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10-12-2007, 02:20 PM
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Re: Pictures of my new baby horse
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Why are so many Horses castrated? Is it like with Dogs and Cats? [/ QUOTE ] Hmm, it's more of a safety issue. Castration is a very simple surgery, cheap and non harmful to the animal. Non castrated horses, stallions, have a possibility of being so hormonal they can hurt themselves or others. They do stupid things trying to get to a mare that can hurt them or hurt their handlers. I have personally seen people I know get severally injured as the result of dealing with stallions. Imagine the brain set of a 16 year old boy, sexually. Then imagine he weighs 1500 lbs, is very strong, and has no concept of self control. Geldings on the other hand, are on the whole fairly easy to deal with. They don't fight as much, and most have been castrated at such a young age that they never hit any kind of sexual puberty. They don't react to mares in heat. It makes them much easier (and thus cheaper) to handle, so more people have the possibility of owning them. 
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10-12-2007, 02:48 PM
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Re: Pictures of my new baby horse
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[ QUOTE ] Why are so many Horses castrated? Is it like with Dogs and Cats? [/ QUOTE ] Hmm, it's more of a safety issue. Castration is a very simple surgery, cheap and non harmful to the animal. Non castrated horses, stallions, have a possibility of being so hormonal they can hurt themselves or others. They do stupid things trying to get to a mare that can hurt them or hurt their handlers. I have personally seen people I know get severally injured as the result of dealing with stallions. Imagine the brain set of a 16 year old boy, sexually. Then imagine he weighs 1500 lbs, is very strong, and has no concept of self control. Geldings on the other hand, are on the whole fairly easy to deal with. They don't fight as much, and most have been castrated at such a young age that they never hit any kind of sexual puberty. They don't react to mares in heat. It makes them much easier (and thus cheaper) to handle, so more people have the possibility of owning them. [/ QUOTE ] yeah also you can have geldings together(or with mares), stallions don't get along with other stallions horses are awesome
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10-14-2007, 10:02 PM
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Re: Pictures of my new baby horse
who is the cute girl in photo 4
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10-17-2007, 12:12 AM
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Re: Pictures of my new baby horse
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Cool horse. How does horse ownership work. Do you live on a farm or visit it a few times a week? Is this gonna be a race horse? [/ QUOTE ] My other horses, I pay board every month, they live at a barn, I go out to see them as often as I can. This one will be in that type of situation eventually, right now she is too young to leave her mom, and lives at a barn in canada. Not a race horse, no, but I am hoping she'll be competitive as a hunter (jumps over fences looking cute) someday. She's bred for it.
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