for horses with feed related behavior issues. He is next to 2 mares so that might be the problem, i will keep handling him best i can, i always go out in steelies and my helmet! lol
 
feed sound good, mine is on calm and condition as he still needs to put on weight but once he's there he will be on something similar! keep an eye on the mares and see if they are doing anything that will be winding him up! the mare out in my field is a right tart, she really encourages my boy, but theres only 3 horses at my yard so i don't have a choice but to have them out together! he reared up the other week and really hurt my back but seems to have really chilled out since she stopped being in season! all though she is still 'making eyes at him' at times!

he started trying to bite me and the mares owner obviously trying to see if he could dominate us as he started to get away with it with the in season mare but that appears to have stopped now!

Good luck and hope he starts to chill out soon!
 
TROLL WHY???
Why can't anybody post without somebody shouting troll.
How about helping.?

I agree keep handling him and move the mares if you can as long as he's got company. I hope your being firm with him, don't be afraid to tell him off
 
Ahhh the terrible two's, there is good reason for this saying :)

Do not turn him away, unless you turn him out in a herd of colts or with a dominant mare. He is a typical 2yo and needs to learn that he is not the boss, I have a dominant mare who is always turned out with bolshy 2yo's, she is just brilliant at teaching them humility, I also think that a naughty 2yo sees her defer to me so she also helps by confirming my position as leader.

In the absence of the aforementioned colt herd or dominant mare, get someone used to the vagaries of 2yo's to help you.
 
Amaranta said:
Ahhh the terrible two's, there is good reason for this saying :)

Do not turn him away, unless you turn him out in a herd of colts or with a dominant mare. He is a typical 2yo and needs to learn that he is not the boss, I have a dominant mare who is always turned out with bolshy 2yo's, she is just brilliant at teaching them humility, I also think that a naughty 2yo sees her defer to me so she also helps by confirming my position as leader.

In the absence of the aforementioned colt herd or dominant mare, get someone used to the vagaries of 2yo's to help you.
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Ours is the opposite. We have a nanny gelding who wears the trousers in the herd...What was our quiet, backwards thinking gelding...is now a fire breathing headmaster type who keeps the colts well in their place. He's been out with them doing that job for the last 3 years now...he's brilliant with the weanlings or anything behind/smaller, but any older ones which decide to act upon their *******s for a change....are certainly nipped in the bud by him! Everyone mistakes him for a stallion out in the herd....though to us he always seems like a stroppy mare tbh! If we ever have to move all the colts, you just hop on him and can move them all. He's found his calling in life. He's never been so forwards and full of life now. Weird horse. Maybe he should have been a mare. :p

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beckyjg312 said:
I have put him on to cool and collected - designed for horses with feed related behavior issues. He is next to 2 mares so that might be the problem, i will keep handling him best i can, i always go out in steelies and my helmet! lol
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I would cut out any hard feed from his diet at this time of year, it will only give him more energy.
Hay & grass should be plenty for this time of year.

Echo Bravo said:
Try the liquid calmer called Magic in his feed
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I wouldn't bother with a calmer - testosterone will override it! :p

Wonderful pics CS! :D
 
beckyjg312 said:
I have a 2 year old Welsh X TB that is very badly behaved, he still acts like a colt and is proving very hard to handle. I have thought about turning him away for a year until i can break him to let him grow up. What are your opinions?
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Sounds like he needs consistent daily handling to me. So no I wouldn't turn away.

And if you're going to feed him - Hi Fibre cubes only.
 
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