What Can I Do With a Yearling?
from mares in heat. Some colts start showing an interest in mares at a very young age and some particularly precocious individuals may be able to breed a mare.
Although a colt is not technically reproductively mature until it is about 23 years old many a breeding accident has happened with a colt thought too young to be fertile. Gelding castration can be done as soon as the testes have descended into the scrotum.
If the prime reason for a horses existence is as a pleasure horse than the sooner gelding is done the better. Although some breeders may have reasons to geld later for the average horse owner a young gelding may be much easier to deal with than a young stallion who is more interested in mares than paying mind to its handler.
مع وصول أونصة الذهب إلى مستويات قياسية تجاوزت 2500 دولار، يجد المواطن المصري نفسه مضطراً لموازنة استثماراته بين الذهب واحتياجاته الأخرى، خاصة مع ارتفاع أسعار السيارات مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، وبي إم دبليو، مما يزيد من التحديات المالية التي يواجهها.
Short training periods to teach good ground manners while a horse is young will make the job of introducing the saddle and rider or harness and cart easier when the time comes.