Desperate Horsewives...

Move over primetime, I've my own goddamn drama in my pasture!

Ever since Pearl moved home, it's kinda upset the balance of the herd. Now horses have their own unique social structure, so this isn't unusual for there to be some competition for Alpha horse when a new animal arrives. Now, before Pearl moved in, Ginger ran the herd, and occasionally, was pretty bossy to Reba, and got Mac pushing her around too. Nothing violent, just pushy, and since she's not in foal, I attributed it to her heat cycle. Initially I split them up and put Mac with Pearl for 2 reasons; he usually gets along with everyone, and I wanted them to get used to one another because I intended to harness them together this winter. In a strange turn, Mac started being a prick to Pearl, and was pining for Ginger (forlorn looks over the fence) but Ginger stopped bossing Reba.

Then yesterday I opened the fence between the four.

Biiiiiiig mistake!

Took a while for them to figure out the gate was open, but when they did I had a real honest to goodness horse cat fight as Ginger went after Pearl. I was like some twisted soap opera where the women go batshit and start pulling hair and kicking and squealing. So I had to wade in between two 1400+ lbs crazed bitches (OK, 1 crazed bitch and one defending herself, but I digress.) and break up the fight and separate them. Meanwhile Mac and Reba are running crazy like they were watching a UFC cage match.

Now Ginger and MacArthur are together and Reba and Pearl are in the other half. Ginger has taken to the XXX equivalent of horsey foreplay to impress upon the rest that if this is the only man (OK half anyway) in town, then he's mine. I hope the neighbours kids don't come by when this is going on, I can just hear them. "Why is Ginger sniffing MacArthur down there? Ewww! What's that?"
"Uh nothing. Go ask your mother."

So now I've got one hormonal crazed mare, 1 disgruntled old bitty, one pregnant voyeur and one gender confused gelding.

We now return to our regularly scheduled barn already in progress...