How many foals do horses give birth to at a time?

Answer 1

At best, a mare can have a foal every from age three to age 25, so about 22. Only the very best producers will have more than about ten.
Male horses become sexually mature at around two years of age, and are able to produce a virtually unlimited number of foals. In a wild herd situation, a young stallion usually establishes a harem of mares for the first time when he is 4-5 years old, and is able to maintain a harem until he is about 12-15. Depending on how strong he is, and how well he competes with other stallions, the harem may number between 3 and 30 mares. He will father a foal with most of these mares yearly.

In a domestic situation, where humans control which mares a stallion mates with, the answer varies hugely. He may have no foals at all (if he is not wanted for breeding he will usually be gelded) or he may have hundreds or even thousands - a stallion can mate up to three times a day without losing condition, and modern reproductive technology is able to extend semen so that up to 6 mares can be bred from one ejaculation.

A mare becomes sexually mature at around 3 years of age, but a responsible breeder will not put her in foal until her bones have stopped growing at 5-7 years depending on her breed. Her pregnancies each last a little more than 11 months, and she can be bred again as little as two weeks after foaling. Therefore, she can produce up to one foal a year, and depending on her health, may continue to have foals until she is around 25. Theoretically, therefore, a mare bred every year from the time she is mature until she is too old to breed could have almost 20 foals.
Normally only one a year... though twins do happen occasionally.

A horse can have up to 2 foals, however, twins are very rare-1 in 10,000 and 80% of those die. So live twins are very, very rare.
A healthy, well-managed mare can produce a foal every year into her twenties.

Answer 2

Depending on the horse, she may have twins but it isn't as likely and if she is pregnant with twins there would be a good chance that both would not survive. If the horse had one baby in January and was bred immediatly, It would be possible for a mare to birth 2 times in a year. And IF the mare had twins both times, a mare could have 4 foals in a year, however, the chances of this are next to impossible, and most mares only have 1 foal per year.

Answer 3

A mare typically gives birth to only one foal. Twins are rare, often unrecommended for most mares regardless of breeding due to the fact that it is dangerous for both the dam and her young. Usually a mare cannot give birth to twins without a high risk of having one or both and/or the mare herself perishing from a difficult birth.

It has happened no more than 5 times in the world that a mare has had triplets, and none of them ended happily.

Answer 4

One, and if she has more then the mare will generally only take care of one and abandon the other.

Answer 5

They can have up to two during one pregnacy. Twins are very rare though and most of the time either one or both of the foals don't make it. Mares usually give birth to one foal though.

Answer 6

Up to two.