Foaling
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Getting ready for your mare to foal: useful advice for first-time breeders
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Joy as superstar grey mare who ‘can do no wrong’ delivers first foal
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‘It aged me 10 years!’ First for experienced breeder as mare gives birth on verge while en route home
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Remarkable vet stories: ‘It’s incredibly rare and goes against everything I’ve experienced’
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‘Pioneering’ adaption of lamb feeding system benefits orphan foals
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Mare recovers from grass sickness to give birth to ‘miracle’ foal
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‘She never gave up on her foal’: Suffolk mare and filly thriving after complicated birth
Welcoming a filly had been “extra special”, and the foal is the farm’s first for seven years. The farm has five Suffolk mares and is embarking on a breeding programme in the hope of boosting the rare breed’s numbers
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How a squeeze can save a dummy foal’s life
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‘This tiny scrap of life blinked at me’: 15kg foal who beat the odds is thriving three years on
“She wanted to live, at no point did I ever get the feeling she had had enough so I made the decision to go on the journey and see where we ended up, taking one day at a time”
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Joy from sadness: mare adopts late fieldmate’s foal to raise alongside her own
All three have bonded and both foals are doing ‘very well’
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The risks of twin foals
Twins remain a rarity in the horse world — with good reason, as Andrea Oakes discovers
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Rare sight as ‘close friend’ broodmares foal down next to each other
‘It was a lovely sight when both mares started foaling one after the other’
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‘I remember screaming down the phone to the vet ‘I have three legs’’ — how surprise twins gave a mare owner a ‘terrifying’ ordeal
When Belgian showjumper and breeder Anne-Liza Makkinga’s foaling alarm went off one day in May, she was unaware her mare Cacharelle’s birth would quickly turned into a “terrifying” ordeal
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‘Cheeky’ Connemara twin foals make surprise arrival
‘It was like she wondered where the second foal had come from but she took to them straight away’
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Owner hopes difficult experience with orphan foal can help others
‘It was heartbreaking, in my head it didn’t make sense – I thought ‘why can’t you love this baby’ but they just know it’s not theirs’
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The Orphan Foal: A Practical Guide — a must-read for anyone breeding horses professionally or for pleasure
Time is of the essence when things go wrong and this book will be a valuable guide to anyone involved in breeding horses, whether professionally or for pleasure
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When you need a foster mare: ‘It was the worst few days of my life’ — the emergency, heartbreak, healing and future
Read this true story and find out what happens when an owner tragically finds themselves in a position where they require a foster mare for their foal
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Heartbroken owner’s rug warning after newborn filly’s death
The owner is now offering her mare as a foster mother to an orphaned foal
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'This is not a shape I’m familiar with': when a foal makes an unexpected appearance
When Vicki Chiverton bought a mare at the beginning of the year with the aim of doing the Wobbleberry Challenge, she got a little more than she bargained for, says Jo Prestwich
