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What does mare -s mean on ponybox?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A gelding is a http://www.answers.com/topic/castration animal - in English, the term specifically refers to a castrated male http://www.answers.com/topic/horse or otherhttp://www.answers.com/topic/equus-genus such as ahttp://www.answers.com/topic/donkey or amule. As averb, it also refers to the castration procedure itself. The word comes from thehttp://www.answers.com/topic/old-norse-1 geldr ("barren").gelding Castration, and the elimination of hormonally-drivenhttp://www.answers.com/topic/horse-behavior associated with a http://www.answers.com/topic/stallion-horse, allows a male horse to be calmer and better-behaved, making the animal quieter, gentler and potentially more suitable as an everydayworking-animal.

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