I hate it when a horse is by themselves.....so we avoid that situation if at all possible.
We pasture breed. So our senior herd stallions always have at least one mare with them, and if it works out, they have more.......
Our young stallions and colts are split up into three small groups right now. There is an aggressive stallion group, a more docile stallion group, and a colt group.........and so far so good.........The important thing that we did was to "test the waters" with each personality. You need to be right there and watching to decide what is best for your horse. This is IMPORTANT.
We have NEVER put our breeding senior stallions together, INTENTIONALLY. That just does not work, no matter what time of year it is...........And we had a horrible accident occur to prove it. I will probably NEVER get over this.........
Last winter we pulled our top senior stallion to the barn/paddock area for each night to give him time to chow down. He was 28.5 inches, 21 years old, and had dropped some weight. And every morning he was turned back out with his few girls...... A family came to visit and went through the paddock during the day, but what we didn't see was that a connecting gate was not fastened properly. (Now I feel it was our fault for not checking the latch, but at the time we made some wrong assumptions with the family because we knew them to be horse owners.) On the OTHER side of the gate was another stallion.......a younger herd stallion and just big enough (31 inches and medium boned) to kick some butt....... plus he had his group of mares.......
At some point during the night the gate was opened and the two stallion met. The end result I really don't want to relive. The younger stallion had a few bites, cuts, and abrasions...........Our senior stallion did not make it. We literally pulled him into our kitchen to doctor on him before the vet arrived........but he was gone the next day.........
That is our experience...........WE will never put two senior herd stallions together.......even in winter. Losing our boy that way was losing a member of the family........Won't even go there again..........
We pasture breed. So our senior herd stallions always have at least one mare with them, and if it works out, they have more.......
Our young stallions and colts are split up into three small groups right now. There is an aggressive stallion group, a more docile stallion group, and a colt group.........and so far so good.........The important thing that we did was to "test the waters" with each personality. You need to be right there and watching to decide what is best for your horse. This is IMPORTANT.
We have NEVER put our breeding senior stallions together, INTENTIONALLY. That just does not work, no matter what time of year it is...........And we had a horrible accident occur to prove it. I will probably NEVER get over this.........
Last winter we pulled our top senior stallion to the barn/paddock area for each night to give him time to chow down. He was 28.5 inches, 21 years old, and had dropped some weight. And every morning he was turned back out with his few girls...... A family came to visit and went through the paddock during the day, but what we didn't see was that a connecting gate was not fastened properly. (Now I feel it was our fault for not checking the latch, but at the time we made some wrong assumptions with the family because we knew them to be horse owners.) On the OTHER side of the gate was another stallion.......a younger herd stallion and just big enough (31 inches and medium boned) to kick some butt....... plus he had his group of mares.......
At some point during the night the gate was opened and the two stallion met. The end result I really don't want to relive. The younger stallion had a few bites, cuts, and abrasions...........Our senior stallion did not make it. We literally pulled him into our kitchen to doctor on him before the vet arrived........but he was gone the next day.........
That is our experience...........WE will never put two senior herd stallions together.......even in winter. Losing our boy that way was losing a member of the family........Won't even go there again..........