Bs_mum
Well-Known Member
We had a whoopsie with one of my mares & a stallion. Despite a vets visit- 11 months later she had a colt foal!
This foal is huge, at 5 months he’s bigger than my yearlings & catching up with mum fast. Problem is is that with the recent weather and I think the fact he is so big is that she’s starting to look poor. Not poor as in skin and bone, but she’s poorer than I would like her to be at this point. Ive has them both in the barn but she isn’t an “indoor†mare, she’s a stand-in-the-middle-of-the-field-in-a-hurricane mare & we lasted 2 hours before she’d jumped the 7 bar gate & the post and rail and back out with her friends- leaving her foal behind (he wasn’t bothered) I’ve tried to shut her in the big barn, but she paces up and down screaming continuously and won’t settle & if you opened the barn door to go in she will full pelt gallop At you and run you over (I tried- after 3 days I turned her back out)
She’s out with ad-lib hay and hard feed, rug-less despite the elements because of the boy- but im not sure it’s enough.
Foal is on grass/hay/hard feed. Spends most of his time with his “uncles†rather than Mum, and I very rarely see him feed from her.
I don’t want to take him away & cause him damage, but she’s not the best do-er and I’m concerned that if she goes too far I won’t get her back easily.
WWYD?
This foal is huge, at 5 months he’s bigger than my yearlings & catching up with mum fast. Problem is is that with the recent weather and I think the fact he is so big is that she’s starting to look poor. Not poor as in skin and bone, but she’s poorer than I would like her to be at this point. Ive has them both in the barn but she isn’t an “indoor†mare, she’s a stand-in-the-middle-of-the-field-in-a-hurricane mare & we lasted 2 hours before she’d jumped the 7 bar gate & the post and rail and back out with her friends- leaving her foal behind (he wasn’t bothered) I’ve tried to shut her in the big barn, but she paces up and down screaming continuously and won’t settle & if you opened the barn door to go in she will full pelt gallop At you and run you over (I tried- after 3 days I turned her back out)
She’s out with ad-lib hay and hard feed, rug-less despite the elements because of the boy- but im not sure it’s enough.
Foal is on grass/hay/hard feed. Spends most of his time with his “uncles†rather than Mum, and I very rarely see him feed from her.
I don’t want to take him away & cause him damage, but she’s not the best do-er and I’m concerned that if she goes too far I won’t get her back easily.
WWYD?