Will they recognise each other?

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My friend is taking on my 2.5 year old gelding. I have his mum and friend is bringing baby pony to our yard. Will CC and BP recognise each other? He was weaned at 5 months and they haven't seen each other since.
 
Mine was weaned at <1 year and separated for 6 months, when reunited he recognised mum straightaway, she thought he was a handsome new man on the block!! But they soon remembered eachother and were very very close. Then they were separated for 5 years at livery, now they are together again. She no longer treats him as her 'baby' so I think she just thinks of him as a friend but he definitely still knows she's 'mum'. So yes, I think baby will recognise mum anyway.
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I think baby will recognise Mum, but as he was weaned so young and will have changed so much, I doubt whether Mum will recognise baby. Young animals seem to smell differently from older animals. It is 'baby breath'. It is the way others who are adults recognise them as youngsters and treat them more gently.
 
My mare was in a field group with five others at our first yard. I moved yards and two years later one of the other mares from the group moved to our new yard. This mare went into a field group with my mare again. When they saw each other, they both whinnied and spent the rest of the afternoon grooming and nuzzling and grazing side by side. It was lovely to watch.
 
I think they will.

We loaned a horse that used to be on the same yard as B (when i loaned him) and there were in separate fields but used to be out together they both walked up to the gate and started grooming it was soo sweet to watch!

I think they do know/remember each other and know us as B used to neigh even if i visited after a month.
 
In my opinion, and from observation, yes, horses do know and recognise each other, whatever their relationship has been, they may not like each other though :)

I have had plenty of youngsters come back after leaving as weanlings or yearlings, every time their dams have just sniffed and kind of done the 'oh, you're back then, get thee behind me and BEHAVE' sort of thing and the herd has got on as before. I have horses that come back to me for winter after the show or rodeo season, their owners say that those horses are yelling the moment they get near here, they bounce off the trailer and give all impressions of being happy to see their herd mates again.
 
Yes! I do second Enfys, though; there was a mare on our old yard whose 3yo son went off for backing. She knew it was him the minute he came back, and adored him. Another of her sons moved on, she knew immediately, and she hated him with a passion.
 
Many years ago we took our then new pony (about 7 years old) to pony club. Pony proceeded to get very excited when they saw this other pony from the group, and vice versa. Not fussed about any of the other horses there. We later found out they were mother and daughter who hadn't seen each other since weaning (ours was the daughter).
 
SuperH said:
Many years ago we took our then new pony (about 7 years old) to pony club. Pony proceeded to get very excited when they saw this other pony from the group, and vice versa. Not fussed about any of the other horses there. We later found out they were mother and daughter who hadn't seen each other since weaning (ours was the daughter).
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What a lovely story.
 
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