
When we choose to breed horses responsibly, there are many traditional practices that can be questioned.
Keeping a stallion segregated from all horses can lead to major problems, especially when it comes to serving mares.
Gelding a colt is often done between 1 and 2 years of age, but is this the best time?
Handling stallions, serving mares, weaning and gelding can all be done with a more natural approach. Find out how below.
Raising an orphan or rejected foal? Get some help and tips here.
Follow the progress of a foal from birth to yearling here.
Breeding Articles
A Reader’s Experience with her mare’s rejection of her foal - by Lindi My mare Zena rejected her foal, Jazira, two years ago and was extremely violent towards her. She was a maiden mare and foaled very quickly and wandered off before the foal could get up. Needless to say, she had foaled unexpectedly in the middle of the day whilst I made a quick visit …
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Orphan Foals - By Cynthia Cooper The dream of breeding and raising your own foal can very quickly become shattered when you are faced with an orphan foal. Whether the foal is orphaned through the mare’s death or rejection by the mare, the focus must be on keeping that foal alive for the first week or so, and …




what is the ideal mating ratio or stallion to mare ratio under natural breeding method? Thanks.
I always look to nature for answers to ideals like this, and from what I see, stallions usually have from 1 to 6 mares and their offspring in their harem.
So I’d use this as a good guide – however, a stallion without competition from other stallions could probably cope with more mares in a domestic situation because he’s not expending energy protecting them.
I hope that helps. Cheers, Cynthia.
Hello, what books do you recommend for preparing for my mares birth? Thank you!
Hi Destenee,
I’ve found the Foaling Primer by Cynthia McFarland to be a good guide. https://g.co/kgs/7Pe4Md
This one also looks to be excellent and has good reviews:https://g.co/kgs/dekzbJ – The Complete Foaling Manual.
I hope that helps. Cheers, Cynthia.