Weaning time

[Eq-rvt-vts]

And now peace reigns.

 

[MaryFlora]

That sounds easier on everyone! It’s great to have horsey friends!

Pretty horses and they do look content. Peace is excellent.

Love the stall, it looks amazing!

 

[Standards Equine]

I sent my little mare to a friend’s place for weaning, and got her filly a weaning mate from another friend. Now we’re killing two birds with one stone.

I really like that technique too. For us, we never breed for just a single foal. When it's weaning time, we simply close a gate between two pens where mares can come to the fence and nurse their foal if they want to, or they can ignore them. We leave them like that for about a month and then the mares go out in the mare herd or down to pasture, away from the foals. They have buddies, the mares are in their social environment and all goes smoothly.