It's natural for young stallions to be together in the wild
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In the wild, young stallions stay together in a batchelor band and actually I have had up to five young stallions in the same pasture together and bacause this is the natural state in the horse world the stallions seem less stressed and less agressive. Yes the do play hard bu even my geldings do that. Infact I have a pair of hugh percheron geldings who shake the ground when they play. No one ever seems to get hurt and the horse have no signs of stress. We have 22 horse on site including a paint stallion and a freisian stallion and I have much more problems with two alpha mares being on property than I ever have my stallions. Because we have several different fields and different groups I have more chance to observe horse herd politics in a natural state than someone who keeps their horse stabled which is an unnatural state for horses. I have everything from Shetland ponies the huge drafts and believe me, horses are horses,no matter their size. 35 years living with them and watching, them I have learned alot about their way of looking at things.
Posted on Jul 11, 2001, 10:26 AM from IP address 207.254.52.194