Do mares and geldings get on?

Geldings and mares typically interact peacefully and can develop friendships like those formed among horses of like or mixed sexes. They demonstrate natural social behaviours through grooming as a bonding activity, playing or sparring for leisure, communicating using body language.

Geldings tend to be calmer with other horses with more stable emotional states compared to stallions who might engage in dominance behaviours more often due to testosterone influences on behaviour. Mares might express hierarchies based on individual preferences in terms of compatible personalities during interactions at pasture; nevertheless, their behaviour is mainly cooperative, maintaining amicable connections within mixed or similar groupings.