While you think their behavior is all cute and cuddly what happens when they turn their aggression on you? Stallions in herds can and have attacked people when they take horses out of 'their' pasture especially mares. You cannot be with them 24/7 to see if they are 'interested' in mares, a colt a year of age can breed a mare and I have seen that one happen. Even stallions pastured with just geldings can and will drive the weaker gelding out of the herd. Stallions will kill foals that are weak and are not their own. They can and will hurt/kill people if you are seen as a threat. All of your mares could be pregnant. They will find a way, I have seen mares in holes to get bred and pony mares bred by full size stallions. A stallion can and will chase a mare into submission or beat the crap out of her to get her that way. A stallion can and will go through several fences to breed A mare or breed her over the fence. If you are in the states do you really think we need more horses that dont have homes? Can you take care of these horses for the rest of their lives? 5 mares, 5 babies a year for 15 years? that is 81 horses until you factor in those babies making more babies too. What happens with those cute fuzzy stallions break down the fences and get into the neighbors horses? They could kill/injure/mame their geldings and mares or get hit on the road....they could hurt someone trying to save their own horses or kill someone in a car.
ok off that soapbox....
now...are these stallions registered? do their bloodlines fit a certain niche? are they conformational sound? are they show horses? do they have a job besides being cute? did their parents have jobs? Do they have a reason to stay a stallion?
I am not against stallions and I am not against breeding, but their are WAY too many horses out there without homes.
Im sorry but their is absolutely NO reason to have a stallion around to just have a stallion around. It is not fair to them and it could be dangerous. Even gelded later in life some still do retain their undesirable behaviors.
ok, I feel better now.
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