Some mares can be so moody!
By blue65packer
@blue65packer (11826)
United States
3 responses
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
9 Sep 09
I've got to say my favorite horse was a mare, but she was fun, and not terribly moody - but I do know what you mean, I've seen some very moody mares, on the other hand, I also knew a couple of geldings that didn't act like they had been gelded... Sundown was smart, and had a sense of humor, she'd open gates and stuff, they had to have a solid gate on her stall or she'd open it. I will say she was a big pony, 13 3 so that might've had something to do with her antics... She had 2 fillies, neither of them had her talent for trouble...
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
10 Sep 09
Thanks for the response! Not all the mares at the stable I work yet are moody! There is a bay pony mare who loves to break down the fence wires to get the side that has the grass! Are fences are electric and it doesn't stop her! We also have a warmblood filly who loves attention! The worse mare is Abyy,a QB,who is always moody! She loves to kick at her stall door until she gets feed! When I had to put on her heavy fly sheet she would try to bite me when I was putting it on! Abby is one reason I am not overall fond of mares! With geldings I have come across some who acted like stallions! Luckily my late gelding major was a sweetheart and I'll never be able to replace him!
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
10 Sep 09
yeah, June was like that, she couldn't be turned out because she didn't like a lot of other horses, and she would kick. She once kicked in the wall between her's and Sunny's stalls and they would walk thru the slats to the other stall... She liked Sunny and another pony, Jimmy Stewart, (as compared to the owner of the stable, Jimmy Burr) but those were about the only neighbors she didn't fight with.
@weasel81 (2496)
• Australia
4 Oct 09
i'm a mare person, i don't seem to get along with geldings. thou my mares have never really shown to be in season , until not long ago when my bros g.f. got a gelding and my mare decided to try and be his best mate. most would run when they see the look my mare gives to get a cuddle, it's rather scary but it's her and she got the type of attitude i like.
@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
5 Oct 09
I know some sweet mares but it seems I have been around more moody mares! Any I known mares who get attached gelgings and vice versa! I currently know a mini donkey who loves all the 5 mares he lives with!
@jazzsue58 (2666)
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10 Sep 09
I stayed on a stud farm for my holiday - there was a mare and her colt, and boy was she a ... mare, I guess. Ears back, teeth out and then kick you in the wotsits through the hole in the fence while you were still trying to get your arm back.
Thing was, she had a young colt (male) that she was trying to make the same way. So I started befriending him. She got real jealous of that!
One day he came up to me for his customary back rub - we were kinda dating by then - and mum shoved her way in between us, ears back, "Leave my son alone," kind of thing.
He gave her a thoughtful look, then gave her a decidedly obvious nip! Startled whinny from mum, who then stood in a corner sulking while we carried on where we'd left off.
Almost human, these animals ... I reckon she had a bit of jewish ma in law in her "Oy veh, I toil in the fields all day - now even my own son has turned against me!"
