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Location: texas | ok, first time breeder here lol....
I am currently still exercising and working my mare, she is bred currently to Streaking Ta Fame (yay).... she is in tip top shape and the pregnancy has not slowed her down a bit.....
My question is regarding breeding back on the foal heat and riding? I was planning on starting her back to riding after a week or 2 of the baby being born, IF all goes well..... How soon is the "foal heat" after delivery? She is due in mid april 2016...
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Location: Kentucky | teamthompson - 2015-07-22 10:36 AM ok, first time breeder here lol.... I am currently still exercising and working my mare, she is bred currently to Streaking Ta Fame (yay).... she is in tip top shape and the pregnancy has not slowed her down a bit..... My question is regarding breeding back on the foal heat and riding? I was planning on starting her back to riding after a week or 2 of the baby being born, IF all goes well..... How soon is the "foal heat" after delivery? She is due in mid april 2016... Ok, thanks for the help and info.... Honestly, I let my broodies be broodies. I wouldn't start her back that quickly. Especially if she is a maiden and if she has any issues. I would just give her and baby plenty of turn out time and let her be a mama.
To answer your question, I bred my broodie back on her foal heat and she was bred 10 days after she foaled. Here is a good article for you on foal heat. Good luck! http://americashorsedaily.com/horse-breeding-on-foal-heat/#.Va-rIPlVhBc
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Location: texas | ok thank you, will read it |
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| Honestly, it takes a week before most maidens are even comfortable not being ON their baby 24/7. Maiden mares tend to be very clingy and I've found them to be more protective. So if you try to do too much with them, you could seriously stress out your mare and your baby. I think broodmares should be broodmares. If you want to breed, then breed. If you want to race, then race. Don't mix the two on one horse.
Foal heat can vary in mares, I'd say average is a week. |
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Location: Washington | I'm going to third the "let her be a mom". We had a maiden mare foal this year and it was close to a month before she wouldn't panic if he left her side. VERY well mannered mare just about ran me over a few times in her panics.
I've also heard working while nursing reduces the amount of milk they produce.
Breeding back on foal heats, with AI anyway, your chances are very slim, about a 30% chance. I think our mare had her foal heat at about 10 days. We are waiting until next year to rebreed as she foaled late May and didn't want to put the money into a foal that would be born any later. |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | Young foals are also easily stressed. They shoud NOT have "forced" exercise. Which is what would happen if you are working the mare. That baby IS going to try to stay at her side, and likely get overly tired and/or stressed out. It 's hard enough to keep them healthy and in one piece WITHOUT adding the added chance for illness or injury if you are riding/working the mare too. |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | I agree with the others so far. I bred the mare I rode when I was a kid. I don't think I started her back riding that soon. I think it was more like 6 weeks or so. I don't remember. But, I wouldn't do it ever again knowing what I know now. Even mares that have been there and done that and have had 4645165461651 babies are really clingy with their babies the first month or so. The mare I rode with a baby by her side was a wreck except while she was on course, then she was all about her kid. The next mare I tried to do that with, couldn't concentrate AT ALL. I let her be a mom or I rode her but not at the same time. It's very stressful for the baby too. Just a mess.
Foal heat breeding is a totally different subject. It's the worst cycle to get a pregnancy on and so many things have to be right to get a conception that stays in the mare to term. I only breed on the foal heat if the mare is late in the year, she had a NORMAL delivery with little to no drainage and she doesn't ovulate before day 9. Even if everything looks good she may not conceive and keep it. I usually short cycle them instead. |
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