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Ensuring the Health of Your Expectant Mare Your mare should go into the breeding season fit and perhaps gaining weight. Severely underweight mares will have more trouble conceiving than will mares of appropriate weight. You should make sure your mare avoids stress as much as possible. Stress can cause a drop in progesterone, a hormone [...]
Equine Infectious Anemia Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) is a potentially fatal disease that threatens the horse, donkey and mule populations. The virus that causes EIA reproduces in the white blood cells that circulate throughout the horse’s body. The horse’s immune system, via antibodies, may attack and destroy red blood cells, leading to anemia. Infected horses [...]
Safe Delivery for Foaling Mares Your equine mare has made it through 11 months of pregnancy. Equine labor and delivery is generally uneventful. Horse mares seem to prefer to foal at night in privacy, and apparently have some control over their foal’s delivery. Most mares foal without difficulty, it is usually best to allow your [...]
Horse Castration and your Colt Equine castration is performed on colts to make them easier to handle. When your horse has minimal breeding value, the procedure usually takes place once your horse is skeletally mature.
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