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We just clipped a couple of our colts yesterday. One of our colts was born looking like a sorrel pinto. Over the last couple of weeks, he started shedding out very dark around his eyes and his ears and we noticed that at the root of his hairs he looked very dark. After we clipped him, he has...

I am hand breeding all my mares that I want bred for 2012. I have hand bred mares before, but never so many, and I did not realize it could be almost as exhausting as foaliing season!! Anyway, I have some questions as each of my mares have behaved completely different! 1) Will some mares...

I am used to seeing foals jump up on their dam's backs, or any other horse/or foals in play, but one of our 1 month old colts will walk up to any of my mares that are in heat sniff around them for a minute, "drop", get an erection, mount the mare from the side, swing to her rear, and immediately...

I just had a mare lose her silver bay pinto colt at about 4:30 this morning due to dystocia/red bag. I had stayed up with her all night and was right there doing all I could do when she went into labor. By the time I got the little colt turned right so that he could be delivered, it was too...

One of my mares went into labor about 30 minutes ago. I had stayed out in the barn quietly waiting where she could not see me all night long. I was there and helping her during her labor, but could not save the little silver bay pinto colt. By the time I got the colt turned around, it was too...

This little leopard appaloosa colt was born this morning at about 12:45 am. His dam was registered as a palomino by her breeder, her sire was a chestnut leopard appaloosa, her dam a palomino and this mare has heavy appaloosa characteristics. This past summer, after she was bred for the first...

I have 2 stallions that will be breeding for the first time this season. One is 5 the other is 4 years old. They have been kept with some other stallions when not in breeding season and they have never acted as studly as the senior stallions. I am just wondering if they will even know what to...

I have had 4 foals so far this season and all 4 have been colts! 4 more to go, so whoever has been hogging the Filly Fairy, LET HER GO!!

I had another topic going about my mare who started leaking milk 2 nights ago and still hasn't foaled. Well, since she started leaking milk, I have not checked her milk with the test strips because why would I? I mean she is obviously about to foal, right? NOT!! We have been watching her...

One of my mares has had a full bag for over a month, has been testing ready to go with the milk test strips for a full month and has had dry drops of sticky milk on the ends of her teats for over 2 weeks. This evening she started leaking milk like a very fast leaky faucet. How long can this go...

Nevermind, I just pulled up a bunch of old topics and posts dealing with this and I cannot find a way to just delete this post. SORRY!!

I was at Tractor Supply about a week ago and came across some "Spot-On" fly,flea,gnat,mosquito, etc. Control like you use for Dogs and Cats. I did not know they made this for horses, too. I read the package info on a couple of brands they had, but could not find any warning for using it on...

Okay, Eagle started a thread on her mare, Brit, who is Rhino+? getting in foal unintentionally and Matt posted a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equine_herpesvirus_4 "Like other herpes viruses, EHV-4 causes a lifelong latent infection in affected animals." Does this mean a mare who aborted...

I feel really stupid for asking this question, but over the last few years of being on this forum, I have heard so many refer to how many fillies their mare has had. I cannot figure out whether they are just stating how many fillies the mare has had or they are giving credit to the mare for the...

We are finally putting the stalls in the lowest level our new barn this weekend and the tentative plan is (4) 12x12 stalls and (1) 12x18. A storage/tack room is going in on this level, too and there will be a 12x24 aisle down the middle. I could still change the arrangement if I need to, so...

Hi, I am trying to decide which of these 2 feeds to use for the last few months of my mares' pregnancies. Do you prefer one over the other and if so, why? Thank you so much for any input!

I have a couple of horses I might need to transport over 1000 miles. I know people ship horses by truck or even plane, but this makes me very nervous. Can you please share your shipping experience and advice with me? How expensive is it to ship a horse and is it safe? Thanks in advance for...

Could someone please advise or give an educated guess as to what color this 6 week colt could be? I have no idea how color genes work. His sire is a black leopard appaloosa and his dam is a blue roan appaloosa. I thought he would be a blue roan like his dam, but when I started clipping him...

I have a young beautiful stallion, about 4 years old, that I would like to breed one of my mares to this next spring. We have had him since he was a year old. I was checking him out the other day....does it matter if one of his testicles is only half the size of the other?

Just did a pregnancy test on one of my mares and could not tell at first whether there was a second line or I was seeing things. I looked at the test in several lights and took some pictures of it. There is definitely some pink there, but not very distinct. Is this a ghost line or is the...