Hello Amber, I have 19 stallions living together in different groups in huge fields. They don't kill each other as it is communly beleived. On the contrary, after the first meeting when they define the hierarquy, without any serious injury ever, they live happy a real horse life and become well balance and zen. I'm not dump. I care more than anyybody about the well fare of stallions.
I think it's fantastic the way you give stallions the chance to live a normal life - AND that you are showing others that it can be done, very successfully! I would love to know your protocol for introducing new horses. Do you let them meet and work out the relationship over a fence and THEN put them in together? And if you already have a herd of 5 (for example) how do you introduce 1 new stallion to that herd?
Thank you for your interest. Among horses, stallions are the ones that typically suffer more from bad living conditions. And I wish some day people start to understand that they can be allowed to have a "horse's life", under certain conditions, and become very social and peaceful horses. I'm sorry but answering your questions in a comment is impossible. I wrote some articles that are available in spanish and portuguese in my web page. And I'm in the process of translating them into english. There is another one available in english in a book that has just been published last week : " A Horse is a Horse, Of Course". Briefly, I do not like to let stallions meet through a fence, because they can easily get hurt or brake something. From my observations, a big herd is composed of small bands from 2 to 3 stallions including one protector. I would first introduce the new horse individually with the protector of each band. But even though I have 10 years experience joining stallions, I consider that I know little and each new horse shows me something new about their behaviour.
Lol, stop act like horses are made out of glass, this is what horses do. And they don’t kill each other. It’s great seeing stallions for once not locked into a stall all alone.
It's actually more dangerous and more harmful to the stallion if you lock it up alone in a stall. Giving a stallion plenty of space and a chance to interact with others is a healthy and natural way for your horses to release their pent-up energy - after all, it's what wild horses do, and they usually live much longer than domesticated ones. If you do lock it up, it might get frustrated, making it more likely to "jump the fence".
There's no danger girl. There are bachelor bands, some reaching 10-17 or more in number, in the wild. It is the paranoia that horses, particularly stallions, are "killing machines" that ruins many an animal through isolation. They're herd animals.
Hello Amber, I have 19 stallions living together in different groups in huge fields. They don't kill each other as it is communly beleived. On the contrary, after the first meeting when they define the hierarquy, without any serious injury ever, they live happy a real horse life and become well balance and zen. I'm not dump. I care more than anyybody about the well fare of stallions.
I think it's fantastic the way you give stallions the chance to live a normal life - AND that you are showing others that it can be done, very successfully! I would love to know your protocol for introducing new horses. Do you let them meet and work out the relationship over a fence and THEN put them in together? And if you already have a herd of 5 (for example) how do you introduce 1 new stallion to that herd?
Thank you for your interest. Among horses, stallions are the ones that typically suffer more from bad living conditions. And I wish some day people start to understand that they can be allowed to have a "horse's life", under certain conditions, and become very social and peaceful horses. I'm sorry but answering your questions in a comment is impossible. I wrote some articles that are available in spanish and portuguese in my web page. And I'm in the process of translating them into english. There is another one available in english in a book that has just been published last week : " A Horse is a Horse, Of Course". Briefly, I do not like to let stallions meet through a fence, because they can easily get hurt or brake something. From my observations, a big herd is composed of small bands from 2 to 3 stallions including one protector. I would first introduce the new horse individually with the protector of each band. But even though I have 10 years experience joining stallions, I consider that I know little and each new horse shows me something new about their behaviour.
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WHY DO YOU HAVE TWO STALLIONS TOGETHER???? Who's dump enough to do that? I understand if they jumped the fence to fight, but really???
People don't get how dangerous this is
Lol, stop act like horses are made out of glass, this is what horses do. And they don’t kill each other. It’s great seeing stallions for once not locked into a stall all alone.
It's actually more dangerous and more harmful to the stallion if you lock it up alone in a stall. Giving a stallion plenty of space and a chance to interact with others is a healthy and natural way for your horses to release their pent-up energy - after all, it's what wild horses do, and they usually live much longer than domesticated ones. If you do lock it up, it might get frustrated, making it more likely to "jump the fence".
There's no danger girl. There are bachelor bands, some reaching 10-17 or more in number, in the wild. It is the paranoia that horses, particularly stallions, are "killing machines" that ruins many an animal through isolation. They're herd animals.