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Location: SE Oklahoma | I recently purchased a horse, he has a good disposition and is good under saddle, he doesn’t know much but that’s fine. But come to find out he is a JERK to my other horses. He is currently in my barn lot, that neighbors with my front pasture where I keep my 3 mares. My mares get along with everyone. However if they stand too close to the fence the new gelding will charge and bite them over the fence. He bit my best mare Lilly in the face today and i yelled and threw a bucket at him, broke my heart. He's not disrespectful towards me at all, just other horses. My main mount Duke is a gelding and he is currently the boss around here. He gets aggressive too but only towards geldings. He was a stud until he was 6 and I always figured that’s why he's mean. I had to juggle horses around because when Duke got next to new horse the fight was on over the fence. Rearing up acting like idiots. I'm terrified one will try to jump it, or one escape and they kill each other. I have to have them two fences apart, and the only way I can keep it that way is if he lives in the barn, and that’s no fun. I use to have an electric collar but it doesn’t work, might invest in another one. Bought it several years ago for another mean horse I had, he would chase horses through the fence. Found a new home for him pretty quick. I’m pretty sure I’m going to put 30 days on and sell the new gelding, one jerk horse is enough to deal with, don’t want to have two around. Haha Does anyone have any tips or have dealt with this before? It’s so frustrating; I just want everyone to get along! Thanks for letting me vent. Lol |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Find someone close to you with a pasture full of mean mares. They'll teach him. |
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Location: SE Oklahoma | Bought him cheap off an older gentleman that was selling all of his horses. He has excellent papers and looks good. He said he would chase one at feeding time but I really didn't think much of it. Bought him with intentions of selling him later, but he's so nice I considered keeping him for myself. But after him taking a chunk of hair off my girls I've changed my mind. lol Dad is currently working on my shock collar so maybe I can bite back now. lol |
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 Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | A few years back I picked up a 12yr old stallion cheap. He'd always been isolated. I initially turned him out with 2 of my geldings and he did well. It wasn't until after we gelded him that he dang near took one of their necks off. I kept him by himself and then eventually turned him out with the mares. They're not highly aggressive but they'll fight back. He rules the roost and we initially had some good bite marks on several occaisons but they eventually worked it out.
One thing that seemed to help him more than anything was ponying. He had to learn how to be close up to another horse. Took a while, but he got it. Tying him on the edge of a warm up pen all day helped him too - of course it was tall livestock panels & he's small so he could lunge all he wanted. I still don't trust him if the mares are out and a gelding comes within touching distance -- he's protective of his mares.
Horses like that you do have to kind of maintain specially. It's frustrating too because some of them can be good horses --this little horse I was talking about is the best I've ever had and right in my back pocket. He's bonded with me unlike any horse I've ever had. But if you're limited on your set up, it's better to move on and be safe.
If you do keep one around, block off your corners, invest in some electric tap to top your fences with and make sure they have plenty of room to get away from each other. Spread out your hay so that they have room and won't fight. Watch the order you bring in and out -- watch and see what works best. Just because they come to the fence first doesn't mean they should go in first. Sometimes that in itself will result in a big fight. So you have to figure that out. |
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| It's a little drastic but it works-put a heavy chain on the horse's front leg. I had a very aggressive one that chased my good horse to the point of exhaustion. I put a chain about five foot long and that solved my problem. i got rid of the jerk asap as I didn't like having to put the chain on it. |
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | I had a very aggressive gelding. He was an orphan foal just had NO idea how to sociales with other horses.....too him to a friends house and he spent a month with the broodmares and then with the studs (they keep up to 3 studs in the same pasture at the same time...he came back a gentleman both to horses and humans. .....a family now has him to help there colts learn some maners |
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Location: Kansas | I had an aggressive colt once........my mare beat the ever living tar out of him and put him in his place. Maybe that is why I love her so much LOL
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Location: Kaufman, Texas |
My husbands horse tried to kill my new horse when we first turned him out into some panels! Luckily I was home to put him up! He rammed the panels so hard the T posts were bending. That bully now only goes out at night by himself! The other horse is in his stall with a run, really watched closely at first, but doesn't bother him now. Still keep him up all day and when everyone else comes in he's out. It was like he was showing off for the others. Hope you get it worked out |
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