This saucy adolescent behaviour must be corrected immediately, before it becomes a serious threat to safety. The testing colt must be taught what is acceptable behaviour and what is not. It is in your own interest to take charge of the situation. You are not his playmate. You are his partner. You must ultimately earn and demand respect from this mature lbs plus equine.
Most colts are better off as geldings. The act of breeding stallions is not solely a job designated to men. On the contrary, more and more women are handling stallions than ever before. Brains more than brawn are required in the breeding shed.
The brawn part can be adequately managed with restraint training and appropriate apparatus. The job of the stud handler requires common sense and alertness, accompanied with a calm, take-charge attitude in these situations. In fact, the one holding the end of the lead shank in their hand becomes the herd leader or dominant influence.
In most cases, handling the mare can be more challenging. There is no room for fear or second guessing when working with stallions. Even the most mild-mannered stallion can become a Jekyll and Hyde in the breeding shed. A stallion should not, on the other hand, be totally stalled and brought out only for the occasional stud duties.
They are not just breeding machines. They possess the same basic needs as their gelded brethren. A stallion requires companionship and plenty of exercise to keep him both happy and fit.
But if you stop to talk to somebody and just leave him standing there, he'll probably start to drop. That stallion starts daydreaming and has taken his attention off the fact that you are in control. That's not his fault. It's yours. You need to get his attention back, remind him that you are in control, and you do that by quietly doing some heeding to move him around.
Walk, stop, back, walk, just keep asking and changing what you're asking for often enough that he has to put his attention back on you. When you get his attention back, he'll put it away. If you want to talk to someone, put your horse away first and then go talk to them.
There are three times when you stop paying attention to the horse that you are handling whether that horse is a stallion, a mare, or a quiet old gelding: never, never, and never. If you have a stallion that bites, you don't slap it or beat it. Meeting aggression with aggression never works. If you have a horse that bites and you try to slap it for biting, it will eventually learn how to duck your slap and bite you on the way down.
Instead, just tie stabilize his jaw with a drop noseband to interrupt the biting before it gets started. If he's real persistent, even with the noseband on, you can pinch his lip when he tries to put his mouth on you. After a while, biting won't be part of his program anymore. Stallions tend to react to situations the same way as human males which is to attack when they're scared and to pout when they lose.
And that's exactly what they do. If the chain is looped around the nose, for example, Dr. McDonnell says try threading it through the mouth gently, like a bit, with loose tension, to give the horse something to use his tongue to play with rather than nipping. Horses are individuals in what works best, but it is worth trying different halter and lead arrangements. Why he does it: During the teasing phase, the stallion might bite at the mare for a few reasons: It can be frustration with the restraint on the stallion or the mare might not be at liberty to respond that she is ready with the appropriate signals to the stallion.
For a stallion with an extreme problem with biting the mare during teasing, Dr. Then you just have to get them to the mare safely. The scenario: During the time leading up to actually mounting the mare, a stallion might strike out at the mare with a foreleg. This behavior, thought natural, can be dangerous for a couple of reasons. If the handler is in the way, injuries could occur. If the stallion is positioned close to the breeding stocks or some other stationary object, he could hit his leg, or push the handler into it.
How to handle it: If your stallion tends to do this, Dr. McDonnell recommends keeping him away from the head of the mare. Although the face-to-face meeting is typically the first encounter at liberty, she says most stallions can respond for breeding without that interaction. And give the horse plenty of room away from stationary objects, should he try to strike.
The scenario: Some stallions kick out in response to having their penises cleaned prior to either breeding a mare or semen collection. McDonnell says this response most frequently occurs with inexperienced stallions naturally unused to the sensations of the cleaning process. How to handle it: For a novice stallion, Dr. Practical tips: Dr. McDonnell advises handlers to wear a helmet, a safety vest and safety shoes for this work, and particularly for a horse that has a tendency to kick.
Things like breeding lines, conformation, performance record, current progeny and temperament will have likely influenced your decision so far. But let me urge you to consider just one more factor before you make your final choice: the likelihood of getting your mare in foal with this stallion. Here are my tips and questions you should be asking when considering a stallion, they are from a personal perspective of breeding my own foals and my lessons learnt the hard way and from my experience as an equine vet getting mares in foal.
The fertility of the stallion is really important when breeding from your mare but often gets overlooked when the choice of stallion is being made. Information such as conception rates would be really useful to have and some stallions do have fertility data available, care needs to be taken when analyzing the data as there are many factors that influence conception rates including mare factors, type of semen used and number of inseminations.
Getting in contact with other mare owners that have used the stallion will also be helpful, again remember there are many variables but if most of the mares got in foal after one or two inseminations then that will offer some peace of mind. Learn from my mistake: I once chose a very popular eventing stallion to use on my event bred mare. I was unable to get my stud fee back and had to drive my mare seven hours to the stallion to be covered with fresh semen.
Luckily she got in foal first time but the cost of the exercise was significantly more than I had anticipated and had I known the stallion was better with fresh semen I could have either taken her there straight away rather than wasting three cycles with chilled semen or chosen a different stallion.
Age matters when it comes to fertility. Both age of the mare and age of the foal. As stallions get older their fertility will naturally decline. Older stallions are popular as they have had time to prove themselves as stallions and their progeny are of an age that their performance can be measured so as a mare owner you have more confidence that the future offspring will be successful than that of a young stallion. If on the other hand you have an older barren mare or a mare that has had difficulties getting in foal in the past then you would be wiser looking for a younger higher fertile stallion to give your mare the best possible chance of conceiving a foal.
There are three choices of semen used for artificial insemination; fresh, chilled and frozen. Some stallions will only be available by chilled, some only frozen and generally not many are available for fresh. For fresh semen you need to be able to insemination within two hours of collecting the semen, this limits the use to stallions based in the UK within a two hour drive, or that are based somewhere you can take your mare for AI.
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