Straying Stallion !

[Nettle123]

On Sunday we had a loose horse tear up our drive at great speed very over excited. Our own horses were going ballistic including our heavily infoal mare. Eventually my husband caught him and put him into one of our paddocks. He promptly double barrelled the fence between the geldings taking part of it out and then attempted to climb into the mares paddock.

It was immediately obvious that he was an entire. After a couple of hours and lots of ringing round he was collected by his owners. Apparantely he had been left in a field on his own when his last mare was taken away so hardly surprising he escaped and ended up rampaging around the district!. He was very lucky not to hit a car.

Just before he turned up we had taken our mare out for a bit of a leg stretch. If we had met him running loose not sure what would have happened.

Just wondered whether any of you have had experience meeting a loose stallion whilst out hacking, I should imagine it must happen if you ride on the moors/mountains. We have a lot of children hacking around here as we are on a bridle path, tbh it would be one of my worst nightmares. He was only about 14.2, a coloured cob but pretty scary all the same.

 

[spike123]

I haven't had it happen personally but I know locally a stallion managed to get out on the roads.The police came to deal with it and aparantly put it into a field with 2 mares in because it was the nearest field with horses in it.I don't know if any of the mares ended up in foal but I guess it is a worry to all mare owners with stallions living locally.I guess most police officers wouldn't have a clue how to tell a stallion from a gelding or even a mare come to that.

 

[Destiny95]

Someone dumped a young stallion in one of our hay fields last year. Lady next door who had several shetlands in foal and a shetland stallion called us giving us a real mouthful saying it was irresponsible to put our stallion in the field next to hers with only sheep netting between them (which of course it would have been) but it wasn't ours! The neighbour was going nuts at us, the two stallions were squaring up to each other over the fence and the owners were nowhere to be seen. The police said they couldn't help because it wasn't a danger to the public. The RSPCA wouldnt help because the horses weren't in danger. We were stuck with it! It's a real loop hole!