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Reproduction and Foals
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Feeding the Mare and Foal After Weaning
Weaning is a stressful time for foals and mares. While mares are often ready to say good-bye to their rambunctious, rowdy charges, foals can be far more fretful.
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Plan Ahead to Avoid Weaning Woes
Separating a foal from its dam is guaranteed to produce
some anxiety in both animals. This is almost inevitably
followed by at least a brief slowdown in foal growth and
condition. Foals are also at a somewhat greater risk of disease and injury.
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Proper Nutrition for Broodmares, Foals and Weanlings
Producing strong, healthy, structurally correct foals is the goal of every horse breeder. To ensure that goal is met, nothing is more critical than providing excellent nutrition throughout every stage of growth and development.
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Preparation for Foaling
What to do prior to, during and after the big event.
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Nutritional Requirements of Broodmares
The nutritional status of mares is a critical component in foal health from the moment of conception and continues through weaning.
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Reducing the Risk of OCD in Weanlings and Yearlings
OCD (osteochondritis dissecans) is one of a number of diseases categorised under the name ‘developmental orthopaedic disease’ (DOD) and is a significant cause of wastage and loss of revenue for horse breeders, owners and trainers all over the world.
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Developmental Orthopaedic Disease of Growing Horses
Developmental Orthopaedic Disease (DOD) is the most significant problem facing the modern horse breeder. A serious case of DOD can be financially devastating, eventually leaving affected foals or yearlings essentially worthless due to crippling lameness.
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Feeding and Care of the Orphan Foal
At some point every breeding farm is faced with having to raise an orphan foal. A variety of options are available, and the course taken with an individual foal will depend upon a number of factors.
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Care of the Mare After Foaling
After foaling, fit and healthy mares get up fairly quickly and show concern for their foals. However, many mares are exhausted and can present problems for the foal.
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Common Queries Concerning Broodmare Problems
Every breeding season, new broodmare owners join the ranks of seasoned breeders and find difficulty coming to terms with all the complications, disappointments, expenses and frustrations of trying to successfully breed a mare to produce a foal.
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