Mare & Foal Care Archives

Fetus Sexing in Horses

Determining the Sex of the Mare’s Foal By: Melissa Sykes – The mare, heavy in foal, enters the sales ring. [...]

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Development of a Healthy Foal: Part 3

By: Nicole Salo Part 3 or 3 – In the third part of this series on Development of a Healthy [...]

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Development of a Healthy Foal: Part 2

By: Nicole Salo Part 2 of 3 – In the second part of this series on Development of a Healthy [...]

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Development of a Healthy Foal: Part 1

By: Nicole Salo Part 1 of 3 – In the first part of this series on Development of a Healthy [...]

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A Viable Pregnancy: Part 2

By: Nicole Salo Part 2 of 2 – Second part follow up to A Viable Pregnancy; where we looked at [...]

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A Viable Pregnancy: Part 1

By: Nicole Salo Part 1 of 2 – Producing a healthy, lively foal is a task for the non-faint of [...]

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Preparing for a Healthy Foal: Foal Care

Dr. Kim Sprayberry offers special insight from the often-hectic front lines of one of the world’s busiest equine intensive care [...]

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Development of a Foal: The Mare and Stallion Can Help!

The foal’s parents have an important role to play in the development and training of the foal. Often, the foal [...]

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Tips for Preparing a New Foal for Training

Just as trainers have to get to know a new foal, so too does the foal have to get to [...]

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Stocking the Foaling Kit

By: Melissa Sykes I was up in Ocala to check on my new foal last week. While I was there, [...]

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