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nikki
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 Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 11:39:18 AM
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Well it's gone a bit nuts here lately. Mares are coming into season.
I have caught some of my mares flirting with each other In particular one mare who is old enough to know better, is flirting rather outrageously with one of my youngsters, also a filly.
Do any of your mares do this?
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BabsR
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 11:57:44 AM
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Well....we had two heavily pregnant mares suddenly, flirting with each other......actually acting out Stallion and Mare roles.....can you picture the scene....lady with huge baby bump...mounting another lady with likewise big tummy!!!
This happened for a couple of days, then back to normal 
We pondered that perhaps they were carrying colt foals...and maybe it was something to do with male hormones??? In the event, unfounded, as both mares later, produced filly foals within a week of each other.
Never witnessed this scene before or since, but at the time it was quite a hilarious spectacle
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gossy
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 11:57:52 AM
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| Yes Nikki, one of my mares inparticular who has taken a fancy to a grey connemarra MARE, they are both flirting with each other, and the gelding's cant get a look in.its very funny. |
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BeckyBoodle
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 12:11:15 PM
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My filly flirts outrageously with a QH/TB cross who is very pretty, and whose owner keeps telling me that her horse doesn't get on that well with others so to be aware. However, the other horse will let Eba steal her hay and always runs up immediately if we go past. The other horse can get quite hormonal so didn't know if it was some kind of pheramones she gives off?
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Vera
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 12:52:50 PM
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| My shetland girls do this throughout the summer. Its always Minnie acting out the role of the stallion. She really acts and sounds like she is entire, including courting, rounding up with snaking head and not only mounting but thrusting!!!! |
    
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nikki
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 1:02:18 PM
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well i must say, i am rather glad i'm not the only one
The filly is a little confused, and i don't think she appreciate's having the older mares butt shoved in her face at every opportunity!
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Minty Arab
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Posted - 17 Apr 2009 : 5:29:13 PM
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hi nikki, its not leeka by any chance is it? cos mintys gone nuts! shes flirting with everything in sight!(other species and inanimate objects!) including sunne, rosie the sheep! and even my hubby and the farrier!! strange mare she just seems to be in season constantly at the moment she too is a shameless hussy
Babsr.....the vision your post induces is indeed hilarious,the mind boggles!
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Mad arab rider
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Posted - 18 Apr 2009 : 1:08:56 PM
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You've all made me laugh. I've had mares in the past which have done this. My cob mare is an angel though, and never shows herself up like that. Indeed she's stabled with not 1 but 2 stallions and even they never seem to know when shes in season. Only time she has ever shown is when we've moved yards and she's been put with strange horses.
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LAK
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England
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Posted - 18 Apr 2009 : 1:14:00 PM
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Interesting topic as my mare seems to attract all the others when they are in season.
Through the winter she was best friends with a little shetland (her shadow!), and VERY rarely grazed with any of the others. However, now that spring has sprung she can be found with whichever mare is in season at the time (regardless of whether she herself is in season or not), and they will be screaming for her when she is turned out first thing in the morning. What makes this even more odd is that at our previous yard she was really picked on by the other mares and a complete loner.
I wonder if she has slightly abnormal hormaones and they think she is a boy? Any ideas? |
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nikki
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Posted - 20 Apr 2009 : 10:13:23 AM
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hey emma,
nice to see you back, been too busy riding the fab sunne eh
yes it is leeka i think i'd run for the hills if she started coming on to me
it's all calmed down now. |
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Minty Arab
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England
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Posted - 20 Apr 2009 : 12:29:18 PM
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hi nikki, it must be in genes thenboth shameless hussys! sunne is most disgusted with mintys behaviour she turns her back to her and looks in the other direction as if to say "shes nothing to do with me,i dont even know her!"
yes i have been very busy with sunne shes an absolute angel and we have built up a really good bond quite quickly hopefully we will start competing in the next month or so,only unaffiated to start with,i will let you know how i get on
glad its all calmed down with your lot though,hows the weaning going?
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