Travelling Mare and Stallion in the Same Horsebox

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Very Strange Question i know..

I have a 3 horse lorry and only usually travel the Stallion with other geldings. We have no problems touch wood over the past 5 years apart form when once one of the gelding's pee'd in the back and the stallion had a squeal and spent the rest of the journey with his nose in the air!

Would the stallion cope being travelled in the back with a mare (13.2hh) with a gelding in between them or even a gap inbetween them?

Would they cope or would i just be asking for trouble?
 
I wouldn't have a problem in doing that.
There are plenty of showing people who take 2 or 3 mixed sexes on lorries.

If your lad is good to travel when going to compete etc, then no probs in putting a mare in the lorry as well, with maybe a section between them tho, particularly if you dont have full partition for him & sniffer board.

If will only be a problem if you let it - eg, mare can be a tart in season & can get under partition to annoy stallion......

As you will know, too many people have a hang up about even seeing an entire, let alone travelling one or being in the same arena as one :rolleyes: ;)
 
We recently moved our stallion to his new home in Westow North Yorkshire as the stud is expanding to two sites we loaded him first left a space it was a three horse lorry, then loaded his wife to be a maiden mare and they traveled really well not noise and unloaded well at the other end, a long time ago we use to show and would travel Lostock blue Stallion) one end of our wagon and our stallion Bassano Eclipse at the other end and our mares and a gelding in the middle, we had at that time a 6 horse HGV which made life easy for long distance travel as we showed all over the country.Hope all goes well
 
millitiger said:
Plenty of competition stallions are frequently travelled with mares without any issues.
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This ^^^^^

Clearly you know your stallion but Marcus has frequently travelled with mares on the lorry with either a space between or a gelding next to him and, periodically when living at home, with a mare that he knows and that is not in season directly next to him with a tall partition with guard at the head end. And a big haynet :D. He knows when its not on offer.
 
Thank you!

The Horsebox is like a second home to Chester (the stallion) and will go for hours travelling in it or standing in it at a show - but just didnt know whether to take the chance or not.

Will give it a go on a short journey and see how he gets on!
 
I know a showing stud that regularly travel stallions and mares on the same lorry. They smear vic ointmentent round stallions nostrils. Not sure how the boys feel about that but it seems to work and they have no interest in the mares. But like others have said, you know your boy best.
 
I travel Adonnis with a mare pretty much all the time when we go to comps. She is a real tart, and seems to time her seasons (all year round) with our outings! I haven't had a problem yet, but Adonnis seems to clearly differentiate between work trips and 'fun' trips. As others have said, you know your boy best, but I see no problem if you are confident that he will behave, and not get distracted!
 
We have travelled our Shagya stallion aged three with his dam in our two horse Ivor Williams and our Cleveland Bay stallion with the love of his life also in the Ivor Williams.

When two mares and a gelding came to France from Scotland they travelled in a big lorry with a stallion also on board.
 
my boys travel with whatever is next to them, bit of vix on the nose works a treat, to be honest they know if there in the box they are going to do a job, not to pay, never had a problem.
 
I suppose that it would depend upon the stallion in question, and his daily routine. If he lives in a stallion yard, with other entire horses, and only ever sees mares at covering time, than he may become a little ambitious. If on the other hand, he's used to seeing mares on a daily basis, and they are within sight and sound of each other, then I'd have thought that he should be fine.

I haven't seen it, but my OH has been to stud farms in Spain, and apparently it's common place to see stallions tied up beside mares, and they are as one might expect geldings to be.

Alec.
 
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