Silent Symphony wrote:Ugh, decisions...
Well, my mom and I bought a dead-broke stallion last summer. He's cryptorchid, but he was amazingly docile for a stallion. We took him home and put him in the pasture with our mares and gelding. At first, everything went wonderfully. He was a great riding horses, and he didn't really bother the horses.
But now, he's been fighting with our gelding and running him from the herd, and he's really stubborn whenever we go to take him out of the pasture. My mom and I went to lunge him, and he got angry! He reared and challenged us whenever we tried to lunge him. So, after that was unsuccessful, we put him back in the pasture. He's being really mean to our gelding, and occasionally to us. My mom and dad are contemplating selling him, since he's barely rideable, with his attitude. The other option is to geld him, but that could cost up to 1,300 dollars since he's cryptorchid. What should we do? :C
The first mistake I read in there was that you put him back in the pasture. Honestly, he won. That's exactly how he sees it, too. He challenged you, and you backed down. You guys have to be firm with him; you can't back down when he challenges you. It's the natural order of things. If he's mean to your gelding, that's because he is the lead stallion, and that gelding is trying to take his mares. If it gets too obnoxiously horrible, you guys could separate them, or geld him. That would probly be your best options?