[drivingpairs] Re: Driving a Gelding and Mare
- From: GoGotlands@xxxxxxx
- To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:08:29 EDT
We also started driving our Gotland mare as a single and a gelding (who
totally loves her) as a single with the idea of eventually driving them as a
pair.
She was awesome from the beginning with a stoic work ethic. He was less than
awesome and a bit on the "punky" side. However he improved with being together
with his favorite mare. Of course, why not...she's willing to pull the entire
pair carriage loaded down with 4 passengers up the hill and around the
pastures all by herself and he just trots along beside looking cute! It's been
an
effort to get him to keep up with her (and slow her down to him) but they love
being together and so that mare gelding pair is lots of fun. She's very solid
and stead and he's a bit of a "tourist" whenever we're out in new territory (he
also has a deadly fear of cows--she has to protect him).
I have to agree with others who've mentioned the agreeableness of their
mares. We not only raise Gotlands, but Swedish Warmbloods as well and frankly
I'll
take mares and stallions over the geldings any day. The geldings are lovely,
but with stallions on the property they always act like they have something to
prove. It can be annoying and disruptive behavior. We've even had to isolate
some of the geldings so that we can handle and train them so that their focus
is more on us than on some competitive vibe floating throught the air from the
stallions which are grazing in their fields enjoying life and not paying any
attention to the geldings at all. But I must say the mares all are straight
forward with great work ethics (we have 13 mares) with good attitudes and only
the occasional "bad hair day". I also have found that mares like to be wooed
and
always respond well to polite requests vesus any kind of "demand". They have
always been very generous. Gotta love those mares--even with babies at their
sides, they're willing to work!
Joyce
Turning Point Farm
811 Carpenter Hill Road
Medford, OR 97501
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