capall beag
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I have a 2 yr old colt that has lived with a gelding for at least the last year.
They have been seperated and the gelding has gone to live up the road. The gelding was not doing well being housed with the colt.
It has been 5 days now that he ahs been alone.
Tonight I went out to grain them and he just sniffed his grain and walked away. He looked sad! I checked his hooves and inside his mouth. No cuts, nothing I could see wrong. I then let him out to run in the pasture and he just walked quietly over to the other horses.
Then I let one of my mares out with him, she put him in his place and then they started to run around together. After about 10 minutes he looked like a different horse and started to look happy and content and was eating grass and acting normal. This sounds a bit wacky BUT this is exactly what happened???
Do horses get depressed??
The other thing is he does not seem to know he is a stallion??, the mare is bred BUT he didn't act at all studdy around her he just seemed thrilled to be able to run with her? Is this normal? He has never been bred? But I thought he would act studdish none the less?
I have seen a 4 month old colt act more studdish than this guy?
If it is not depression what else could it be?
He ate normally this morning and ate all his hay and has been drinking?????
I have no idea what else it could be????
They have been seperated and the gelding has gone to live up the road. The gelding was not doing well being housed with the colt.
It has been 5 days now that he ahs been alone.
Tonight I went out to grain them and he just sniffed his grain and walked away. He looked sad! I checked his hooves and inside his mouth. No cuts, nothing I could see wrong. I then let him out to run in the pasture and he just walked quietly over to the other horses.
Then I let one of my mares out with him, she put him in his place and then they started to run around together. After about 10 minutes he looked like a different horse and started to look happy and content and was eating grass and acting normal. This sounds a bit wacky BUT this is exactly what happened???
Do horses get depressed??
The other thing is he does not seem to know he is a stallion??, the mare is bred BUT he didn't act at all studdy around her he just seemed thrilled to be able to run with her? Is this normal? He has never been bred? But I thought he would act studdish none the less?
I have seen a 4 month old colt act more studdish than this guy?
If it is not depression what else could it be?
He ate normally this morning and ate all his hay and has been drinking?????
I have no idea what else it could be????