So your mare's not in foal... What now?

This horses/sheep theory puzzles me....is having 'flocks' of horses a good sign or a bad sign??? For example, in Europe, at say PSI, they have dozens of stallions represented and god knows how many mares. If having horses in flock numbers is a bad thing, does that mean people should not use the likes of PS or Z or any of the large scale European studs because of this?????

In the case of your personal experience, does the stud name begin with L?
 
Eventrider23,

your first paragraph, certainly not! But then I honestly don't know the answer. We are fortunate, in that we have 1000 acres of grass at our disposal, but there is no question, in my mind, that when any form of livestock are kept under cramped conditions, then the daily maintenance of the individual animal, is going to be just that much more difficult, and detailed. With horses we accept the situation, but not with sheep!

Paragraph 2? I coudn't possibly comment !
 
Hi AndyPandy,

This might sound crazy to you as it is not scientifically based, but my father in law has had stallions, has been breeding for 40 years, and has about 30 mares. Crazy trying to keep track of all of them but he writes everything into a diary.

Anyway, what he has always said, is that mares are more fertile when the weather is good, and i've seen first hand, on a particular month, if it has been raining all month, most of the mares don't go in foal, but if it's sunny, the mares go in foal first time.

Do you think it has any logic, or is it just coindcedence.
 
Hi this is my first post so sorry if it isnt done right, I am a bit of a technophobe! I have a mare that I am putting in foal for the first time this year, a lot of planning has gone into it as she was my competition horse who suffered an injury in July last year, with time spent trying to fix her and then accepting that she was done in her career it was too late to breed from her last year.
So i have in place the stallion, yard, vet etc but I am just wondering what is too early to put her in because as you can imagine I am chomping at the bit haha. I have had foals before but never AI I have done quite a bit of breeding of Welshies and am eagerly awaiting the birth of a much anticipated Section D foal this year so im just generally wondering about the whole AI process. Very sorry to waffle on but everyone seems very knowledgeable here. Thanks!
 
Mare went for 16 day scan and not in foal,we assumed she would then come back into season 5 or so days later but after 17 days now she is still out,does this happen normally.
 
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