Red Beauty's 13 yearling
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BaroqueAgain1
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I have a friend who's got a yearling colt in with a batch of yearling fillies and a few older, pregnant mares. He WILL learn manners with all those girls teaching him to not be a brat. Maybe that's a reason why Aggressive Driver is in with fillies...to teach him to not be, y'know, aggressive?
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TBird
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A yearling colt can get yearling fillies pregnant.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:I have a friend who's got a yearling colt in with a batch of yearling fillies and a few older, pregnant mares. He WILL learn manners with all those girls teaching him to not be a brat. Maybe that's a reason why Aggressive Driver is in with fillies...to teach him to not be, y'know, aggressive?
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BaroqueAgain1
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Long yearlings, yes.
But these youngsters are not even a year old, plus are slow-developing Gypsies. The owner keeps an eye on the little 'herd' and is sure that the boy hasn't an inkling yet. As a matter of fact, she had to put him in with a different group of mares, because she caught him nursing off a mare who is just too motherly. Even though she had weaned her own foal a couple of months earlier, I guess her hormones kicked in when he tried nursing...and she started producing milk again. Born nurse mare.
But these youngsters are not even a year old, plus are slow-developing Gypsies. The owner keeps an eye on the little 'herd' and is sure that the boy hasn't an inkling yet. As a matter of fact, she had to put him in with a different group of mares, because she caught him nursing off a mare who is just too motherly. Even though she had weaned her own foal a couple of months earlier, I guess her hormones kicked in when he tried nursing...and she started producing milk again. Born nurse mare.
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Kelly Kip
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Oh yes they can! Saw a 14 mo colt breeding his filly pasture mate...boss didn't believe me until he saw it for himself!TBird wrote:A yearling colt can get yearling fillies pregnant.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:I have a friend who's got a yearling colt in with a batch of yearling fillies and a few older, pregnant mares. He WILL learn manners with all those girls teaching him to not be a brat. Maybe that's a reason why Aggressive Driver is in with fillies...to teach him to not be, y'know, aggressive?