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Signs of a Healthy Foal
Chances are your foal will sail through the baby stage with flying colors. Especially if it's normal at birth and good management practices are in place at your farm. However, even under the best cir...
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Feeding Foals During Weaning and Post Weaning – An Important Time Period for an Equine Athlete
Properly preparing the foals to be weaned can make the process much easier for everyone! Keep in mind that weaning can be a high stress period for the foal. With that in mind, other high stress events...
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Milk Replacer for Foals
A friend recently called, asking if I had bottles for foals. She explained that her mare had rejected her foal, and the said they were going to have to start feeding milk replacer. I then asked my fri...
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Feeding and Managing Pregnant Mares: Prenatal Nutrition
Many broodmares are in the last half of gestation at this time. The latter part of gestation is one of the most important development periods in the life of a foal when the foal is developing in the u...
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Will Too Much Protein Cause Developmental Disorders in my Growing Horse?
Protein is a very important part of every horse’s diet. Horses of all ages, developmental stages, activity levels, and reproductive status have essential amino acid requirements, amino acids bei...
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Feeding Weanlings
You have followed your preferred method for weaning foals and you have followed the directions below: You made certain that the foals were consuming at least 1 pound of a feed per month of age of a fe...
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Inside the Broodmare’s Belly…
Lactation demands a lot from a broodmare! Are you anxiously awaiting that first foal of the spring? Do you have the foaling stall ready, the vet on speed dial, and the video camera on the battery char...
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Feeding Broodmares
During a mare’s pregnancy, significant changes occur that cause her nutritional needs to increase substantially. While bred mares can be fed a quality maintenance diet during the first half of t...
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Creep Feeding Foals
Newborn Foal, Ella takes in the world next to mom, Serena When was the last time you picked a mare out for breeding based solely on the fact that she was a good milker? If you are like most horse owne...
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Feeding the Broodmare During Lactation
Ferris with mom Rosie – foals exhibit the most entertaining behaviors…. Proper nutrition for the broodmare during lactation is essential to make certain that she produces adequate milk for...
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Feeding Foals
Similar to human babies, the nutrition and care a foal receives in the "baby" stage can have an effect on its whole life, including soundness and development issues that may not become obvious until y...
