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I have had two healing sessions lately, where male horses were complaining about castration and asking us to not castrate on auto-pilot, but to think through the whole process.

Well, OK, now I’ve thought about it … and from a practical point of view, I would probably still castrate my young colts and I expect that I would do it before they had a chance to learn what they were missing.

In the past, castrations have typically been done for two reasons – one to stop the colt or stallion from being able to make a mare pregnant and secondly to make them quieter and more amenable to being handled.  Geldings typically have a much more even temperament than stallions and even mares.

However, for those of you thinking about gelding your colt just for behavioural reasons, there is a good reason to think again.

Click here for the rest of this article, including what castration can mean to a gelding.