Familiar mares can help reduce weaning stress
Familiar adult female horses can less the stress of weaning on foals.
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Informative articles on horse breeding and equine husbandry.
Pregnant mares more receptive to younger foals
Are foals short-changed by their mothers if they become become pregnant again shortly after giving birth?
Read moreScientists get to bottom of foal diarrhoea
A major switch in intestinal bacteria within the first two weeks of life appears to be directly responsible for diarrhoea
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Read moreFamily of rare ‘intersex’ horses discovered
Equine researchers at a Canadian university have identified a family group of horses with a rare genetic abnormality which means they are termed as ‘intersex’.
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Home pregnancy tester for horses breaks new ground
“Instead of having to spend $100 to $120 to have a vet pregnancy-test their mare, breeders can buy our test for just $30 and test their mare(s) themselves.”
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Tiny Caspian horse breed back from the brink
These finely built horses are now known, through DNA testing and other research, to be the forerunners of the native wild horses of Persia, and a key breed in the development of the Arabian horse by the Mesopotamians in the Third Millennium BC.
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Przewalski horse breed may soon thrive in the wild
The birth of a Przewalski foal at Toronto Zoo is another welcome step towards the ultimate dream: To have the primitive breed of horse restored to healthy numbers in the wilds of their native Mongolia and surrounding territories.
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