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Neonatal maladjustment syndrome (NMS) is a syndrome where newborn foals exhibit uncommon behaviors, occurring in three to five percent of live births. These behaviors can include aimless wandering, hypersensitivity to loud sounds and brightness, weakness or coordination issues, and the incapability to nurse.
A foal at about weaning age. A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
A healthy, well-managed mare can produce a foal every year into her twenties, though not all breeders will breed a mare every year. In addition, many mares are kept for riding and so are not bred annually, as a mare in late pregnancy or nursing a foal is not able to perform at as athletic a standard as one who is neither pregnant nor lactating.
A.P. Indy sired his last foals in 2010, when only 36 of 80 mares he bred conceived. Of these, two would become grade 1 winners: Honor Code and Got Lucky, whose name refers to the multiple tries it took her dam to get in foal. [5] He was retired from stud duty on April 8, 2011, upon failing to produce a confirmed live foal in the 25 mares he ...
She produced seven foals between 2001 and 2008, one of which have met with much success in racing. [5] After failing to deliver a live foal for the next several years, she underwent a Caesarian section in 2013. The resulting foal, named Manitoulin, was raised by a nurse mare and went on to become a graded stakes winner. [6]
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La Troienne never received the title of Kentucky Broodmare of the Year as her best foals raced prior to the creation of the award in 1946. However, four of her female family descendants have been so honored: Striking (1961, a noted " blue hen " in her own right), Relaxing (1989, dam of Easy Goer ), Glowing Tribute (1993, dam of Sea Hero ), and ...
Besides logging, Mare Noi was also forcefully bred, and though we will never know the true extent of her abuse, it is finally her time to experience true freedom.On the 12th ... Is Finally Free Of ...