[QUOTE=Equilibrium;6403820]
Even slightly insinuating any person is at fault is quite frankly a little hurtful. And even in my situation. You want to make me out as over reactive and that I did something wrong. Tell me that when you have to tackle your foal in the field who is trying to gallop away on a leg that’s broken in half. Or having to lay on that foal til the vet arrives. The mare who attacked gave no indication she would do that to another foal. They lived across from each other in separate fields and spent all their time together at the fenceline.
My stepmother ended up in Shock Trauma via helicopter when her foal some how got through palling in with the gelding. My stepmom through herself on top of the foal and doesn’t remember anything after. Her foal lived. There is a gelding on this property that turns into a raving lunatic any time a mare is closer than a field away. Runs the fenceline and hollers all day. If he’s in with a mare he chases them non stop and will mount anything. He’s not mine. He’s had all the testing done and is not a rig. He is a giant PITA. Some geldings are not wonderful characters and sometimes it’s all fine and dandy til it isn’t. Unfortunately when it’s not fine it can be horrific.
So saying things like, " someone on this board had a mare kill a foal, so what you don’t turn out mares and foals together". Cheers for that. I did turn out mares and foals together again and to be honest I think I spent all day out by the field looking for any little sign with a sick stomach. Of course it all worked out. But if you don’t know what it’s like, and if everything works out fine, you have no idea what someone else has gone through and how they feel. I don’t do mixed herds either. My decision. Doesn’t make me a fool or better. It’s just the way I roll.
Terri[/QUOTE]
Did I insinuate that what happened was your fault? If something that I said sounded that way, then I am very sorry because I don’t think that at all. You may be replying to someone else, but I reread and didn’t see anything about someone blaming you for your tragedy. What I said about mixing herds in general was in conversational (not combative) response to ise’s comments.
At any rate, I think you are totally right. I wish there was a fool proof way to do this and ensure a good outcome. But sometimes you just can’t know until you try it. And as much as I sit at the fenceline and watch, I know that if the gelding decided to kill my baby, there’s nothing that little 'ol me could do to stop a raging 1200lb horse. I guess you are either luckyh and it works out, or you aren’t. I’m very sorry that in one case you weren’t so lucky, equilibrium. Could just as easily be anyone who doesn’t keep babies only with their mamas.
