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Stallion Kills Foal *video*

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#1 ·
This video depicts animal violence, be advised.

I'm just wondering what could have been wrong with the foal for the stallion to kill it. He was a GORGEOUS stallion though, looks a lot like Wiski.

 
#3 ·
If you watch the rest of that documentary, the foal was sick and couldn't stand up. It had been quite awhile since the birth if I remember right and the dam and the other mares had tried to get the foal up.
The stallion was known to be aggressive and the documentarians were all pretty shocked by the whole thing.

Dont know how normal it is for a stallion to pick up and kill a foal by the neck but it makes sense if you think about it
 
#4 ·
It's the CIIIIIIRCCCCLE OF LIIIIIIFEEEE.

I've seen the whole thing. The foal has been down for hours after it was born.

It was crippled, or sick.

In nature, only the fittest survive. Nature doesn't keep things going with medicine like we do.

I believe in the grand scheme of things being killed by that stallion beats slowly starving to death scared and alone as the herd moved on. Or dragged away by a scavenger to be eaten.

You say he WAS a gorgeous stallion. Has something happened to that herd? Is he dead?
 
#6 ·
i watched on animal palnet or the discovery channel, it was a zebra mare with her foal, and they were being attcked by heyenas(?) and the mare could do nothing for the foal cuz she was way outnumbered so she kicked it in the head so it wouldnt be rip to shreds while it was still alive buy the stupid heyens.
 
#10 ·
Yes, I agree that was sad.
It's a huge debate whether it was right or wrong.
From one angle, it is right If the foal couldn't move and would have had a slow and painful death.
On the other angle, it was wrong if the stallion killed it just because It wasn't his...
 
#11 ·
The stallion killed the foal due to the fact the foal could not walk, rather than have the foal killed by predators he put it out of its misery. This is natural and happens all the time in the wild and also in domesticated animals..... mother dogs will eat a sick/deformed pup.

this stallion was not being cruel, he was only doing what nature intended him to do :)
 
#12 ·
Listening to it, the mother and that herd left and another herd moved in and that stallion killed it. So the father stallion's name is Boomer and the Stallion who killed the foal was named Looking Glass. It seems Looking glass killed the foal because it wasn't his but Boomers herd left it there because it's back legs weren't working.
 
#13 ·
I remember streaming this entire show on the 'net somewhere long ago. After a heated argument happened on another horse forum. Just over that clip.

I am certain I remember the narrator talking about how the foal had been down for a long time. It may have been the other stallions foal but there was also something not right with it.
 
#14 ·
I believe this is from Clould stallion of the Rockies, and the stallion killed the crippled foal so the herd would move on they didn't want to leave the baby even though he would never get up. I bought the series on amazon for 30 bucks I think its really interesting to see the mustangs and how they act. It also covers the round-ups.
 
#15 ·
I won't venture a guess on why he killed it but that still made me almost sick to my stomach. {:( I figure that it was probably best for the foal because there was something wrong with it but it is still sad.

On a lighter note, Looking Glass was just drop dead gorgeous. :P''''''
 
#17 ·
So both points were right. Something was wrong with the foal AND it was a stallion that was not it's father who killed it.
 
#18 ·
I saw this program on PBS under the title "Nature." As I recall the foal was unable to stand and the stallion who killed it wasn't the father.

Stallions will kill any foals that that come from competing stallions because it would be a threat to their lines and more compitition for their own offspring in the future. It often happens when the stallions steal mares that have foals. So, even if the foal was healthy, Looking Glass would have killed it anyway.
 
#46 ·
Stallions will kill any foals that that come from competing stallions because it would be a threat to their lines and more compitition for their own offspring in the future. It often happens when the stallions steal mares that have foals. So, even if the foal was healthy, Looking Glass would have killed it anyway.
Not exactly true. Not all stallions will kill foals out of different stallions. Some do and some don't. New blood is good in a band, even if it is from a stallion's competition. Herd stallions understand that. But there is the idea of only the strong surviving, so if the foal was indeed sick or had something wrong with it, the stallion had every reason to kill it.
 
#20 ·
That is nature for you. If the foal's hind legs would have been working properly that other stallion probably never would have gotten close enough to it to kill it. Like she said at the end of the clip - he actually did that foal a favor. Yes, the death was brutal, but it was quick. Better than laying the grass starving or having predators eat on him while he is still alive.
 
#21 ·
I have seen this clip time and time again. The stallion was doing what nature told him to do: to kill the weak, keep the strong. The foal had been struggling for hours to rise and could not do so. The strongest survive, that is the tough fact of life. It is sickening to watch (it made my stomach drop the first time I saw it) but its nature at it's best...
 
#22 ·
my stomach just turned froms seeing that. Thats discusting. But its true i rather see the foal go out that way then just being left there. Growing up we had a very aggresive stud. My mom would always tell me to stay far away from him. One day he got out and killed one of out yearlings.
 
#24 ·
There is absolutely no such thing as "right" and "wrong" when it comes to animals. That foal got the absolute most humane death he possibly could have had, and don't kid yourself that death wasn't coming in some size shape or form, all of them a lot more brutal then that.

It's only human weakness that gives us this attitude that everything should be saved. Life and death are part of life, and only the fittest SHOULD survive. Unfortunately, this is an adage we've all but forgotten as humans in our desperate belief that everything should live, regardless of the pain and suffering it may endure.

To be honest, I found it fascinating. I'd have expected a horse to paw/kick something to death, I didn't realize that as a prey animal, they do appear to have knowledge of vulnerable spots resulting in death, as he clearly went for the spine/throat area. Very interesting to learn new things about animals!
 
#26 ·
There is absolutely no such thing as "right" and "wrong" when it comes to animals. That foal got the absolute most humane death he possibly could have had, and don't kid yourself that death wasn't coming in some size shape or form, all of them a lot more brutal then that.

It's only human weakness that gives us this attitude that everything should be saved. Life and death are part of life, and only the fittest SHOULD survive. Unfortunately, this is an adage we've all but forgotten as humans in our desperate belief that everything should live, regardless of the pain and suffering it may endure.

To be honest, I found it fascinating. I'd have expected a horse to paw/kick something to death, I didn't realize that as a prey animal, they do appear to have knowledge of vulnerable spots resulting in death, as he clearly went for the spine/throat area. Very interesting to learn new things about animals!

While I agree with you to a point. that attitude when can be taken to far exspecially if applied to humans. yes I know that is not what you said or meant. And a horse should know where it's weakest spots are, it came protect them and attacks amother horse. it was a stallion that fights other stallions.
 
#27 ·
I find this very interesting. I am not revolted or sickened, but very surprised. I have never heard of a horse behaving that way -- biting and tossing as a dog would kill a rabbit, however if you think of two stallions fighting, teeth and necks are always involved. The stallion obviously saw this foal as a threat and dealt with it accordingly. Because of the lack of strength in the foal, it never had a chance of course and because of it's "deformity" the mare had already abandoned it as a lost cause.
 
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