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Discussion on Sudden personality change ?
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Missa
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Posted on Sunday, May 16, 2004 - 3:30 pm:
My young stud colt/stallion bred his first foal this year. My horses live in a small herd environment but are handled daily and stabled when necessary. Since the birth of his first foal his personalitly has suddenly changed so much he is not the same horse.
He is normally the kindest sweetest horse you could meet, respects his mares and all other horses and easy to handle.
He has become fixated on the mare and has been running her into the ground trying to mate with her even when she doesn't want to. He has done this all day long on one occasion.
As his behaviour has been that bad towards the mare I have not been able to turn him out with the mare as it has upset her and her foal and the risk of injury is too high.
He has gone unhandleable and can't take his mind of getting to the mare and there has been no sign of him returning back to his usual self.
Could you suggest why he would change personality so suddenly? Its surely not normal for a horse to want to breed every minute of the day all day long? And its not as though he is interested in the other mares, its just the mare with his foal.He's not interested in the foal either.
Any advice appreciated.Thanks
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DrO
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Posted on Monday, May 17, 2004 - 7:46 am:
Hello Missa,
You can waste all kinds of time trying to decide "why?" but what you really need to know is what do you do about it. I would remove this mare and foal from harms way and out of sight and hearing range of the stallion until you can get a handle back on him. At that time you may want to gradually reintroduce the mare making sure you keep the stallion under control at each step of reintroduction.
DrO
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Missa
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Posted on Monday, May 17, 2004 - 8:38 am:
Thanks for your advise,
That is more or less what I am doing at the moment. The mare and foal are turned at different times of the day and I am keeping him completely away from them. I'm still worried about reintroducing them incase it all starts again, but I suppose taking things slowly and safely is the best step.
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