Maiden mare 235 days, pics.

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Took afew very quick pics on my phone this morning, once id turned her out. Im a first time breeder, and i just hope she is looking ok? She is still abit ribby but i think shes improved loads since she arrived. (Some will recall my previous posts)

Can you let me know what you guys think?
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Thanks
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Shes on two feeds a day of sugar beet, calm and condition, alfa a oil, and bBaileys stud balancer.
She is now 4 years, but was poorly treated before coming too us. The first pics is from before she came, the second is afew months ago.
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Think she might have lost abit of weight since then tho. What do you suggest?
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Thanks, the shocking picture of her was taken whilst with her previous owner before coming too me she had started too put the weight on.

I will get ther onto stud mix/ cubes- which would be best? Do i continue with all the other feed aswell? Just dont want too feed her too much, as ive read it can cause harm to foal if mares over fed?
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Both her parents are grade A, with toulon, Made in Avallon her grandsire.
Saint Alizee, is daddy he's a young stallion by Arturo 8, Broadstone Ladies man grandsire. He graded afew weeks ago.
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TBH it was an snap decision to cover her, as it was so late in the year, so when she took it was a bonus. She needed the time off before starting work. So we've lunged, long reined, sat on and now left her till after the foals weaned.
 
I'd ring Baileys.

No you wouldn't feed her the other stuff alongside, apart from a chaff perhaps (Alfa) and Sugar beat.

I wouldn't worry about feeding her too much - as it's more of a problem for a fat horse.
 
Just feed little and often in order to maximise the intake of the feed into her system rather than her passing it straight through. There is no difference (except cost) between stud mix or cubes just depends on what you like feeding and what the mare eats better. Try putting her on haylage as opposed to hay as this is more nutrient dense than hay. That way you also don't need to increase the amount your feeding as her stomach won't be able to take too much quantity on board. My mare has already started to reduce the amount of hay she eats at night as she can't fit it in with foal there!!

Congratulations on getting her to the condition she's in now, I hope the previous owners were held responsible for her poor weight?
 
Thanks, will ring them.

Shes on really good haylage, she has a large net full.
Will post a progress report next week, or week after. You can all check im looking after her!!
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I do love this forum tho, really puts my mind at ease, esp because i new too this breeding lark! So ta very much guys!
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I think her weight gain has been tremendous. You don't want to go onto too rich a feed too soon. I would be tempted to keep her gaining weight slightly slower than she is if that is how much she gained in 2 months...... after all the mare feeds the foal first.
 
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I think her weight gain has been tremendous. You don't want to go onto too rich a feed too soon. I would be tempted to keep her gaining weight slightly slower than she is if that is how much she gained in 2 months...... after all the mare feeds the foal first.

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She's in the last 3 months of her pregnancy - so i'd go with pile it in personally....
 
wow look at moma to be!! she is looking good, im glad she went to you after her horrible time, i should have realised the person she went to was shy on the feeding side as my colt was in poor condition too. glad she is doing good, well done you. keep us posted.
 
Hi, as this mares previous owner i would just like to clear a few things up. She was neglected by the previous owners to us, we were given her by a saddlebred breeder in kendal, cumbria in payment of an unpaid livery bill in April 08, according to our vet if we hadn't taken her she would have been dead in a few weeks! While she was with us she came round massively and put on a lot of weight (we only had her 4 months then sold her to her current owners) some people on here seem to be insinuating that she had been starved by us when infact we saved this little mares life! if someone would be so kind as to tell me how to post a picture i will post before and after pics while she was with us.
 
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i should have realised the person she went to was shy on the feeding side as my colt was in poor condition too.


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Explain ???
 
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Is this the mare you told me about Keoffee? If so she is not the only skinny from that place!

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wow look at moma to be!! she is looking good, im glad she went to you after her horrible time, i should have realised the person she went to was shy on the feeding side as my colt was in poor condition too. glad she is doing good, well done you. keep us posted.

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I think i understand now! I thought you were saying you got a skinny colt from us which i couldn't understand, did you used to own her too before she went to Kendal?
 
think i understand now, i thought people were making out i have sold underweight horses which i couldn't understand but now i realise did you (Keoffee) used to own her before she went to Kendal?
 
i bought my colt from the same person you got your stallion from, sorry for some confusion as i was not referring to you. as you know my colt was not in amazing condition but i didnt think anything of it as he was 2yrs and standing 16.1hh. when you sent pictures of soph to me i was horified and regretted swapping sophia for my colt to the said saddlebred breeder in kendal. its a lesson learnt and at least we now have well food horses to talk about. concrats on your stallion grading too
 
sorry for the confusion!!!!!!!tend to forget she did have am amazing home in between too!! sorry saint alize you did a great job too.
 
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