Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Getting Fixed
I have recently have been given an opportunity to get a horse that is a 14-year-old Quarter horse stallion. I am planning on gelding him immediately if I decide to take him, and hopefully he will mellow out fairly quickly. He is a great horse and has been used extensively for cattle work and some trail riding and not been allowed to be “studdy”. In fact, if he was a gelding he would have been in my pasture yesterday! He has been socialized with other horses in his younger years but has been by himself for the last four or five and has not had a real breeding career. I don’t have any experience handling a stud, and am not looking to start. If he will remain acting like he is a stallion but more mellow, I’m not thinking that is something I would like to take on. I do have a gelding already so he would have a buddy. I want to be able to relax and enjoy my ride, not be on the lookout for fellow mares. Does anyone have an input on gelding an older stallion? How did it work out?
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Gelding will make a difference but at 14 years, even with no breeding experience, it will take a while for him to "calm" down and act like a gelding.I had a Quarter Horse that was a Stallion for 14 years and then had him gelded, he was never what I would call Studdy, but some people just were afraid to ride with me. The rule of thumb, according to ol' cowboy lore, is that it takes roughly 1 month per year that the horse was a stallion for him to become a true gelding. Go with your gut feeling and if you decide to take him, enjoy him. Good Luck
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