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I usually turn her out in a paddock with a paint gelding. I will stop leaving them together in case she foals and he hurts the foal. How large a paddock would you build for a mare and foal?

Is it possible that a mare will foal with no signs of foaling? I have read that she will sink in on the sides, belly drop closer to the ground, wax up teats, ect........... but if mares don't follow the rules, is it possible that all those signs can happen really fast? and you go to bed seeing...

So, The whole thing is a mystery, lol When Should I have her stall ready for a foal? With the udder development that I showed in the pictures, Should I have her bedded down now, thinking it could be anytime in the next ............ year?

so your mare's udder is more developed than mine.. maybe at least that is the way I would evaluate the pictures. .....wouldn't 342 days be full term?

the hay i feed is timothy mostly, I have been bedding her with shavings, but I don't know when to switch to hay or straw. I would guess she has a few or several weeks to go. I know for sure that I sold the stallion on August 3 last year, so i figure she has to foal before july 3. That gives...

Tonight, while she is eating, I can see the foal kicking. I assume that is what I am am seeing. Every once in a while there is like a *** in her side, that moves her whole side, then stops, then in a bit it happens again.

I am predicting that she will foal in June maybe.

I am picking up a bag of "mare and foal" ration from Purina tomorrow, and I am going to start giving her a little bit each day. I will try to get some udder pictures, but I can actually see it now when she is walking away from me and twitching her tail. I couldn't see anything before. It is...

I have just been feeding her good hay. no grain.

These pictures were taken while heavy shedding and playing in the mud was the order of the day. I think I have brushed feed bags full of hair out of her since then.

It my mare is starting to udder up, should I be feeding her a mare and foal ration?

After spending a couple of hours trying to post pictures, there will be no pictures. Bu, I brushed he out hits afternoon, and after I let her loose, she went off and rolled. gave me a good look at her udder, and it definitely larger than usual.

My pictures are too big to upload. I guess I wil just have to wait.

I bought a miniature mare and a stallion......... let them run together the summer before last, expected a foal in July of 2017, that never came. I had kept the mare and stud separate in case they might fight and hurt the foal..... By the middle of June I was afraid she wasn't bred, and...

Does anyone keep their minis in group pens or stalls? I know that cattle can be kept in loose housing of in a freestall, where they have stalls for sleeping and an area for standing and then a feed rack..... does anyone have a set up like that for their horses? I have seen some housing...

Update. So I left the stud out with the mare on her last heat, but he didn't even seem interested. I tried hand mating, that seemed even less interesting to him. I ended up just leaving them be. I determined that if she returned to heat in 21 days I would wait until spring and try again. He...

He is not that experienced I don't think.. He is three. The previous own does have a foal after him though.

I usually put them in the barn at night, in separate stalls because of predators..... so I should do that this week?

I should mark down today's date though right? cause if he doesn't breed her she will be in heat again 3 weeks from today? And if she doesn't she if probably bred? Once he figures it's time to breed will he breed enough times a day that I will probably catch them?

Okie Dokie, I guess he doesn't want to get his motor running just to get turned down.