gelding question

[amberb1991]

How old do they have to be?? We have NO clue. We are keeping Trigger and we want to get him gelded.
Thanks!!
Amber

[maximumangel]

I think its the same age as a cat or dog - from young as 6 months and over.


Christine

[hugger1991]

Thanks

[merlinsmomtwh]

Some people wait to geld until a year or older to let the horse really fill out.

At Cal Poly we gelded at 1 year old when we brought the yearlings in to begin their training.

[hugger1991]

Wouldnt he be able to get Butter pregnant? And wouldnt he get a taste of being a stalion?

[mandyme2]

We gelded our boy when he was about 9months he was with mom also and didn't get her prego,The reason we did it a bit earlier than a year as he was starting too act studly, such as getting nippy and pawing, after the surgery he was a perfect gentleman.It depends on personal preference I guess they sometimes geld as early as 4 months right after weaning,best of luck on your new baby boy,MandyMe2

[Heather T]

Some colts will get studly early. Some take awhile. We have a yearling colt (not even a year yet) that is already herding the girls in his pasture. He isn't acting fully studly, but he is studly, just not mean.

Then I have a two year old that's just starting to figure out that girls exist. He's very quiet. So - they're all different.

However - I thought you had to wait for them to "drop" before they were gelded?

[mandyme2]

Yeah I guess you would have to wait for them to drop LOL have heard of a few proud cut ones back in my dads days,Maybe thats what makes them act studly??Just like people they all mature at different ages.

[mandyme2]

I should say part what makes them act studly ,hormones are the most,and I am not even blonde lol,Mandyme2

[merlinsmomtwh]

Merlin is studly, but he was a stallion until he was 6 years old. Wish he would have been kept one, he would have had awesome babies! Great disposition...he just likes the girls, a lot

[joy]

We gelded our last two colts as soon as they dropped their testi, one of the colts was only 2 months, the other took a little longer. My vet says that any development a stallion has (larger jowels) etc, goes away when they are cut, even at 18 years of age. They do not develop any faster or bigger.

Remember, a good stud makes a GREAT GELDING!

[sassy1]

Youngest one I have had done was only 4 weeks old.

He had already been sold as a gelding to some people I knew and as they wanted him and his mum to go live at their place for a while, it was more convenient all round to do him then.

And there is also the benefit that he has to walk around after mum to get a feed and so doesn't just stand in a corner and sulk!

[Jen]

admin said:

Some colts will get studly early. Some take awhile. We have a yearling colt (not even a year yet) that is already herding the girls in his pasture. He isn't acting fully studly, but he is studly, just not mean.

Then I have a two year old that's just starting to figure out that girls exist. He's very quiet. So - they're all different.

However - I thought you had to wait for them to "drop" before they were gelded?

if you go by that rule, my mares first colt could have been gelded on day one, and her second colt on day 5
they both were gelded at 6 months, both show no signs of bad effects of gelding young, both are very well muscled for being pasture ordiments for a few years

[Jen]

joy said:

We gelded our last two colts as soon as they dropped their testi, one of the colts was only 2 months, the other took a little longer. My vet says that any development a stallion has (larger jowels) etc, goes away when they are cut, even at 18 years of age. They do not develop any faster or bigger.
Remember, a good stud makes a GREAT GELDING!

very true we have a percharon gelding who was gelded at 17yrs old, he has the studly neck, but from pulling a cart, he has yet to lose that muscle and he is now in his 20's, but thats a worked based and breed based thing not stallion based

[downundermum]

We gelded our colt at 6 months, he was still on his mum, we weaned him about a month after gelding him and he hasn't looked back.