CavaloBranco
Well-Known Member
I know nothing about breeding but I just wanted to say...OP has kept her cool through some very judgmental posts!! We don't need to be quite so high and mighty surely??
I know nothing about breeding but I just wanted to say...OP has kept her cool through some very judgmental posts!! We don't need to be quite so high and mighty surely??
If it was possible to just look at a picture of a mare and tell if she is in foal then that would be great. I would not need to pay my vets to scan my brood mares. I have far too much respect for my vets to ask them to scan in a field. Nor would ask a farrier to trim/shoe in a field. It is our responsibility as horse owners to provide suitable facilities to maximise safety for these professionals. Horses and ponies are unpredictable and are flight animals and we should take that on board and keep them where there are suitable facilities to handle them safely in all circumstances.
I don't think anyone was being high and mighty - just pointing out that it doesn't look like a very suitable set up for a foal. OP had asked for her thoughts on the pictures, and people have given them.
I have no direct experience of foals so would only be an amateur guess, but I go for fat - but that is just an amateur perspective.
I don't think anyone has suggested people need top of the range facilities. They have only suggested people need safe facilities for what they are keeping within them and that mitigating the arrival of any additions for which they would not be safe would be a good idea.
You used to be able to edit posts for only 10 minutes after posting, that is much extended with the new forum to I think an hour.
I disagree politely but if I had a donkey with mares for many years it would not occur to me that one day he may cover one of them. I know of several pony studs that have deemed a stallion infertile so tuned it out with an old mare and for the said mare to foal several years later so its not unheard ofI'm not sure I'd call it unplanned or unexpected if I kept a sexually mature donkey stallion with a pony mare all last year.
I disagree politely but if I had a donkey with mares for many years it would not occur to me that one day he may cover one of them. I know of several pony studs that have deemed a stallion infertile so tuned it out with an old mare and for the said mare to foal several years later so its not unheard of
OP ……. as the saying goes. There is no cure for stupidity!
OP ……. as the saying goes. There is no cure for stupidity!