Stallion/Mare cohabitation

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I have an Arab stallion(7yrs) kept at a stable. I have at home a 5 acre field with a shelter and water supply, for summer. (Grain supplied) I have recently acquired a mare (15yrs. Not Arab) and would like to keep them together.
My experience is limited and I would appreciate suggestions.
 
BROWN813 said:
I have an Arab stallion(7yrs) kept at a stable. I have at home a 5 acre field with a shelter and water supply, for summer. (Grain supplied) I have recently acquired a mare (15yrs. Not Arab) and would like to keep them together.
My experience is limited and I would appreciate suggestions.
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They'll be fine. And it's nice for each of them to have the company of one another.
 
Presuming this is a genuine question, if you want a foal go ahead, if the mare is barren (as in infertile) go ahead.

Stallions and mares co-exist quite happily once they get the sex thing out of the way, much better for them that way. Of course it doesn't suit everyone, every horse, or every facility and it is very much a case of playing it by ear. If the stallion is very valuable/competing/a show horse etc, etc then it isn't perhaps as advisable, as put two horses together (especially a mare and a stallion to start with) and there will always be the risk of injury as you know of course.

Zeus runs with weanlings during the winter and mares in the summer, once the deed is done then all the posturing and noisy chatting up stops then they are fine. He is a mellow chap however he is kept (lives out 24/7) but happier when he does have a companion or two. Some stallions become easier to handle when kept with mares, others don't, be warned, some get very stroppy and possessive.

If you decide not to go down the co-habitation route, get some good stout posts up in your field some rails and mains powered fencing. You will want at least a 10' walkway between paddocks, walking a mare/stallion past another horse along anything narrower than that can be a real hazard.
 
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Vixen Van Debz said:
I think Kokopelli's Trolling thread should be moved out of Soapbox. Obviously the advice isn't being received or utilised... lol!
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Benefit of the doubt but dubious :)

Troll! ........................................................ Where?


Do we need the Troll Buster?
 
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Go for it, there will be some posturing, flirting and hate and love but generally the dust will settle quite quickly than if it was a group of mares, a bit like a heterosexual human relationship.My Cleveland Bay stallion, Boo, lives out with my 11 mares, we have a spate of who is favourite then all settles down,especially this time of the year,and like other people have said there is the sex side the the hormones settle down and they usually get along better than a herd or mares who are always bickering --anyone notice the similarity to us humans?
 
Damnation said:
Enfys if you would like to ship him to me.. ;) :D
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:D Nah. You have the pygmys though...please...take the pygmys.

I can tell you where to find one just like him though...he's the flotsam from the goat dairy trade, (like bull calves they are sold or shot) any unit will have Saanan bucklings like him, he was $5 at a day old at market. Some idiot bought him to live in an apartment:eek: and he was given to me because they didn't realise how much work bottle feeding was. Be prepared to have them grow to 30" or so though.

Few days old, already practising his Troll busting techniques:
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