breeding question

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

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...

[somerfrost]

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!

Originally Posted by somerfrost

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.