stallion poop

[Horsecrazy27]

Does anyone else notice the intense smell? Or is it just my boy? LOL!!!

GOSH, you can smell his poo from 200 feet away. I have 2 others "in tact" and they don't have that issue, but they are much younger......why does his smell soooooo bad?

[Thomas_1]

Nope. Can't smell it from here ;)

[amdfarm]

LOL, Thomas!

Can't say that I've noticed my boy's poo smelling any worse than the other horses'.

[pwynnnorman]

Yes! And it definitely seems that the older they get, the smellier it gets! I haven't noticed it at all with my five-year-old, but his dad's was incredible.

[gillenwaterfarm]

Nope, don't notice a smell...but I do love to clean his paddock! Neat piles instead of everywhere!

[2Horse]

I do love to clean his paddock! Neat piles instead of everywhere!

yes! Thats one of the perks of owning a stallion! Neat stud piles, even in the stall!:winkgrin:

[crosscreeksh]

I don't notice the smell being stronger, but as the others have said...there are neat piles around his 4 acre paddock. Now on the other hand...he ONLY pees in ONE spot. Fortunately it is on the opposite side of the pasture from our house, but adjacent to a dirt road. When you go down the dirt road it smells like a cesspool in that one spot!! The grass is black and that area STINKS!! Of course that is better than as if it was in his stall!!!

[amdfarm]

I will add mine to the neat pile group also. He has two acres to himself and only poops in a few spots where he likes to stand and NEVER around his food. He's pees anywhere... used to mark his food and territory like a dog and that got really annoying, but thankfully he outgrew that little quirk.

As for smell... as bitter cold as it is, I think the poop starts to freeze the minute it leaves their body, therefore nothing to smell.

[dbaygirl]

I've never noticed a bad smell to my guy's poop and I do love his tidiness in the paddock and stall.

Not to steal this thread, but I have a 7 month old filly that watches big bro (stallion) a lot and I have observed her standing over a pile of her mom's poo, lifting her tail and peeing on or behind/beside it. I couldn't figure this out and then someone told me that foals that are raised with stallions do this or maybe some of them do it? Has anyone else observed this odd behaviour for a filly? She is feminine in every other way. :-) (And nobody's poop smells bad here, I've never noticed that with any horse, just one of my cats when he was young! He seems to have outgrown it, thank goodness. But it was very RANK!)

[Horsecrazy27]

Hello,

Yes, he has neat little piles, but all over his stall, he walks around them (14x16) stall. He is funny and won't even lay down if I don't clean his stall at night. Silly boy.

BUT, his poo REAKS!!!!! SO super potent, burns the nose hairs.

[sanctuary]

Haven't noticed the poo, but boy, does their PEE smell! The barn help was cleaning out our stallions wet spot one morning while their was lessons in the barn and all the kids started gagging! I've noticed it with every stallion we've had, as well as broodmares in foal, or with new babies.

I think it has to do with hormone levels and ability to mark their territory. OP, maybe since your two younger ones aren't the "senior" stallion, something in their bodies doesn't make them smell so bad. Like in the wild, when there is a dominant stallion, I'd bet that any scents of younger stallions would be asking for trouble. So the less fragrant the better????

I hope that babble make sense, too tired to articulate!

[amdfarm]

I've never noticed a bad smell to my guy's poop and I do love his tidiness in the paddock and stall.

Not to steal this thread, but I have a 7 month old filly that watches big bro (stallion) a lot and I have observed her standing over a pile of her mom's poo, lifting her tail and peeing on or behind/beside it. I couldn't figure this out and then someone told me that foals that are raised with stallions do this or maybe some of them do it? Has anyone else observed this odd behaviour for a filly? She is feminine in every other way. :-) (And nobody's poop smells bad here, I've never noticed that with any horse, just one of my cats when he was young! He seems to have outgrown it, thank goodness. But it was very RANK!)

I've not noticed marking w/ any of the foals at all. My stallion was a babysitter for a few of them, two fillies one time and one colt another time and they never caught onto his marking ways. Same for when he was in w/ mares and foals before they were weaned. Granted I don't know what they did when I wasn't out there watching them either? I had a mare that marked her hay pile, too. Very annoying, but she always cleaned it up.

Oh yes, strong mare in heat urine. I can tell just by that who is in heat, it's awful!!!

[MagicRoseFarm]

We use shavings for bedding, my boy piles his manure tightly in the corner... somehow he USED to urinate on top of that pile...

UNTIL

I kept him somewhere that bedded on straw for a few weeks

NOW

he pulls his hay out of the rack and urinates on that!

grrrrrrrrr

[Ladybug Hill]

Actually, most of my mares are potty trained in their stalls and poop in a corner too. There is definitely a method to encouraging this behavior. It is really really nice. My 2007 filly poops all in a pile already and the 2007 gelding is finally learning!

My 3 year old colt had not developed a strong manure or urine smell when he left here. I had an older pony stallion for a while and he didn't smell strong either.

[Spectrum]

I've never noticed a bad smell to my guy's poop and I do love his tidiness in the paddock and stall.

Not to steal this thread, but I have a 7 month old filly that watches big bro (stallion) a lot and I have observed her standing over a pile of her mom's poo, lifting her tail and peeing on or behind/beside it. I couldn't figure this out and then someone told me that foals that are raised with stallions do this or maybe some of them do it? Has anyone else observed this odd behaviour for a filly? She is feminine in every other way. :-) (And nobody's poop smells bad here, I've never noticed that with any horse, just one of my cats when he was young! He seems to have outgrown it, thank goodness. But it was very RANK!)

I used to own a young mare that would "mark" with poo. She'd walk around like a stallion and drop a couple pellets on top of all the other horses' piles.

Interestingly, she was also incredibly neat in her stall- everything in one pile and far away from her food.

Spectrum.

[Blonde Filly]

[QUOTE=Ladybug Hill;2952478]Actually, most of my mares are potty trained in their stalls and poop in a corner too. There is definitely a method to encouraging this behavior. It is really really nice. My 2007 filly poops all in a pile already and the 2007 gelding is finally learning!QUOTE]

OK you drop the potty trained line, but don't tell us how you do the training?!?! :p Now you must give up your secrets to this "training" you do!!! :eek:

Now that said, I did get a mare from holland that was a dutch wb and she trained every single horse in "HER" 20 acre field. Everytime a horse would start to pee or poop she would herd them very agressively to the designated spot she had picked out in the field in a corner nearest the run in shed. I had a manure pile in an open 20 acre field..there was never one pile any where in that field while she was around. I even use to leave a muck bucket in the corner of her stall and she would poop and pee in it...just had to empty the bucket to clean her stall..never needed new bedding!!! :winkgrin: But I did not "potty train" her at all..she came trained. I believe she was just a smart mare and where she came from probably did the deep bedding method and she did not like a dirty stall that was only cleaned once a year in the spring like alot do overseas.

OK...give the secret!!!!! :D

[Ladybug Hill]

My horses generally will have a place they go in the field but aren't really potty trained there.

I find to get them potty trained in a stall--water, feed bucket and hay must strictly on one wall--best on the wall with the stall door. When I get new loads of shavings I pull all the old ones to the back 1/3 of the stall and bed the front 2/3 with the new shavings. Another important feature is that the stall is truly big enough for that sized horse--makes it easier for them to avoid walking through that area except to poop. Having said that my stalls actually are very small, but my young horses usually learn when they are young and smaller.

It also helps that I have full stall walls for the most part. They can't really see each other and interact too much which I think helps too. I usually only use the one stall door to go in and out of too.

Edited to add: I don't really do this on purpose--I just noticed that it worked out like this and I have found simple tactics that encourage the behavior.

AND I keep the stalls IMMACULATE.

They just seem to learn. Some are better than others. I have sold a couple of horses that were very messy stall keepers that I could not break of that. I wouldn't say that was the only reason I sold those horses, but if I have to break a tie between selling one horse or another--the messy one is going to go! LOL

As long as the horse isn't an overly nervous type this seems to work fairly well. Oh and not keeping them in too long at a time. 8 hours at the most during the "training" process helps.

[cheekyhorse]

I thought I was the only one who noticed that it smelled stronger! LOL!!
Pacific's poop stinks, and he's SO messy in his stall it drives me bonkers. In the paddock, it's all stacked in a neat stud pile, but in the stall he has blenders on his feet.:no: And he poops in his hay....grrrrrrrr, men....

[amdfarm]

I thought I was the only one who noticed that it smelled stronger! LOL!!
Pacific's poop stinks, and he's SO messy in his stall it drives me bonkers. In the paddock, it's all stacked in a neat stud pile, but in the stall he has blenders on his feet.:no: And he poops in his hay....grrrrrrrr, men....

LOL, men! Stud pile, huh? My gelding does that. He has his own personal toilet in a 13 acre pasture where he'll start a pile and then when he has to go again, he finds his pile and gingerly backs up to it and poops right on top of it. I'd never seen a horse do that until him. One time I left it to see how tall it would get before cleaning it up. It was almost 3' tall and out in the open. When I knocked it down and cleaned it up, he started a new pile in another area. Never seems to use the same place twice if I clean them up and none of the other horses have copied him yet, but they will go in the same area he does.

My stallion has an area, but doesn't have stacked piles unless he's in a stall then he picks one corner.

[Marieke]

OK, since somebody mentioned potty training, here we go..... :D

Back in the day when I was doing my certifications I had to take this 1 class with a partner, and I was assigned the odd one. So we are grooming the horse, and she tells me how she has all her horses potty trained. They all poop in a muck bucket. She has them in her stalls and her paddocks. She spent lots of time training the 1st mare, and then by example (according to her, what do I know) the rest especially the fools, followed. She told me she only has to dump the bucket 1x day adn that is it.

Nice lady, but a little cockoo???? :D