Mares Foals And Foaling

From selecting a suitable stallion to foal handling, weaning and youngstock management, this is a practical guide to breeding for the first-time brood mare owner, or small breeder.

“Treatment of Mare in Foal and with Foal” is a classic guide to managing and caring for a mare before and after it gives birth to a foal. It deals with every aspect of this period, offering the reader guidance on how to properly calculate the event and successfully manage both mother and baby. Contents include: "Period of Foaling", "Beneficial Effects of Warm Weather", "Spring Grass", "Evil Effects of Catarrhal Affections", "Late Foals", "Preparations for Mares about to Foal", "Litter", "Water", "Anecdote", "Term of Gestation", "Attentions at the Time of Foaling", "Indications", "Assistance", "The Foal", "Treatment of Mare and Foal", "Precaution against Wet", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on breeding horses.

Now in a much-anticipated two-volume new edition, this gold-standard reference stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative text on equine reproduction. Serving theriogenologists, practitioners and breeders worldwide as a one-stop resource for the reproductive assessment and management of equine patients, Equine Reproduction, Second Edition provides detailed information on examination techniques, breeding procedures, pregnancy diagnosis and management, reproductive tract diseases and surgery, and foaling. A companion website offers hundreds of images from the book in color. For the Second Edition, the stallion, mare and foal sections have been thoroughly updated and revised to include the latest information on every subject. New topics include discussion of nutritional and behavioral factors in the broodmare and stallion, parentage testing, fetal sexing and the health and management of older foals, weanlings and yearlings. Additionally, this outstanding Second Edition features a new section on assisted reproductive techniques, including detailed information on artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, embryo transfer and technology.

A veterinarian draws on her twenty years of professional experiences to offer a wealth of information on the proper care of the breeding mare from mating, through gestation, to foaling and nursing as well as the care of the foal itself.