Posted 2014-06-04 3:02 PM Subject: Gelding a stallion...
Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving
How many of you have done it and have had him calm down so he could be turned out with a mixed herd. I want no more babies here and am considering just retiring him and gelding him instead of dealing with other peoples mares to breed if I stand him. I have a couple of his daughters if I want to pass him on in the future. My guy has the best manners and is calm already turned out with a mixed herd if bred mares and geldings in the winter. Think without his nads he will calm down almost to that all the time? If everything goes well I won't have another gelding around besides him anyway... But I never know my one person gelding may be back again with my luck. I'd love to just run everyone together and rotate big pastures instead of worrying about paddocks, they all get along most of the time.
Eta he's been pasture bred/hand bred before and gets along great with mares and babies even in breeding season too
Posted 2014-06-04 3:03 PM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
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Put him with your meanest broodie after you geld him and I'd say he will be calmed down enough to turn out with everyone else after she teaches him some manners.
Posted 2014-06-04 3:24 PM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving
I guess I should add he's 12 this year and was used for breeding for several years by his previous owner before I purchased him too. I can't see him being aggressive because he's so low on the totem pole the rest of the time and he's not any other time. He's also the smallest horse I own (poor midget cow Bred lol) and everyone towers over him and out weighs him but I don't know. He's likely going to get gelded anyway I just want him to be able to enjoy himself with his friends all year.
Posted 2014-06-04 7:14 PM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
Best of the Badlands
Location: You never know where I will show up......
Depends on the horse. We had an 8 year old stud that had pasture bred several mares, but he was really quiet and well mannered as a stud, so he was even better as a gelding. Took him no time at all to adapt and he's been a steady ranch mount now for years. We acquired a 5 year old stud this spring that was horribly ill mannered and studdy acting. He got gelded and started 30 days of hard riding the day he arrived here. A month later, he's much better than he was, but he's got a long way to go before I will call him nice. And he may always be somewhat of a jerk.
Posted 2014-06-04 11:03 PM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
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Posts: 18425 Location: Riding Crackhead.
A few years ago I gelded a 12 yr old stud and a 11 yr old stud that both had bred quite a few mares. They were extremely well mannered stallions and continued to be well mannered geldings. I sold one of them but the one I kept can be kept with any mare, gelding or a combo of both.
Posted 2014-06-05 12:18 AM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving
CYA Ranch - 2014-06-04 11:03 PM
A few years ago I gelded a 12 yr old stud and a 11 yr old stud that both had bred quite a few mares. They were extremely well mannered stallions and continued to be well mannered geldings. I sold one of them but the one I kept can be kept with any mare, gelding or a combo of both.
This is what I wanted to hear I love my guy and everything about him and love his babies but life is just getting crazy and I don't want any more foals born right now here.
Posted 2014-06-05 7:30 AM Subject: RE: Gelding a stallion...
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Posts: 4244 Location: Okla
We had one that was a ranch stud for 18 yrs, they gelded him and sent him to the sale barn. He was my 5 yr old son's first horse. Best kid horse I could have asked for.
Gelding a stallion...
