Liberty farm mare about to foal!

Been watching the Liberty Farm foaling cam for a day and a half on and off now. Just missed yesterday's foal being born.

But blimey, it looks like a factory farm, the more I look the more I worry about the mares and foals. Yesterday's boxwalker, when she started again after foaling, was pushing the foal all over the place. It's not really surprising there are so many mares with vices, they have no stimulation at all. I'm presuming they are fed on "complete" feed as there is no evidence of forage feed. They must be bored out of their brains, poor things.

Just my thoughts. Should stop popping in really.:(
 
Do these poor mares ever have anything to eat??? I feel so sad for the poor mare on there today just standing at the door with her head going around and around..this just doesn't look a good system to me...
 
The impression I got is that this is a foaling-down quarter horse station so people send their mares there to foal out. It's highly possible that most of these horses either normally live out 24/7 or are AQHA racers in which case they're usually quite wound-up horses at the best of times. I also wondered about the feeding but again from what I can see the stables all have hay bars which are filled up from outside and have a feeder type thing inside the stable.
 
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