HEY, I JUST BOUGHT A YEARLING APENDIX BRED STUD COLT. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVR HAD A STALLION SO I NEED HELP! HE HAS "MOOD SWINGS." LIKE ONE MINUTE, HE IS THE SWEETEST ANGEL IN THE WORLD, HE WILL TALK TO ME AND LET ME PET HIM, BUT ONE NIGHT I WENT TO HIS PADDDOCK AND TRIED TO CATCH HIM, AND HE ACTED RALLY SCARED OF ME AND KICKED AT ME! HE DOESN'T ACT LIKE THIS WITH ANYONE ELSE SO I HINK IT MIGHT BE ME, BUT WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP THIS??? ALSO I WAS LEADING HIM AROUND FOR EXERCISE ONE DAY, AND QUINKY ONE OF MY MARES WHO WAS IN HEAT, WAS IN HER PADDOCK IN CLEAR VIEW, HE DID FINE, I WAS REALLY PROUD OF HIM UNTIL, WE PASSED HER PEN, THEN HE STARTED REARING UP AND LIKE LEANING ON ME AS IF HE COULDN'T SUPPORT HIS OWN WEIGHT. IS HE TOO YOUNG TO BE ACTING LIKE THIS??? PLEASE HELP!!!! e-MAIL OR POST
Kelly (63.172.47.240)
Posted on Saturday, April 06, 2002 - 01:51 am:
This can be a dangerous situation. Please get in touch with a professional that can give you some handling lessons. He will get worse and it would be a shame for you to loose control of your horse and get hurt. I suggest that you geld him and enjoy your horse, or get professional help. As he matures and gets larger and stronger, this could easily get out of hand and hurt you or someone else.
Please understand that he is not doing this to you personally, but nature dictates his feeling at this age. In between the sweet moods, there can be some very unpredictable and scary ones. If you would like to have the sweet moods all of the time, gelding him would do you both a favor. After all, he would rather have a nice life doing things with you than acting up and worrying about breeding all the time!
Stallions are very different from mares and geldings. You can not take anything about them for granted. You can't trust them, and you can't take them for granted. You can't ignore one for a second. You can't pick at them, you need to establish your dominance over them and maintain it. This can be quite a dangerous situation.
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