bicornuate uterus. The mare has a bicornuate uterus, consisting of a large body and two divergent horns. The uterine body and horns are approximately equal length. The uterus is located within the abdominal cavity, dorsal to the intestines. The uterus is attached to the dorsal body wall via the mesometrium. Read more…
Caciocavallo [ˌkatʃokaˈvallo] is a type of stretched-curd cheese made out of sheep’s or cow’s milk. It is produced throughout Southern Italy, particularly in the Apennine Mountains and in the Gargano peninsula. Why is caciocavallo Called horse cheese? The name (which translates as horse cheese) derives from the fact that these Read more…
Foal should stand and nurse within two hours of birth. If the foal has not nursed within 3 hours, call your veterinarian. The foal may be weak and in need of assistance or medical attention. Foal should pass meconium (the first sticky, dark stool) within 12 hours after birth. What Read more…
Preweaning Care. In free-roaming or feral horses, foals are naturally weaned around eight to nine months of age, while most management systems will wean foals between 4 months and 6 months of age. Foals will spend the first 4 months to 5 months by their dam’s side, receiving nutrition from Read more…
A suckling foal will consume as much as 30 pounds of milk in a 24-hour pe- riod. Foals can consume up to 25 percent of their body weight per day of a dilute milk replacer without risk of diarrhea. For example a 100-pound foal could consume 25 pounds of milk Read more…
It’s an emergency if: the foal has not stood within two hours and nursed within three to five hours. Failure to do these things may indicate a problem that requires urgent medical care. And time is critical because he needs to ingest colostrum within the first six to eight hours Read more…
Newborn foals may nurse as often as ten times an hour in their first day of life. These frequent meals are vital to the foal’s health, because the foal ingests colostrum rather than milk for the first 12 to 24 hours following birth. Do baby horses drink milk from their Read more…
Ideally a foal should receive 250-300 ml of colostrum every one to two hours for the first six hours after birth. If failure of passive transfer is diagnosed in the first 6 to 12 hours after birth, colostrum is often bottle fed or administered via stomach tube by a veterinarian. Read more…
Foals drink water less frequently than adults, and their drinking bouts are shorter. The duration has been measured at around a half a minute in foals, while an adult can drink as long as one minute. Do baby horses need water? A research study of mares and foals on pasture Read more…
pale yellow. A mare’s first milk (colostrum) has a thick sticky consistency and is tan to pale yellow in color. The foal usually ingests all of this colostrum in the first hours of life. After that, a mare’s milk is white. What does colostrum look like in a horse? Colostrum Read more…