[shenanigans]

I find it really depends on the horse itself. A friend had a stud she used for breeding that was fine being turned out with geldings, she later gelded him since she chose to no longer breed him & he is fine, though occasionally with the odd mare on our farm he shows off.
He has never had an issue at shows around mares either.

Another friend rescued a stud, gelded him & cant turn him out with mares or geldings hes just too aggressive...their both the same age (6 yrs) & both were used for breeding. One was handled all the time & by a woman, the other not due to his ill mannered/wild behaviour (he was a mustang that was adopted to someone here in Canada then ended up being rescued)
The other studs from that group were all gelded w/o issue & are all out with herd mates.

So, ya I think it really depends alot on the individual horse.

[Haas Horse Farm]

About the swelling etc... that just depends on the horse. The best thing is leave them in a large enough pasture or pen so they can keep moving... moving and drainage is what helps them heal. I have had some with a bit of swelling and some that you had to really look to notice.

[Akhorse]

I gelded my stud when he was 8. He was a verry mild mannerd gentelman, and the bigest change in him, is that he does not scream as much. Also, one of his pasture mates came in to heat last week, and he could care less. As to swelling, ever horse is different. Ace did an imitation of a louisville slugger, he swelled so much. The other stud that was gelded at the same time, hardly swelled at all.

[cminor]

Originally Posted by Haas Horse Farm

I am not sure about your comment about once a stallion always a stallion. My stallions are well behaved and can be out with mares and ridden with them etc. Many geldings I have owned could not be since if they were turned in the with the mares in a large pasture they would run the mares. Acting studly and stupid without ever having bred a mare in their life. I actually think that is the problem as they have never had the **** kicked out of them by a mare because she did not want to be messed with.

If you want to geld your stallion so he can be a pasture mate to others with no concern for mares getting pregnant then do so. It will not hurt the stallion. I know many stallions that were breeding stallions and are now just fine as geldings running with mares, etc.

Here is one that a friend on here, cminor, now owns...


Doublebarr also has a stallion, now gelding that I used to own and was gelded late in life. They are both fine and happy in a herd.

Hey wait a minute I know that horse from somewhere. Let me just tell you since I have owned Spot, he is just the best behaved horse you can ask for. He currently lives in a field with a gelding and 2 year old filly that would show to our 2 year old colt all the time, but Spot could have cared less. He has been everywhere since I have had him, trail rides, group rides in an indoor arena. He also shares a fence line with my mare that just had a filly 2 months ago and she is in prime time heat right now, not that spot would care.

I also as a teenager worked at a Paso Fino farm, they gelded their old stallion late in his life, I think he was 16 or 18. Except for his looks you would have never known he was a stallion. So I say from my own experience if the gelding is down right there should be no problems.