Ponies

Re: Ponies

Diane Westwood — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:17:34 GMT

The reason I asked is that this colt is 7 months old and has apparently been mounting his mum. He's one of a herd of 'grazing for habitat management' ponies at our local nature reserve.

Re: Ponies

Diane Westwood — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:14:52 GMT

Thanks, all very useful comments.

Re: Ponies

littlehays — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:36:12 GMT

you can geld at 6 months, and if you're not intending on breeding then i would do this. by 18 months you are definitely going to have some stallion-like characteristics remain in the pony even after gelding.

Re: Ponies

Nicola Smith — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:02:41 GMT

We used to castrate at about 1 year or sometimes 9 months even. The older they get th more ingrained male behaviour you have. I wouldnt leave past 18 months really. I broke in a pony who hadnt been gelded till he was 6 and he was horrid - very stallion like!! Even by 3 a lot of them are quite a handful.

Re: Ponies

Kathryn Welsh — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:30:58 GMT

Would geld him as soon as both testicles dropped. Is able to cover things and fertile from then... probably about a year.