Will he always behave like a stallion?....

hijacking a little, sorry, but it could be relevant.

Tia, another question, do you keep your mares and geldings separate? (Obviously Ezzy had his own little band) It's just a question that comes up now and again and as you have so many horses I wondered if it made a difference to herd politics.
 
No I make no sexual distinction in which horses go in together - the only criterion is that they all get along together well. I do happen to have one field that only has geldings in it but I have other fields which have mares and geldings in. I tend to err towards sizes aswell though. Little ones don't go in with big ones.

Ezzy lived with a little gelding, some colt foals which were later gelded and all of the mares at one time or other. He only doesn't get to live with the mares when they are in-season - they get shipped out to another field for a week and then once they are finished squirting, they go back in with him.

Right now he is living with Golden the pregnant mare and Kate our infertile mare. He's right next to Cloud and she was in with them up till a month ago. I only took her out as Golden kicked her by accident one day and I didn't want to risk anything going wrong at this late stage. Cloud and foal will go back in with that little band if she ever foals!

I do need to have another move around though some time in the next month or so as there's a couple of fields that I want to rest but I'm not sure whether to let him go with the big geldings for fear of them attacking him again. I'm really not sure they would do this now though so will see.
 
We aquired a gelding who had been gelded aged 9 and had been a proper stallion before that.
It took 18 months for him to lose the stallion behaviour and all that's left now is he's a bit of a thug at times in the field, and is noisier than a normal gelding (squeals when sniffing etc)
He has no desire to cover at all, but prefers to have a small harem to himself but grazes with geldings too.
It takes a while for the male hormones to sort of leave their system, and what we did in the end was turn him away with a mixed herd for a year. After that he could be grazed in any sort of mix.
I would chuck him out with a gang of older gelings, yes he may get a few kicks, but he will also learn he is a gelding not a colt.
 
Thanks everyone for your comments..Henryhorn, I think you're right. He needs to learn from others how to behave. I think I was expecting too much of him TBH. A few months isn't long when you've been a stallion for 6yrs and my tarty mares aren't helping the situation..poor sod!!
 
some do and some dont but can take 6 months or more to settle we have two on our yard gelded years ago and they are both gits worse than stallions one even trys to mount people confused i think he is
 
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