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Location: Randolph, Utah | My new guys acts super study, I caught him mounting a mare, he's now in seclusion for that one, and he's extremely aggressive to some of my other geldings. He is 18, is there anything you can do, or give them to help?
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Location: Georgia | Bump. I have two extremely hormonal geldings too... They seem to be worse than the mares. Both are buddy sour and pitch fits. |
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Location: Loco,Ok | That's called Proud Cut. You will always have problemsVet or who ever cut them did it wrong |
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| And you can put geldings on Regumate for studdy behavior as well ! |
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| Proud cut or a crypt that still has one hidden up there giving him testosterone. |
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Location: Windoming | I owned a gelding for twelve years, he was fifteen when I sold him. Was never studdy acting in all that time. Sold him to some people who had studs. He got studdy and started mounting mares. They called me all upset and asked me why I hadn't told them about it. I told them he had to have learned it at their house! I had mares and he never bothered them. |
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Location: South Central Florida | I have known several Geldings that were tested and found NOT to be Proud Cut. A true Proud Cut can bred a mare. The only true Proud Cut I was ever around, the mares treated exactally like a stud. I think they could smell something different. They would never let him get behind them EVER, they would kick at him on the trail, bite at him. He was a problem. You can have them blood tested.I do have a 27 year old gelding that is not proud cut and never has had a problem...but he will get hard and beat his belly. The mares could care less and I have owned him 22 of those years.Besides mounting, what is he doing? I have mares that are food aggressive, and if trail ridden feel they have to be in the lead...very bossy. I call it Alfa behavior. I would guess a gelding might have that too.Also, I never pasture new horses together until they have spent several weeks months across a pasture from each other...they can see each other, smell some, not touch but scream at each other. Then I haul them together someplace a few times. Something about a trailer ride together...bonds them.I have never owned a stud so I'm not really super familiar with what studdy behavior is like. |
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| He could have been given Equipose too. That would be my guess over proud cut. Equipose will turn the easiest going gelding into a fire breathing monster. |
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Location: Texas | Put him on regumate |
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| Could be a tumour on the kidney. I can't remember the name of the Tumour, but it secretes testosterone and causes geldings to become study.
There is a blood test to check for it,the testing phase I think takes 1-4 hours |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | He sounds super fun to deal with 
Regumate is what I would do.
I have had a few friends use the Mare Magic on study geldings too. Seemed to work for them. |
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Location: Carpenter, WY | I would take him to the vet and have blood drawn to see what his testosterone level is first off |
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Location: Where ever the pipeline takes us, TX | I was actually going to make a thread on this too. I have one that is very stud-y... He bred a mare 1 week before his appointment to be gelded as a late yearling (total accident!). He is 5 now, and I have to keep him separate from the mares or else he covers them just like a stallion. He shares a fenceline with my training horses, and every time I get a mare in, they seem to instantly come in to heat and spend a week standing at the fence with their rear ends glued to his face while he teases them, or running the fence and screaming for him to try and get his attention if he's not near by. I wish I had somewhere else to keep him away from the mares, drives me nuts!!! I still have the baby who was the result of the accidental breeding, she is actually really nice!
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| I grew up with a horse that was proud cut. He was a pain the rear as far as who he could go with or where he could go in the pens. Anyone could ride him, but had to be careful on the ground with him. He was a stud until he was 6 or 8. He would bellar and squeal all the time!
Now I have a a 14ish year old gelding that we don't know his previous history. We worked on a ranch and my husband made him what he is today, but they got him when he was around 5 years old. He was pastured with saddle horses and bucking horses, both mares and geldings and never had a problem with him. When we moved 3 years ago they gave him to us and he turned Studdy. Weird! I can not put him in with the mares once they come into season. Over winter I can, but come spring, I have to separate.
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| clampitt - 2016-09-19 2:20 PM
That's called Proud Cut. You will always have problemsVet or who ever cut them did it wrong
They don't have to be proud cut to act like this...
Steroids or even ventipulmin can make some geldings act this way. |
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| IRunOnFaith - 2016-09-21 3:47 PM
He sounds super fun to deal with Regumate is what I would do.
I have had a few friends use the Mare Magic on study geldings too. Seemed to work for them.
Just get you some mare magic or order bulk raspberry leaves to help even out his temperament. |
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