A silly question- i can't tell who's the dominant one! chrome and tulsa are complete retards & i'm stumped

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yesterday when my mom and i were poo- picking Chrome and Tulsa's pasture, my mom just said outta the blue "Who's the dominant one? Chrome or Tulsa? I can't tell. Is is Chrome? But Tulsa was the dominant one before!" Before we bought Tulsa, she was the big man on campus. When we brought her home, she was alpha also. But once we put Chrome together with Tulsa, Tulsa just follows Chrome around everywhere, neighs whenever she leaves, but pushes her around sometimes. Chrome on the other hand, just about always follows Tulsa around, submits to her, but sometimes seems like she's the boss. I'm thinking that maybe Tulsa is still alpha but doesn't really show it as much, Chrome is now the boss, they have no real boss between them, they switch on and off and take turns, or they have a weird thing where they are like "co- captains" together. It's really weird. Do you guys have any ideas? I know this is kinda funny, but I'm just curious. Teak is out of the picture- different pasture.

Answer 1

My two horses are so in love (one horse didn't have another horse for almost a year when I first had her) that they don't fight too much, and some days it's hard to tell the difference between their dominance. They both boss each other around, but they're not really mean about it, like one will get to the hay first, push the other away, and the 2nd horse will just come back and eat, or something like that. They more play games with each other than fight. :)

Answer 2

You or your one of your parents is the dominant one. The others are herd buddies and share a similar rung on the pecking ladder. This is a good thing.

Answer 3

I've seen the strangest 'dominance' pecking orders...

3 horses...A, B, and C

A beats up and dominates B

B beats up and dominates C

C beats up and dominates A

Why doesn't A also dominate C???  Weird....

For you...who is the 'crabbiest' at feeding time?  Or a shared hay pile?  When all else fails...I look at that.  And even that doesn't help sometimes...

Answer 4

um i know what ur going through i have 47 horses nd idk who is  but usually the older 1s are!!:)

Answer 5

My 'herd' have the strangest pecking orders as well...

One of our horses Riley is on the low, low end of the pecking order. Ziggy is pretty much the 'boss' of everyone except Quantum and for some reason Riley can push him around whenever he wants. If Riley tries to push anyone else around he'd get his butt handed to him, but Zig lets him do it....

It's strange.