Nasty results on my horse from person low contained by the chain of command?

My 2 1/2 year old gelding, Nova, is pasture boarded at a local dairy farm in a 10 acre pasture next to 2 other geldings. He keeps getting adjectives scratched and bitten up. I had this problem near him in former times, and after moving him into several different pasture situations, the problem quit. Now for some reason, he is getting adjectives beat up again. If it be just a few scrape here and there, I wouldn't verbs about it, but his entire collar on both sides are COVERED in huge, cavernous bite marks that are not with the sole purpose unsightly, but a pain within the butt to have to tend to every evening. My horse is 2nd of 3 within the pecking order. My barn governor and I have tried him next to several different herds and he other gets pulse up. He's been at this dairy farm since Jan, so I'm sure he's used to the routine and daily grind at the arable farm. Every time my horse gets relocated, his best bud Tex is also relocated next to him because Tex is the only horse Nova have bonded with. The problem is Nova pesters horses and after doesn't move..


Answers:    If another horse is biting over the fence, a string of electric barrier will solve the problem. (IMO your barn manager should already enjoy thought of that)
It could be your horse is a trouble maker and requirements individual turnout. Individual turn out will get into your wallet a bit but will hang on to your horse from looking like me on a saturday morning after a friday darkness at the local knife and gun hotel.
It does sound similar to your horse (after this happening within more than one herd) might just hold a "here I am come kick my @$$ nature and the other horses oblige"
I've seen this earlier. It's almost like the horse LIKES to be picked on by others. I connote, after the first bite, isn't it logical to move off elsewhere? Other than psychotherapy, keeping him alone near Tex may be the only risk.
im not a professional.. but i have for a time knowledge from a friend that raise.. she says that immature males try to push their way contained by .. it's normal.. that more feed stations.. to separate them more or moving him again is the best way to solve it.. matter on the pasture they are kept in... and the group.. she says that 5-6 feed spots is a good start..

she have 15-20 acres and has at least possible that many ..
ok...some horses are better rotten alone like mine... my horse have a problem like that.. i get him out of that pasture and got a place of my own to put him.. and i get a mini.. they are best friends now.. some horses dont similar to to be around horses bigger than them..so thats y i put him with my mini and they are fine very soon
this happens alot beside a new horse within the feild keep an eye on the bully thats the horse that requirements to be removed he might have be proud cut when he was gelded and is showing dominence over any horse that will tolerate him tell the owner wear you board to any move your horse to a mare feild or move the bully to its own pen so your horse has a indiscriminate before this bully drives your horse thew the barrier.
to clear up the bad cuts put some pepration H on them and keep hold of them soft the hair will grow fund in 1 week
i am a horse trainer
best luck.
I would suggest that any he has to cram to move or you will have to pasture him and his buddy Tex alone. 10 acres is plenty of room for 3 geldings. I hold several horses and they have their ladder but it is very seldom that any of the horses capture severly beat up - repeatedly. It may be your simply option. Sorry couldn't be more assistance
Herd dynamics. One of God's mysteries.

My TWH mare? Absolute low-dog bottom of the pecking order previously coming to my house. To the point he had to seperate her because she be blasted so badly.

Move her to mine? Top of the mass. I have a pasture full of meek horses...but she's still the unquestioned boss mare. Geldings quake contained by her presence. Mares stay out of her way.

The reality that he's young...2 1/2...is a member of it. Younger horses and the aged tend to occupy the bottom of the pile. Could he be pastured with long yearlings?
try keeping a fly sheet on him next to a hood also- it doesn't make him hot, keep flies off, and keep the horses from making bad bites on his put by... they bite the sheet instead. also try moving him and tex to a pasture where they are the individual horses in the pasture.
I am sorry that this is occurring to your horse, and you did mention that he is a gelding...but, did YOU have him gelded or be he already gelded when you got him? He may be the one i.e. proud cut and is getting himself into mischief, and the other horses may be the ones that are retaliating...mares can be vicious as well when they want to be. Have you be able to a short time ago sit from a distance and observe what is really going on? If he is the one to be exact picking on others, then basically standing there letting them chew on him, you may want to enjoy his testosterone level checked and see if that could be the problem. I'm not trying to point fingers or attempting to place blame, but it seem as though the problem follows "him" around, rather than the other horses. I would love to see a follow up response from you if you hold a chance to do what I suggested. If he be very, severely submissive, other horses wouldn't bother fighting him, he would lately move off when they walk up...so, the issue has to at lowest lie somewhat with him.
nil is going to change unless you can transformation the attitude in your horse ( which you cant) or move him into a pasture beside just him and tex. those are your singular solutions. sorry!

good luck
it could be his friend tex doing it self look for another stable where he can hold his own pasture
sounds cruel, but i had to do it, be paid spacers between connecting fences...and run a single electric line, if the 1 horse leans over to nip him he'll attain a jolt, put some 2x4's on the top of the balustrade, about 3 ft long so that the top of the nouns is about 6 foot apart. and run the wire down the nip horses pasture. it SHOULD work, if u need greater detail msg me and i'll distribute u a link i own of the drawn up idea surrounded by much more clear details.
I had this problem near my 3 and 4 yr old geldings. My 4 yr prehistoric gelding was constantly hiding up my 3 yr old. Just similar to you are saying aweful bite grades covering his neck. I finally seperated them for 5 months. Then turned them wager on out together. The older one nip at him a couple of times and then adjectives of a sudden the younger one had it and kicked the snot out of the elder one! They still don't like respectively other but they aren't picking on one another. I think as your horse get older it will take better.
Have just started loaning a pony for my daughter, so appologies for not man an expert, only offering my proposal on what worked for us.
Our gelding was surrounded by a field beside 2 other geldings and 4 mares. Started to get bitten and kicked by one of the geldings who unambiguously was top dog. Got so fruitless the pony wouldn't even go surrounded by the field on his own. So we gone him stabled for 2 weeks and then started turning him out again but making sure he other goes into the pasture first for a while before the bully. Worked a treat. No more scratch, bites etc. Whether the bully one thought our pony was trying to muscle surrounded by on his mares I don't know.
Like I said, I'm no expert but it worked for us.
Good luck.
I would suggest getting him and his buddy Tex put into a pasture just by their selves. Most of Nova's problem is he is young at heart, and doesn't understand why the horses are react the way that they are. As foals are growing up they are once in a while kicked or bitten because they are babies. Their mare may discipline them, but other horses do not. As they grow out of their baby phase of vivacity they have to constantly grow and revise their new roles contained by life. They move about from having no chain of command in a group to low man on the totem pole. It takes some horses longer than others to realize that they can fend for themselves. I once have a gelding that was 13 when he finally figure out that he did not have to purloin the beatings from other horses. My 7 y/o paint mare lately figured it out, and immediately she is the herd boss.

Like I said, separate Nova and Tex into a pasture of their own and permit Nova mature some more earlier you try mixing him with a troop again.

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