How do you know when your horse is in heat?
coolgirl2430 asked:
My horse will be 3 this summer. My husband says you know because their **** will wink. No idea about this! Anyway, she is getting very aggresive with our gelding. He is spending alot of time at her backend. She is not an aggressive horse at all but she keeps biteing him and does not want him anywhere near her. What are some signs that their coming into heat?
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My horse will be 3 this summer. My husband says you know because their **** will wink. No idea about this! Anyway, she is getting very aggresive with our gelding. He is spending alot of time at her backend. She is not an aggressive horse at all but she keeps biteing him and does not want him anywhere near her. What are some signs that their coming into heat?
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When she’s around other horses, especially new ones, she’ll squeal, squat, and ***. The liquid that comes out looks almost buttermilk color. She may raise her tail alot and be more anxious than ususal, looking for that stallion. There are mares (I have one) that are very difficult to observe in heat. They’re a little more subtle and unless experienced you may never get them in foal. I find it best, when breeding her, to put her in the field with the stallion and other mares. She thrives on the herd environment and we don’t have to keep checking on her and teasing.
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exactly what u described!!!!!!!!!!!!! when ur husband says her **** will wink he means it will twitch constantly
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when she around horses she will squat 2 *** but sometimes nothing will come out, and there will be a little blood too. you know when they *** there is a thing that pops out of the vagina, well when she is in heat that will pop out all the time that is winking, and she will have her tail up a lot.
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My mare use to do the same thing when she was around the gelding, but only when she was in heat. She will hold her tail up and if you observe her vagina, it will twitch (called winking). She may also have a lot of white discharge around the area (looks like white slime). She might be irritable, even with you. There are horses that have silent heats and don’t show any symptoms. These mares are very hard to breed. I had one horse and the only symptom she showed was irritability.
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backing up to your gelding squealing switching her tail, squatting and ****** with her tail raised, her ***** winking, and a bitchy attitude in general.
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Some mares do not show when they’re in heat, which can make them dificult to tell.
First, remember on average it is every 21 days, only in the spring to fall months, and lasts 3-5 days.
Horses that are fairly extreme in showing will squat and pee, especially in front of other horses. Some will squeal or neigh more. Some will actually back their back end right up to another horse, asking them to mount her. “Winking” means that they tighten and then losen their ******. Mares often do this right after they void, anyhow, but when they are in heat they will do it more, and at times when they do not void. It does look a bit like a wink if you’re viewing from the back end. They will sometimes lift their tails slightly more than usual, and at times hold their tails slightly to the side.
Other mares will be much more subtle. My current show mare has more frequent and looser BMs when she is in heat, that is about the only way I can tell. She isn’t a horse that passes manure normally when I lead her up to the hitching post and groom her, if she does I begin to watch her carefully as that can be a sign she is in heat. She may also void a bit more frequently than usual. If I watch carefully I sometimes see her wink, but even that isn’t very frequent.
The only positive way to tell if the mare is coming into heat is to have her ultrsounded and see what size her folicale is, or have her teased by an experienced stallion. But maiden mares sometimes don’t even respond well to a stallion at first, so don’t be surprised if you can’t decide what’s happening when she’s around your gelding!
As for aggression around other horses, this likely is not related to heat. Many mares become somewhat less aggressive and more friendly to their pasture mates when actually in heat, and then return to their “boss mare” routine when they are out of heat. When she bites at him and chases him away, you can probably assume she is not in heat, when she is move lovey-dovey and lets him be closer she may be in heat. Having said this, horses have their friends and romanic interests just as people do, some horses don’t get along even when the mare is in heat.
I suspect her more aggressive behavior is because she is becoming mature and now is less passive than she had been. She has gone from being a baby around this horse, to now being an adult, and she may be working her way up the pecking order. Many people find mares and geldings less than ideal together for this reason, there can be a fair amount of fighting at times. Often big horse ranches keep their mares in one pasture, and geldings in a seperate one to stop some of this fighting. But if you only have a pair of horses, they most likely can live together in relative peace.
My current mare and a young gelding I recently sold did not get along. The mare was older and the boss, but the gelding was always in her space. She would get after him, he’d fight back and someone was always getting kicked, and hard at times. Yet this mare is very gentle and long suffering with my mini pony mare. I now sold that first gelding (not because they were fighting, but for different reasons) and have a new yearling gelding. This new gelding is very polite and careful and gives the boss mare lots of respect, and they are getting along very well. There is never a fight or any problems. I don’t know if this will change as the yearling matures, but for now all is well.
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It can sometimes be difficult to know when a mare is in heat when a stallion is not in the area. Yes, winking along with a hunch up and ********* are all good signs that your mare is in heat. If you plan on breeding this mare, please have someone do it that is proffesional. There is a big difference between a mare that is in heat and a mare that is in a “standing heat” and only being teased to a stallion will tell you that.
Breeding horses can be very dangerous to both horses and handlers.
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My mare that is a thoroughbred is really bad in heat because she gets really hyper spooks aat things easily doesnt listen she is bad i mean nvr kick but okasionally bites me beczuase she doesnt lik the bit but ths it