Do horses and cows interact

Answer 1

NO! If you put a cow with a herd of horses that poor cow is going to be harrassed 24/7, unable to eat, sleep or even get away from these aggressive, bossy creatures. Horses tend to jealously guard their feed stations (especially if you have only one feed station to share between the animals), nipping, kicking and biting any other creature, be it a cow or llama or goat, that comes near to "steal" their food. If you are going to put a cow in with a herd of horses, make sure you find some way to feed her separately from the others, so that she gets her share and the horses don't steal it from her. If that is a problem, then it will be in the best interest of your cow to have her in a separate corral or pasture from the other horses. In her own corral she can eat whatever she likes in peace and sleep wherever she wishes.

It is alright to have horses and cows together if the cattle outnumber the horses (like if you have 1 or 2 horses in a herd of 30 or more cattle). This way the horses have a little harder time to keep their feed stations to themselves, and with more animals you have to feed more bales, which, in turn, means more opportunity for the cattle to eat their bale in peace without having to worry (much...) about getting kicked off their bale.

Answer 2

Yes, horses can be turned out together. If you must mix mares and geldings, it is best to allow only one gelding per group of mares. Some geldings may become aggressive if they think another gelding might "steal" their mares. Although I have seen many groups of mixed mares and geldings get along just fine. How well they get along depends on your individual group of horses.

Don't offer grain in pastures with more than one horse. Horses get aggressive and protective of their food. If hay must be fed, keep piles well away from corners where horses might get cornered off by a bully. Always keep the piles far enough apart that one horse cannot hog two piles. Leave an extra pile of hay (if there are 4 horses, leave 5 piles) to help prevent any fighting, and to ensure that the more submissive horses get enough to eat.

Keep stallions turned out alone. Never turn out stallions together with other stallions or geldings! Some breeders successfully keep their stallions pastured with the mares that they've been bred to (this is the normal herd structure in wild horses). However, monitoring breeding and behavior can be difficult in this situation. Don't turn your stallion out with any mare that is aggressive toward him or aggitated by him, mares WILL kick a stallion if they aren't interested in his breeding antics.

Be very careful who you turnout your pregnant mares and foals with. Some horses will beat-up on a new foal. Also, you don't want pregnant broodmares fighting with other horses while they are pregnant (to reduce chances of injury to the fetus), so don't turn them out with other aggressive mares. Mares and stallions generally stay pretty content when in each-other's company, however, if your stallion and mare are not pastured together on a regular basis, it is not recommended to keep your mare and foal turned out with the stallion unless you are sure that the stallion will not harm the foal. In wild horse herds, if the foal is a male (or "colt"), the herd stallion is likely to become more aggressive towards the colt as the colt ages. The stallion will normally kick a colt out of the herd when he reaches 1-2 years of age.

Answer 3

Yes. Cows and horses get on very well.

Horses help keep the cows from getting worms.

Answer 4

yes, but some horses might chase cattle

Answer 5

It depends on the horse, and the dog.