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Old 06-26-2006, 11:46 AM
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have you heard of mares not taking to thier babys and refusing to do the dutys of mom.....
Yes... we almost lost a foal because of it. This is going to sound weird, but we had a goat on the farm that had just had her baby weaned and luckily she took to the filly. It saved her life...
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Old 06-26-2006, 11:48 AM
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Happens a lot...leads to the practice on some farms where they breed a cheap mare and kill the foal just so she's got milk for a more "expensive" foal!
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Old 06-26-2006, 11:51 AM
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Happens a lot...leads to the practice on some farms where they breed a cheap mare and kill the foal just so she's got milk for a more "expensive" foal!
Very sad. They often use a surrogate mare, but sometimes leasing the surrogate costs more than the foal.
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