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Post by lorrainem on Feb 21, 2016 18:10:34 GMT 1
Needing some advise please, we have a couple of 9 month old colts, a New forest and cob x NF the NF we know was taken away from mum off the forest at 3 months old and not treated terribly well, not abused but definitely not treated correctly he is therefore really nervous and quite difficult at times but we are taking it slowly and seeing some improvement.
We had noticed in the past he looks to suckle sometimes from his field mate but today he was actually suckling the sheath of the other colt, he was really going for it making a lot of suckling noise, the other colt just stood and seemed to find the whole thing quite 'pleasing' lol even spreading his hind legs to make it easier!
Will they grow out of it? i have never come across this behaviour to this extreme before
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Post by Hannah on Feb 21, 2016 18:51:54 GMT 1
Are they out with any other horses, an older one would probably nip this behaviour in the bud. Is there any reason they haven't been gelded?
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Post by VeronicaF on Feb 21, 2016 19:03:16 GMT 1
ahh bless him, I agree with the above,he will be told off by other horses, but I surpose its the same as cats,I have a cat that I rescued when it was only 3weeks old, to young to be without a mum,and even now at 4 yrs he suckles on a blanket when he is going to sleep. because he was too young to leave his mum and he finds it a comfort now
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Post by lorrainem on Feb 21, 2016 19:03:57 GMT 1
No unfortunatley they are on their own, no adult supervision and not allowed to have any others in their field, there was a delay in gelding as one only had one ball the other has taken months to get a head collar on, they were meant to be castrated last Thursday but the nervous NF took off when the vet tried to sedate him so we had to postpone, they are now being done next Friday providing the deation works well enough for the vet to get close enough. I didnt mention they have been together for 4 months now.
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Post by jen1 on Feb 22, 2016 13:56:29 GMT 1
hi answered you on face book, calves do it , nothing wrong with it its what he needs to do just now and he will loose the will when his confidence rises , can you give them a ball to play with ? that can increase confidence with babies without human intervention , to begin with , good luck
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Post by lorrainem on Feb 22, 2016 18:42:38 GMT 1
Thank you, they had a treat ball which unfortunately my boy kept to himself and wouldnt share with this shy little one, we tried two but again the other colt was too dominant to let him play (roll on castration day lol) we also got the big balls but the field we are in is very windy and it just kept blowing over the fencing !
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Post by jen1 on Feb 23, 2016 19:45:28 GMT 1
fill your balls! lol, with water or sand , enough so they can still move them, ive just skipped loads of treat balls, you need more balls that ponies, 4 for 2 is about a good amount
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