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I halter break mine within the first week of life. I play in their stall with them putting the halter on and off many times the first couple days. Then I pull the foal gently from side to side or back and forth with my hand on the halter so they learn to follow the feel of pulling. When I...

You can buy aloe vera juice at any walmart, walgreens, cvs or grocery store since it's manufactured for people. Its in the section with vitamins, health food bars or metamucils. Usually on a bottom shelf. It has to be refrigerated once opened.

Interesting, I have never heard of that. I reclipped her today and gave her another bath. She isn't itchy at all and there aren't any patchy skin spots. She has triple crown rice bran oil in her feed and gets tons more ALA omegas from the grass. Her vitamins/minerals are all at the right...

My little filly had to do that last year because her mom was painful. Lasted about 3 days. As long as we kept her comfy and did frequent wet meals she came thru it.

Stomach soother is great, but you can make your own, just better. All you have to do is cut up a papaya, remove skin n seeds n puree in blender or food processor. Then, you mix equal parts papaya puree and aloe vera juice. Just add to their feed. It's worked wonders for me and we use it in...

Congratulations on your beautiful herd! They are all so gorgeous in their own little ways. Good job to both you and Gracie! I can only hope my last two go as well. Beautiful babies

Here are a couple pictures. She's a silver color, so when she's clipped she looks silver but when she grows out it looks red. She was clipped in March. I bathed her and sprayed her with a fungacide spray but I just don't think that's what it is. She eats Triple Crown feed, gets plenty of...

I am so glad to hear that because I hated the thought of clipping so close and don't want to do it. The 15 was as short a clip I wanted to do. I will go take a pic today before I do what you suggest. She is very healthy and well fed so I don't think it's nutritional. We never ended up going...

I have a great mixture that worked beautifully on my mini mare that I learned about from Dr. Eleanor Kellon. Fly sprays and ingredients in things like swat do not affect the bugs that are bothering your horse. But, those bugs (midges, nosee ums, knats, etc.) are affected and particularly...

So giving the bath is accomplishing what? Are you guys saying it's some type of fungus maybe? Gosh, I hate to reclip her but it does look like pig hair. I used the 15 blade because that's a short as I wanted to go even though at the shows they use up to 30 on the bodies. That's crazy, I...

She's not wormy, I know that for sure

Ok, I clipped my yearling filly for a halter show and I did it with a size 15 blade, which I know isn't too short compared to what they use for shows. The problem is, I did that back in March and she still has half her coat missing and looks like she has mange because it's growing back...

Wow, can they get any cuter? You have a sweet little herd of babies and can't wait to see the next one!!

Oh CONGRATULATIONS!! :yes So happy for you guys and your filly is beautiful!!!

My mare looked like that for a couple days, I thought she would burst and we should see a leg sticking out or something. I tested her ph with pool strips and she was always above 8 until right before foaling, then she dropped to 6.2. The pool strips have been 100% for me so far. Oh, and my...

I guess I just never thought it took longer than a day to get that all out. I usually do enemas, but I only had an adult one on hand and that was too big. He seemed good today running around his pasture. His back legs are weak and wobbly, but that will get better I'm sure. They are just so...

Here are a couple more pics of Titus, he is friendly. You'll have to completely ignore me in the pics, I just wanted to show how sweet he is and I haven't gotten any sleep in a couple months now, lol. Oh, and I couldn't turn them around either which is going to make it hard for you to turn...

I totally agree with all of that!

Oh, the other lesson I learned from my dog chasing the foal is to never lead the foal and the mama out without leads on both of them. The little guys learn very fast how to walk on a lead, and all issues are then avoided with them running off and the dogs chasing. Sometimes the biggest problem...

Oh, I am so sorry you had to go through that. That exact thing happened to me with a large foal and a pit bull cross dog I had. I was walking the mother and 3 day old foal out and the foal decided to romp around and run. My dog played with him, but then the foal started running for real away...