Comments on: Mares vs. Geldings

By: charice

charice — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:34:48 +0000

What do you think of riding drafts? I’m kinda obsessed with the Percheron. But any draft will do.

By: Riley

Riley — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 11:44:52 +0000

I would love to own a gelding becaused there well behaved but i have a 2 mares Belle and April and i love them to death so i will stick with mares 🙂

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:37:20 +0000

I currently have two Mustang Mares. One I’ve had for over three years, the other, about three months. Both love me, maybe too much. BabyGirl, the one I’ve had for three plus years is very petite and prissy. Would never pee or poo in her stall and has two places in the paddock/small pasture to go. She loves being brushed and be cleaned up. A real lady.
Pearl on the other hand, will eat anything and, a lot of it. She is always muddy and seems to enjoy it. And she will poo anywhere. She stands in her stall trough eating and pooing at the same time. I never have to muck BabyGirl’s stall, I get two wheelbarrows a day out of Pearls. Lol
BabyGirl is 6 and Pearl is 5. Both have had very different lives. BabyGirl has been pampered and allowed to experience things in a positive way. Pearl was gathered at a little older age and then adopted by a person who either didn’t know what to do or life happened or something and eventually was abandoned in a rented pasture, repo’d by the BLM and adopted by me three months ago. I think/pray, she enjoys her new life. She seems to.
I like the geldings but ya gotta love the affection and, attitude of a mare.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:08:16 +0000

I have owned and raised a number of Arabian horses. I have seen mares who could care less who rode them. But I prefer my geldings(32 and 22)who have never been horses I could hand around. Because I have a balance problem, I appreciate that they are rock solid during mounting and on the trail. They have very different personalities, yet both get on well in any group. Mares that I rode often were more focused on the other horses and wanted to “buddy” up with someone on the trail. Probably my fault. If I live long enough to need another riding horse, I will chose by the horse and not by their sex.

By: KC

KC — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:46:59 +0000

Mares for me! I currently own three mares and a 7 month old filly, and 4 geldings. The mares are all affectionate, work hard to please in the saddle and on the ground, and the filly is a real character but extremely affectionate yet respectful, and also much more focused than any of the geldings were at her age. Two of the geldings are great athletes who are stars in their disciplines, but at home, they are bossy to the mares in the barn and pasture, pushy to fences and gates, and a whole lot more challenging to co-exist happily with. Our best horse ever was a QH mare who we raised from birth. She was a fantastic athlete with tons of cow sense, a steady disposition she continued to exhibit during the 34 years I was privileged to be her owner. She taught many little girls to ride in her last decade.

By: Melani

Melani — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:52:40 +0000

I have a mare, my first horse and probably my last, as we are of similar age (in horse and people years), with about the same working life left. She is a calm, quiet beginner’s horse who never spooks. She gave me a lot of mischievous trouble at first, but after four years of learning, we have finally bonded. Now if only I was a better rider…

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:47:48 +0000

Over the last 50 years I’ve had both, mares and geldings. Looking back over the experiences with them, I must say I prefer the mares over the geldings. One mare that I had, I got as a four year old and kept her well into her twenties when she finally passed away. She was the best of the bunch, but there were at least two other notable mares. The gelding I have now has much the personality of those mares (unpredictable at times-and loves to follow me around the corral-but that could be just looking for a hidden treat). He does nicker, but it’s because he’s telling me that it’s feeding time (whether it is or not). I don’t think I would enjoy him as much if he didn’t have the “split personality”.

By: CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:00:54 +0000

I NOW HAVE MY 4TH MARE AND I LOVE THEM. THEY HAVE ALL BEEN BOSS MARES AND STRONG WILLED. THEY ARE SMART, FUN AND AFFECTIONATE. I LOVE HORSES IN GENERAL, BUT I AM DRAWN TO THOSE MARES! THEY MAKE ME A BETTER RIDER BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION WITH THEM.

By: simon

simon — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:20:06 +0000

Have owned 3 horses thus far, 2 mares and one gelding. The mares I found the hardest to get along with and the gelding and I clicked. Probably not helped that I was in my early twenties with the mares and I don’t think mature enough to handle all our moods!

By: Nadine Gardiner

Nadine Gardiner — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:33:33 +0000

So far I have only owned 4 horses, however out of those 4, 3 of them were mares. I currently still own two of those mares. I have also ridden many mares and geldings that I did NOT own. I have worked extensively with 6 mares, counting both mine and other peoples. Out of those only one did I have a problem with. Luckily she was not one of my horses. On the other hand of the geldings I have ridden I only got along with 2 and most of these geldings I had worked with extensively as well. I have ridden more geldings, but I have gotten a long better with mares. Just from my own personal experience I would probably buy a mare before a gelding, unless that gelding and I had some kind of magical connection. I did have that with the one gelding I did own, but have only seen something close to that in one other. I cannot really comment of stallions because I have only ridden one and it was nowhere near as much as these mares and geldings I am talking about. I have worked with around 5 stallions on the ground, but my stallion experience is still kind of limited. So I cannot really say one way or another with them.