gelding the adult stallion

[Ceylon_Star]

I’ve had a somewhat different experience with my late gelded boy.

He was almost 9 when he was finally gelded, and until that point (since he was a weanling) he lived with several other intact boys. He was the bottom of the totem pole from the moment he was put in with the other boys, right until he was sold and left the barn.

He was snipped about 3 months before he was sold, and immediately moved in with a mare at his new home. He had no interest in her despite her throwing herself at him, haha!

I bought him approximately 6 months after his gelding, and he still has no interest in mares and can safely be turned oit with them, but put him in with another gelding (or a stud) and he will mount them. He has actually managed to “breed” a gypsy stud at a previous barn i had him at…

He is still the clean freak he was when I knew him as a stallion, and he still is one to flehm frequently and puff out his chest to show off his studliness, but only in response to other boys he fancies. Mares can go into heat right in front of him and he doesn’t bat an eye, but god forbid a gelding pees nearby!

-sigh- only I would end up with a gay, late-cut, gelding.

[cloudyandcallie]

[QUOTE=JackieBlue;8265033]
Why did that “cause you to acquire” the mare??[/QUOTE]

Mare was for sale. Price started at 8500 and then went down over 3 yrs. Mare was in love with Cloudy. (She’d fought off her owner’s stud and spent 2 weeks in vet hospital with torn up leg.) Mare jumped Cloudy on first day they were out together. (He is the Bill Clinton of warmbloods.) They had been together for 3 yrs and BO was moving back north. So instead of going out and getting a wonderful old ottb mare as was Callie, I ended up with a trakehner who now is still madly in love with Cloudy after a totally of 7 1/2 years. True story. Double the vet bills, double the farrier bills, double the boarding bills. She is still taking care of him. If Callie were still alive, she’d finally approve as she and I used to laugh at some of his girlfriends, especially the 18.2 4 yr old holsteiner who beat up everyone but Cloudy. So I have a small ATA that everyone thinks is a QH because her sire was Impressionist and she has tiny hooves.
Cloudy never got the message that he’d been gelded in Germany.

There’s a nice looking TB stud for sale next state over, with good bloodlines, but I won’t be buying him and having him gelded. I will try to find another smart old TB mare with good bloodlines. They are the smartest horses ever.