A new boarder with only a 8 month old filly came and the owners of the farm made a round pasture inside a pasture so they could nose and get to know one another. one day they knocked down a gate and got after the filly, so bad that the owners had to put her down. It was the most horrific sight ever. The horses that we think that partook in this were a 8-yr-old arabian female, a retired police horse that I was told absolutely hated her, and possibly a 2-yr-old gelded colt.
2007-03-19 07:45:48 · 5 answers · asked by nadine s 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
No, there are no studs on the farm. I just didn't know if this is something that is not ever heard of or not. It was just very disturbing. I see places where there are many horses together more than 20 and they seem to get along. What do people do so that the horses get along? or is there no such thing? I don't know a lot about horse behavior. Some people say that horses are horses and you never know what they're thinking and that they can turn on a dime. I just think that maybe there's something that can help with maybe training or a technique so that they get along, or am I off base and that there just are some horses that no matter what are not going to get along?
2007-03-19 17:22:40 · update #1
Horses HAVE to have a pecking order and they like to establish them ASAP. They probably were trying to show her whos boss, and didn't know they were getting too rough... or maybe if you had a stud he was trying to mate with her and-- fillies are way to small for mating (obviously) and she most likely collapsed under the weight and got crushed... It's sad! Make sure foals are kept away from bigger horses until they can stand their own! Especially studs, with the young'ems.
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2007-03-19 09:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah C- Equine Help 101 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A horse is a horse.
Two different situations could have taken place.
Either the filly was very dominant over the fence toward the others and they just wanted to get her out of their herd.
Or, they didn't like her from the start and having her stuck in the middle of their pasture just aggravated them more.
Either way, once they got the chance to get after her, they did.
2007-03-19 08:37:24 · answer #2 · answered by Horsetrainer89 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Horses are pretty nasty when it comes to newbies. We bought a horse a few years ago and our mares were mean to him and forced him away from food and shelter. It's better now, but they didn't want another one around for some reason; most likely dominance. In your case, the horses had a physical advantage against the poor baby and felt like eliminating her before she got big enough to defend herself. The mare was not maternal apparently. ):
2007-03-21 19:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Roo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mare and her foal should not be with that gelding, and neither ought to the yearling- he's the guy who needs to be in a paddock by utilising himself. needless to say, that gelding nevertheless has sufficient hormones in his gadget that he's performing like a stud, and he's doing what studs needless to say do- in that he has taken possession of the mare and foal as though they have been his herd. In his concepts, they're his herd- and his kinfolk, and he needless to say perceives this different yearling to be a threat to them- that's why he assaults her and drives her off. the only concern with this occasion is that finally, this gelding is going to grow to be further and extra aggressive and keeping- and the time will come whilst he won't enable all of us else close to his mare and her foal, and he might attack YOU, his proprietor, in case you attempt to return close to her or the toddler. it is not his fault- he's barely doing what nature and his hormones have programmed him to do. All stallions in the wild behave this sort- and your gelding thinks he's a stud, whether that's bodily no longer the case to any extent further. i might placed the yearling decrease back in with the mare and foal ( provided, of direction, that the mare will tolerate the yearling round her new toddler- numerous mares i understand won't, and could attack an older foal or yearling because of the fact they're gave the impression to be a threat to the foal's risk-free practices) and shop the gelding far off from all 3 of them. additionally, this gelding needs a job, which ability he needs to be worked or ridden on a daily basis, so he has some thing else to think of roughly as nicely intercourse and what his mare is doing. At 7, he ought to be in finished artwork or coaching, on a daily basis. The yearling filly ought to be getting on a daily basis coaching and dealing with too- she is sufficiently previous to commence floor artwork, a minimum of, and she or he needs to benefit to steer, tie, and stand for grooming and to have her ft achieved by utilising the farrier. It would not harm to introduce her to a mild-weight saddle, and enable her carry it whilst she's being groomed or walked around, and she or he additionally needs to be presented to and learn how to placed on a bridle. It would not ought to be fancy- an effortless snaffle bit is all she needs at this factor- yet she needs to adventure what that's prefer to have a bridle on her head. she would be able to be much less complicated to artwork with down the line if those issues are achieved now. sturdy success to you, and that i desire this enables.
2016-10-02 09:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by rollman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
horses are very dominate and it depends if the other horse waz a studd.... if the other horse is a studd then he waz trying to dominaate her and or breed her and she wasnt letting him
2007-03-19 07:56:06 · answer #5 · answered by sexy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋