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I have searched but couldn't find the specific answer. I know there maybe different answers but, on the average, how long do you seperate weanlings before its ok for them to be back with mom and they won't nurse? Or is it ever?

Thanks in advance.
 
I have a weanling filly that is back with her dam after being weaned for about a month. They are doing great together.
 
my vet told me 6 to 8 weeks, If the weaning gets to nurse at all he will start her milk up again.
 
Well..we usually leave them in the weaning paddock over the winter and they can go back in spring..
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I never turn my weanling's back with Mama. They stay out of the broodmare herd until they are ready to join in their own right, at three, usually. This year I have a yearling running with them and so far it is OK, but I shall watch to make sure she neither gets bullied nor bullies. Chances are I shall be showing her again next year so she will come out long before anyone foals.
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We've never had much luck with them not going back to try to nurse before 2/3 months after being seperated so we wean in the fall and then they go back in the late spring just before we open the gates to the pasture.
 
4-6 weeks seems to be a good avg for me. I always put my babies back in with the herd for the winter. I just think they still have to much to learn thru the social rules of an adult and baby mixed herd.

I also find if the mare is bred back it tends to go a bit easier.. i just put them out watch for a few min you can tell usually within 15 min or so if mom is going ot let that baby suck again or not if so then the round up begins LOL and we try again in a couple of weeks.
 
When I weaned my now 8 year old mare from her dam, they were only seperated for about 2 months, but there were also extenuating circumstances. I was at a boarding facility, they had an empty pen when I first started the weaning process, but then they got a new boarder with a new weanling; that weanling had no manners and was spoiled rotten, and she ran my filly through the fence. So, as soon as Hayley was 2 months past weanling, she went back in with her dam and my gelding; she was always independent and mom didn't have much milk in the first place, so she never did try to nurse on her mom after we put them back together. The last two I weaned, were fine. I pulled the colt's dam out of the foal pasture and left the colt in with the other mare and foal; when the filly was ready to wean, I pulled her dam out of the pasture; there was little to no screaming or worrying. I sold the one mare and the other wasn't pastured with her daughter again until this summer (filly is 2), just happened to have an extra pasture, so kept the youngsters seperate from the other horses to be able to give them more/different feed than the adult horses.
 
After reading these posts I can see its a toss up. Guess it depends of the mare and foal. I have had three weanlings off their moms for better than two months; I have tried putting them back in with the herd three times. I have one mare who was a maiden and she won't let her filly nurse then there are two other mares that just welcome their fillies back to the milk bar. All three mares are bred back. Its frustrating for me because I love to see them all running together. Oh well, it just takes time and patience. I'm sure that before it gets too cold I can have them all running together.
 
Ours never go back until the winter of there yearling year.

We have very good mommys and would let them nurse again even after a few months. We even have mares that scream when other foals who are not theres are weaned.
 
Well my now 6 1/2 mnth filly has been out with her mom at least 2 times since I weaned her about 2 months ago. She spent the day with MOM in a paddock ( i was turning her out and MOM snuck in the gate before I could close it so I just watched a min and they where fine - baby didnt try to nurse at all and was so HAPPY to see MOM. Baby is easy to catch and doesnt mind being in a pen alone she shares a fence line with MOM but if I still have her next spring she too will be turned back out with all the horses.

I think that as babies they still have alot of "Manners" left to learn and if I had other babies( I only have this one) they would all go out in the same pen for the winter to get them !
 

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