Teaching my newborn colt to be a good mannored stallion.?
Well my reining bred colt was born this week after waiting 350 days post a breeding fee that broke the bank 
! My plan is to see how he does in training/showing before cutting him, however, though I have worked with all sorts of stallions I have never done their training myself. What can I do now to get him to be a well mannored stallion later. All of the foals I have raised up from birth so far (all fillies) I went about training them to be good mannored family horses (aka pocket pals really). But I would like to get input on the differences for sculpting him into a gentleman should be prove worthy of his manhood.
Stud colts tend to be more nippy and touchy, but that often is all you see for the first year. As yearlings they can be real pains in the neck – somehow a yearling stud is the worst because they have hormones but don’t know what to do with them, and how to behave around everyone, including other horses. So if I were you I’d go into this thinking “we’ll see how this goes, and decide from there.” If your colt remains polite and respectful you can keep postponing gelding him, but if he starts becoming more work than worth, then get him snipped.
I am also really strong in making my foals trusting and gentle, but that isn’t enough. Once a foal becomes gentle, then they go through the whole pecking order thing. So its important that you become the boss horse from the beginning, and keep your horse gentle, but polite and mannerly. I used to like my pocket pal horses, too, until I got a few that weren’t horribly polite, and suddenly I taught them to back off just a bit while remaining my buddies. In a herd a horse doesn’t normally hang all over and cuddle too close to the boss, anyhow, you need to really keep that in mind when working with a stud colt as you might get away with it with a filly or gelding, but not with them!
Is this going to be your only foal? The one thing I would avoid is that he lives alone once weaned from his mother. Find a way to keep him with other horses as long as possible, and alot of your problems will be postponed. Many young studs are confined to seperate quarters and don’t get to learn how to get along with other horses, and this will impact their respect on you, as well. So keep him with a group of buddies, or at least one other young horse, if at all possible. Once he’s a yearling you might have to keep him seperated from the girls, but there’s no reason that he still can’t run with other colts. And many breeders put an older horse in with the yearlings, just to keep them in their place! This will do your young stallion’s mental health more good than all the other training you can manage, and if they are kept together from the start some young stallions can remain with other male horses – you will have to monitor how aggresive he becomes.
Lastly, don’t trust him the same way you trust your others. Keep your eyes open, keep him paying attention and moving his feet promptly forward, backwards and sideways when you ask him, make sure he gets lots of turnout time, and then see how it goes. There are many top geldings out there that would have made top stallions, but they had a lack of focus and a lack of manners that changed drastically when gelded.
Lastly, don’t forget the liability risks you have once you own a stallion. (You probably know since you’ve had stallions before) You need extra good fencing, safety for all neighboring mares and geldings, protection for visitors including children, etc.
Good luck with your young man. If everything goes right it might be worth the hassle.
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