Foals are normally born in the spring as it is warmer but sometimes a stallion gets out of it's pen or some kind of accident happens and they are born later i the year. My horse was born in the fall cuz the stallion got out and bred her dam.
Foals can be born at any time of the year but it is most typical to have a foal born in the spring because horses are seasonal breeders. Many breed organizations early foals to increase maturity with the idea that the foals will be better able to compete as 2-5 years of age. Other breeders may have an aged mare that cycles at a non-standard time of year and they breed in the off season because getting a late or early foal is better than no foal.
Foals (if you think about it) can only be born once!
Sorry if the question was not meant to be a riddle.
Mares generally give birth to their foals in the spring and early summer. Sometimes a foal will be born in the fall or winter, but this happens fairly infrequently.
True. When foals are born they are covered in hair.
born with them.
It appears that Aristides only sired four foals, all of which were fillies.
No my dear friend it is more likely for them to be born in spring but they can be born at other times...
There are zebra foals and pony foals, so yes.
When they are first born, they care called newborn foals.
The most general answer for the foals born to a mare or stallion are as follows. Dam: is the word for a mare or female horse producing foals. The foals she produces are called her "produce". Sire: is the word for a stallion or male horse who has bred mares. The foals produced by a stallion are call his "get". (The stallion "gets" the mares in foal so the foals produced by him are his "get".)
oxygen stops being supplied to the foal once the umbilical cord is disconnected from the mare, it is extremely important to make sure the foals nose and mouth are clear as soon as it is born.
No. It isn't possible. A horse can only have up to two foals and if that happens it is rare that one of them survive and even rarer if both survive.
Foals usually around 55#
Yeah, just like any other animal can.