HORSES

Prepare the Mare &Stallion For Early Breeding

• Breeding season depends on many things
• Break it down into getting new stallions introduced into the breeding routine.
• Experienced stallions just need a refresher course.

Prepare the Mare &Stallion For Early Breeding

• It is important to remember the basic health of the stallion
• Collect the stallion's semen and evaluate it.
• Keep your mare and stallion healthy both in terms of general conditioning and reproduvtively, vacinated.
• Cycling before she is to be bred.

When The mare should be mated to the stallion

• Decide when you want the foal to arrive
• Pregancies last 11 months so when you want the foal to be born depends on when you breed the mare.
• If you want a racing foal, you will want to breed your mare in Febuary or March, because you will want an early foal.

WHEN THE MARE SHOULD BE MATED TO THE STALLION

• If you are not under pressure, late May through mid- July would be the best idea.
• Herd stallions are seldom interested in mating with their own female offspring and seldom to tolerate those females mating with other stallions
• It is often necessary for both male females and males to leave the herd after leaving sexual maturity.

Challenges in horse breeding

• Financial- land, stables, equipment, feed and horses.
• physical
• emotional
• lots of work
• long term

CHALLENGES IN HORSE BREEDING

• Diseases in horses
• Constant questioning, "What could happen during foaling?"
• How should a newborn foal behave and develop?

Citations

• "When Should You Breed Your Mare?" What Time of Year Do I Breed? Web. 18 Feb. 2016. .
• "Preparing Stallions for the Breeding Season | Horsetalk - Breeding, Genetics and Equine Reproduction Information and Articles." Preparing Stallions for the Breeding Season | Horsetalk - Breeding, Genetics and Equine Reproduction Information and Articles. Web. 18 Feb. 2016. .