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A 3-year-old gelding. A gelding is a castrated male horse or other equine, such as a pony, donkey or a mule. The term is also used with certain other animals and livestock, such as domesticated camels. [1] By comparison, the equivalent term for castrated male cattle would be steer (or bullock), and wether for sheep and goats.
In some regions, a distinction between stockers and feeders (by those names) is the distinction of backgrounding versus immediate sale to a finisher. A castrated male is called a steer in the United States. Older steers are sometimes called bullocks in other parts of the world, [6] but in North America this term refers only to a young bull ...
Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
[12] [13] [14] New Forest stallions, when not in their breeding work, take part on the annual round-ups, working alongside mares and geldings, and compete successfully in many disciplines. [15] [16] There are drawbacks to natural management, however. One is that the breeding date, and hence foaling date, of any given mare will be uncertain.
The remoteness of New Mexico from the seat of government in Mexico remained a characteristic of the settlement during the next two and one-half centuries. [2] [3] In 1598, about 50,000 Puebloans inhabited the valley of the Rio Grande River and its tributaries in New Mexico. They were sedentary agricultural people living in about 60 villages ...
An adult male horse, if left intact, is called either a "stallion" if used for breeding, or a horse (sometimes full horse); if castrated, it is called a gelding. In some cases, particularly informal nomenclature, a gelding under four years is still called a colt.
"The Pennsylvanian section at Priest Canyon, southern Manzano Mountains, New Mexico" (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Field Conference Series. 67; Lucas, Spencer G.; Tanner, Lawrence H. (2021). "Late Pennsylvanian Calcareous Paleosols from Central New Mexico: Implications for Paleoclimate" (PDF). New Mexico Geology. 43 (1): 3–9; Myers, D ...
Amazombie (2006, gelding) – Won 2011 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Eclipse Award for Champion Sprinter. [6] Commentator (gelding, 2001) – Two time Whitney Handicap winner and New York Horse of the Year (2007, 2008). [8] Eldaafer (2005, gelding) – Winner of 2010 Breeders' Cup Marathon. Retired to Old Friends in 2014 with his goats, Yahoo and ...