At what age can a colt successfully breed my mares?

Question

My colt will be 2 months old on the 27th. I turned my broodmare and colt out with my other mares on Thursday last week. He was mounting one of the older (16 yr old) mares (and she was loving every bit of the sexual interaction) on that day but was un-able to insert his p***s in to her vigina due to his heigth. Today I came home from work and noticed he was hanging out with my yearling (14 months) filly. He mouted her about 20 time that I witnessed today. The thing is he can mout her and he was inserting his p***s in to her vigina, She thought the sexual interaction was pretty amazing and she wanted more (flashing her tail to the side and sticking it in his face). So at this age should I worrie about her being bred? Do I let them keep doing their thing? They both seem to like it. I think it would be cool to have another foal, but is my filly to young? What do I do...?

Answer 1

Are you planning on doing anything with the foal? It sounds to me that you don't ride your horses and that they just graze. I agree with the first poster.

Answer 2

You need to put him and his mom away from the other horses. The are studs and are going to try their thing out. The best thing to do is geld him before a accident occurs. You can geld him as soon as he has both testicles down. just remember he can still breed up to 90 days after being gelded. Good luck

Answer 3

I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.  I have bred, foaled and raised many.  I was a TB breeding manager for over 8 years.  Of all of the colts I raised every year, the earliest I had one become studdish that I needed to seperate the girls from the boys earlier was 7 months of age.  I usually let the kids run together after weaning until they were about 8-10 months of age before I seperated sexes.  Are you mistaken his jumping your filly as in play?  He is not breeding at two months of age, sorry.  Thats bull!

Answer 4

Get your stallion gelded.

I doubt he is breeding ability, especially after reading what you just wrote.

Go to FuglyHorseOfTheDay to see why idiots like you shouldn't breed.

The horse market is horrible right now. Well bred foals are being sold for a mere $1,500. They are halter broke, have extensive lineage, and have good conformation.

There are thousands of horses ending up in slaughter due to Back Yard Breeders like you.

Edit: I'm sure you know what you doing, seeing as you are trying to breed a 14 month old filly, and watched on as the stallion could have gotten her pregnant.

Get your stupid ideas out of here. I don't care how good your mares lines are, that doesn't mean she is breeding quality. What about your stallion? He shouldn't even be one!

Get over yourself, look up slaughter houses, and see horses that just 'HAD' to be bred, regardless of conformation or ability.

Why do you want to breed? Are you going to keep and train the foal for life?

Horses in the wild also don't get their feet trimmed or shoed, they don't get fed grain or hay, and they don't live to be 30. Just because they breed early doesn't mean your horses should.

Talk to your Vet to set a date for him to be gelded.

And it doesn't matter if you mare has the best bloodlines. Many horses lined up at Slaughter do. Bloodlines aren't gurantee for good conformation, and anybody can breed their grade mare to a nice stallion.

I learned my 'stuff' from an Olympic Level Rider who breeds high quality Rhineland Pfalz-Saar's that go to Grand Prix Level of Dressage and Jumping.

And yes, you do sound stupid to me.

Age obviously means nothing, seeing that I know more than you.

I have had quality training, unlike you.

Answer 5

If he's tryin' he is probably fertile.

If you're going to get the mares bred why bother with him if he's a grade?

Allowing him to mount & breed a 14 mo filly is NUTS on your part- she's still a growing baby herself!!

Answer 6

I don't think your little guy would be fertile yet, has his "knackers"dropped yet? I think if they were able to breed at this age then people would have to wean their colts alot earlier. i don't know maybe contact a vet and ask . it does sound like he may become "studdy" i would recomend having him gelded(unless you plan on breeding him in the future) or maybe move your young filly out of there, although i really don't think he would be able to impregnate her, he could really injure himself,you don't want to risk that. i would ask a vet to be sure, but i really don't think he is sexually mature enough to actually breed.

Answer 7

Er.... Galloping Greys, horse slaughter is banned in the US.

And people who KNOW what they are doing, and know they have buyers for their foals should be able to breed. Its the people who don't know what the heck they're doing, or the big barns with lots of foals that don't meet breed standards, but, and i repeat, horse slaughter is banned in the US. *sigh* the poor horses.

She wasn't trying to breed them.

I would ask a vet, and seperate them, just in case. If you're going to geld him, perhaps now is the time.

And if you read that blog.... Well, your expertise and advice is slightly corrupted, god, i couldn't stand it, all the bias.