Cross Breeds - If you have 4 gelded boy horses and get 1 girl horse how will the boy react and the girl react?

If you have 4 gelded boy horses and get 1 girl horse how will the boy react and the girl react?

I have 4 gelded boys and no girls. I might get a girl soon but was wondering how the boy and the girl would react to this? Please help! Thanks :)

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If they were gelded young they should be fine. Sometimes geldings do think they are still stallions, but you shouldn't ave any problems.
You would call them as 4 geldings and one filly or mare!! Horses are not girls and boys. If you kept them together I would think that you had better stock up on the medicine and be prepared to use it because when the filly or mare comes in heat the most dominant gelding will try to keep the others away from her and there is generally a lot of kicking and biting that will go on and usually some of them are hurt.
A girl horse is called a mare... Most geldings are fine with mares, but if you have any competitive geldings, you're gonna find out real quick once that mare gets added to the mix. Introduce them slowly and be cautious. Any signs of aggression and you should separate them immediately.
It depends on each individual horse! I just turned a filly out with my 4 geldings and 2 mares. One gelding just didn't like her and kept running her. He got moved to a separate field with 2 different geldings and is just fine now. Each horse had it's own personality just like people do -- you can't lump them all in to one general assumption! Good luck - hope all your horses get along together!
First of all they are geldings, stallions or colts and mares or fillies not boys and girls. I work in a stable of 36 horses. 6 mares and 30 geldings. Everyday they a let out together and so far we haven's had any serious trouble. We do have one dominant gelding and he does herd the mares together but everyone has learned to keep out of his way. You may find if one of your geldings are more dominant it may fight with the other to show who is boss and who is the head horse, but its all natural. I wouldn't panic.
It sometimes does a pushy gelding a world of good to be put out for a while with an alpha mare. Your horses will explain all this stuff to you. It's rather hard to predict, especially as we clowns out here in Y!Answerland are not familiar with your horses. We do wonder, though, how you have the horses but not the vocabulary.
First of all, it's 4 geldings and a mare. Not four gelded boys and a girl. And they should be fine, if you're still worried, then introduce them slowly.
Should be no more problems than if you were to introduce any other horse to the herd. The mare might prove to be the dominant one since in the wild mares are the alphas.
Since they're gelded nothing much should happen except normally introductory behavior. The mare might be slightly different, she might get a bit flirty, especially if she's in heat. Depends on your horses though
I have 3 geldings and one mare and they get along fine. The mare is most definitely the one in charge. In every mixed herd I've had a mare has taken charge. The geldings don't react any differently to her than they would another gelding.
geldings* not 'gelded boys' and mare not 'girl horse' the mare may go in heat, i don't have much experience with how geldings handle it as i haven't owned a gelding