mares or geldings

[Gabe Ayers]

Given skilled handling and leadership the gender or entirety don’t matter as far as being usable. The old folks always said the stallion is the smartest and strongest horse on the farm, but the mares pound for pound are as good as any. The mares do cycle, but that can be stopped by having them bred… using that smart horse mentioned above.

A stallion should prove himself in harness before reproducing. In some old stories there are stallions that go through performance test prior to being sires. One thing that is for sure is that the more you work any of them the better they are.

A silly thing I see sometimes is people spending money to “register” geldings. I don’t understand spending money for that, certainly not if you are really working the horses as part of your income generation.

All in all a gelding is generally easier to work with because they lack the hormones and every male is certainly not a stallion prospect.

[Livewater Farm]

Hey Mitch I too had a pair of percheron morgan mares in the late 70s Molly and Rose bays about 2900lbs best horses I ever had in the woods would go back and forth to the landing on thier own hitch to anything and as sweet as there ever was I have a pair of percheron mares now that I want to breed but unable to find a chunk style stud so I am seriously thinking of breeding to a friends old type morgan he has been crossing his percheron mares for about 10 years now and has had some handsome horses and no problem selling them if on the light side the fancy driving people want them going to talk to him this weekend
Bill

[mitchmaine]

bill, jenny and star, best horses i ever had!!! sounds like you know what i mean. you know how a mongrel dog just beats ’em all. wonder if the same don’t work with crossbred horses? thanks for sharing that. mitch

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