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Post by desperatehorsewife on Oct 27, 2010 0:52:43 GMT -5
21 Kigers on the road...saw the backs of 3 more up over a ridge, no clue how many more may have been up there.    Dark grullo stallion in the back has a half ear; bay or dark dun stallion off to the right. |
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Post by lilnagy on Oct 27, 2010 22:24:20 GMT -5
I find it interesting that a stallion will tollerate another mature stallion hanging around. Tracey has other pics of a different HMA with a mare, her youngster, and two stallions, repeatedly in pics together. They seem to have a comfortable arrangement. Have any of you who have been out there on the HMAs seen more of this? Lil
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Oct 27, 2010 22:37:03 GMT -5
As long as they're not thinking too heavily about breeding, they tend to hang together during the winter months. The first time I met Honor, he was standing behind a band of mares who weren't his! His girls were down the hill a bit, but he was mingling with the old buckskin's girls. Maybe thinking he could pick out a girl for the coming spring? LOL... On the Steens there were five stallions co-mingling with the mares, and a sixth one hanging on the fringe (older boy who wasn't allowed to come into their circle.) When motorcycles went past on the road, the horses heard the engines and it wasn't long before the bachelor band joined the others, and they all took off together. I find herd dynamics so interesting!  Edited to add...Honor is now running with a little sorrel who was with that buckskin back in '08  |
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Post by DianneC on Oct 27, 2010 23:59:10 GMT -5
Great shots Tracey! Even in spring there can be a Lieutenant stallion that stays at the edges of the herd. He may help defend the herd from other stallions and in return is in position to take over the herd, as that one eventually did. The mares get to know him too that way. First herd of Kigers I saw was that way, although the lead stallion was chasing away a group of bachelors that got too close.
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Post by fantasykiger on Oct 28, 2010 15:52:50 GMT -5
Just love these photos ...thanks so much for bringing then wild Kigers to those of us who can not visit them personaly.
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Post by Jackie on Oct 28, 2010 17:33:07 GMT -5
Yes, thanks for helping me live vicariously!
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Post by sbutter on Oct 28, 2010 22:18:46 GMT -5
Your living my dream!!! I gotta get me up there one of these days....
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Post by stlkigers on Oct 28, 2010 22:40:34 GMT -5
Sigh........wonderful pics T!
Thanks!
Angela
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Post by desperatehorsewife on Oct 30, 2010 14:28:50 GMT -5
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Post by prizmbluekigers on Oct 31, 2010 15:09:10 GMT -5
For several years, this herd has varied from 19 to 35 in our footage and we have seen multiple stallions among them. We may see a large group at one point of the day and later we have seen part of that group; stallion, several mares and babies seperated from the rest, only to see them all together again within a day or so. Last summer we saw two grulla stallions, two dun stallions and a copper or bay stallion all in that area with 9 foals, some older foals and two or three year olds and 13 mares. The grulla stallions have had different mares with them for the past three years. I never grow tired of watching them, thanks for sharing. We have not been out in s few months and I was glad to see them.
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Post by DianneC on Oct 31, 2010 23:21:54 GMT -5
Does the darker grulla with the white left rear have a name? As Tracey saw, he's missing part of his right ear.
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