welsh pony- stallion

[forry]

why wpuld one of the above deliberately attack bite and stomp a young lamb to death..

[cheries]

Oh dear. That's not very nice forry. Stallions are extremely aggressive by their nature (they're uncastrated) so they might have thought they were protecting another horse. I know lambs look very cute and defenceless to us but horses don't think in the same way as we do and he might have taken the lamb's running around as being an attacking movement. I watched Monty Roberts' (The Horse Whisperer) programme the other day where he talked about a young mare attacking a saddle because she thought it was a predator.
If this is your horse or your responsibility then please do not blame the horse, he was most probably just reacting to what he saw as a threat.

[Jibergrt]

Many years ago when I was a teenager I used to ride a welsh cob on the farm where I worked then one day got there and they had had it put down as it had attacked the lambs in the field. Seems to be a trait with the Welsh to persecute sheep :o)))

[Kleiber]

We used to have 2 Welsh pony colts and they could be quite nasty - one used to regularly attack one of my dogs if she went anywhere near the fence to their field. Ponies can be worse than horses sometimes in their bad tempers and stallions especially should be kept apart from all other livestock (unless it's a Charolais bull, who could probably hold his own....!!).

[horsestache1]

I agree with Cheries in everything she/he says. The stallion was only doing what he percieves as his job.

Incedentaly I have a Welsh Cob (gelding) who is absolutley f ine with sheep, dogs, alpaca's etc. But I would never graze a colt or stallion with other animals.