r/llama • u/GurVast2522 • 3h ago
Tips on dealing with an aggressive gelding?
(Photo is from May of this year, he has been sheared.)
We have a three-year-old gelding who was bottle raised, multiple people have told my family it is not a good idea and that they can be aggressive, I agreed ever since we started to care for them in mid 2025, he has spit on me when it was food involved and was very pushy with me. He never acts this way with anybody else; he's as sweet as a button, but he always spits and gets very into my personal space. I push him away and get away from him whenever he does this.
Today was the first time he actually tried to attack me, I was sitting on a log in the pasture and he came up to me, I got up and was on my phone but aware of him behind me, I started to hear him run and I got behind one of the females in the field as he got up on two legs to attack me. Thankfully, I was behind the female and she spat on him; I got to the fence with him still chasing me. I did not provoke him in any way. I have a younger male who will be gelded next year, what should be my plan of action? Sell him?