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You are wild and free.
You always have been. Your a decedent from thoroughbreds an Arabians from years ago, There are several still pure Arabians, several still pure thoroughbreds, but most of you, have been born an Anglo arabian, wether your mostly arabian, mostly thoroughbred, or 50/50 each. You've been wild for a long period of time now and have had no decisions to go to the life of humans. But, every spring and early summer, men are out searching for wild horses to breed their stallions to, or sell. Most people want mares, they might often release one of their pure bred stallions with prize winning foals just to increase the amount of blood lines in the wild of their one stallion.
Most stallions you may come across, perhaps were once owned by man.
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A band of horses, which is also known as a herd, consists of 3-30 mares, (rarely that many) their foals and a single dominant stallion. There may be a few stray stallions who tag along with the herd but will be snaked from the herd if caught mating with the dominant stallions mares.
A Band stallion is the 'dominant' stallion of the herd, so to speak. He does not lead the herd, nor is he the leader of the mares. He's not boss. His job is to keep the herd safe from predators and humans, and will chase his herd away from any danger. When with humans, sometimes the stallion will cut away from his herd and lead the human someplace else and after while when he knows he's lost the man he will return to his herd and will keep pushing them. With predators such as, Wolves, Bears, Cougars, etc he will chase his herd to saftey. Stallions may chase off a mountain lion if it is young or ill, but if not he might kick at it once to distract it while his herd takes off and then he will follow. A Band stallion will often depart from his herd in search of good meadows and water and then he'll return and snake his herd toward the area, his lead mare up front. Stallions rarely accept mares colts that are sired by other males, if they are a year or up, they usually get chased out quite violently, if they are younger, they are killed [prepare yourself for that] fillies, usually won't ever leave his herd unless snaked by another male as the stallion can use her if she's not his daughter. Stallions also don't mushy talk over foals, they don't see foals like mares do, stallions are not sweet things that love foals, they are brutal animals that fight to keep their herd and to stay alive. they rarely have time for foals, and only once their colts are old enough, will they start to show them how to spar and fight.
A lead mare's Role is to lead the herd, She is the dominant or alpha mare of the herd. She is usually the oldest and wisest. A lead Mare will lead her herd to safety, and when her stallion has found a good meadow or river or whatever, she will lead the herd up front to the area. The lead mare gets the best drinking spot, and the best grazing spots. Her foal however is not always the most dominant of the lot. The lead mare is not the stallions favorite mare, in fact Stallions don't have lead mares. Lead mares are sorted out through challenges, mares don't get violent, mares will nip, squeal and now and then kick the air, but won't actually draw any blood from other mares. After about 10 minutes, the older mare will win, the younger mare will back away accept her spot. If a horse in the herd (mare, filly, colt) is being disrespectful, or simply being annoying, the lead mare will snake him or her out of the herd and she or he will not be allowed back into the herd until the lead mare allows them. If she snakes them out the band stallion can't and will not do anything about it. The lead mare also has every right to snake her band stallion out of the herd, if he is young or simply cocky and disrespectful, the lead mare will chase him out and won't allow him back until she decides. If she doesn't want him back, she will start calling out to bachelors alarming them there is a herd needing a stallion here. And the band stallion can't do much about it. He will simply have to try and fend away stallions until his Lead lets him back in.
Snaking is when a horse lowers his/her neck and nips at another horses hips, flank and hocks and drives them somewhere, whether towards a herd, or out of a herd. When a stallion snakes, A mare might kick a few times but unless the stallion is 5 years or younger, the mare will eventually give up and will simply go where the stallion wants. With mares snaking out other horses, the more the horse fights, the longer the lead mare will keep the horse out of the herd.
A Bachelor stallion is a young male (or old) whom does not have a herd, often he will join up with what is called a Bachelor Band, which is a band of stallions with an old male whom is between 13 and 20 years who leads the herd the rest of the males simply follow him like his mares. In spring, the older bachelors of the herd will depart and look for mares, if he finds no mares over spring and summer he will return to the bachelor band and stay for autumn and winter. Some lone bachelors, (2- 6 years) will tag along with a herd of mares and their stallion.
Stages of heat in mares
0- not in heat
1- in heat but weak, won't accept, will still likely join herd
2- won't accept but will most likely join herd
3- might accept, will join herd
4- deep in heat, will always accept (even if it's not the band stallion) won't fight nor care, often desperate
Horses are Flight animals, they will not go looking for trouble, they will run away from ANY danger they can sence. Horses are also Claustrophobic and won't go into caves. If its a meter long cave like mostly a small shelter that only one horse can fit in, or mostly stand under like a Rock roof, a mare will often foal under those.
Twins in foals are very very rare. If a Mare has triplets, both mare and all three foals will DEFIANTLY die... Twins are very rare, if a mare has twins, either she or both foals will die. On the rare rare occasion will both mare and foals live. Most of the time one of the twins will die or both. If the mare dies when she has twins, the foals will eventually return to the herd and soon die because none of the mares will accept them because they will have their own foals and if they don't have a foal they they don't have milk. On the off chance will a mare who's foal has died will she accept a foal of another mare. If it is twins she will likely accept her more favored foal and then let the other die for twins in winter won't survive. Foals don't always survive birth, yes sometimes you might need to make your mare birth to a still born, have your foal die in winter or something. Life is cruel.
Lone mares will survive late spring and summer alone, come winter they will start searching for herds because they will not survive on their own. Mares do not get annoyed when a stallion snakes them. And don't ever get away from stallions unless he is younger than 5. If she is snaked she won't care, she might be annoyed for an hour or so and then she simply won't care.
Older mares that can no longer produce foal's will sometimes try to steal foals from other mares. If this happens, a stallion can't and will not do anything about it. The mother can try to take her foal back, but if she fails the foal will die.
When a stallion who had a herd of any amount of mares, if he loses to anotherstallion then all the mares that belong to the stallion will be given to the stallion who won the fight.
Stallions fight all year round, they are more dormant during winter, only fighting each other over grazing grounds or water streams. During Spring and summer, Stallions fight constantly, but again, they don't get that violent, people say stallions rip shreads from one another, that is wrong, Stallions bite, scream, kick, rear, but they rarely cause major injuries. Stallions may leave fights with maybe one bad wound, but it won't be bad and the worst a fight will do too stallions, will make the loser lose his mares, They, will also be tired after the fight. When Stallions fight, the loser will back off, all of the losers mares, will then be taken by the winning stallion. The winning stallion will then need to be more cautious with his mares if he then has a large herd.
Bachelor Stallions spar constantly, when in a herd if they do not sucsessfully gain mares that spring, during autumn, and the next spring, they will fight and argue. Come spring, some bachelors will remain together, usually young stallions may gang up on older stallions herds and try and take their mares, but will rarely succeed in gaining a mare. Put chocolate in your form if you read this entire thing
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