Mares are seasonally polyestrus. This means they cycle every 3-4 weeks throughout the spring and summer. Mares will often not exhibit signs of estrus (heat) unless they are near either a stallion or a strange horse they aren't yet familiar with.
Yes they do especially if they are in season x
A mare goes into heat as part of her reproductive cycle. When a mare is in heat she can conceive a foal if she is bred. She cannot conceive if she is not in heat.
Go down to the bottom of your mare's page where it shows the covering box.Click information and it shows the stallion that covered your mare and at the top of the stallion's name, it shows how long your mare got covered ever since the covering offer got sent to your mare.
You can manipulate a mare's estrus (heat) cycle several ways. Put the mare under lights early in the winter to fool her body into thinking it's spring a few weeks earlier. Give the mare a shot of Lutalyse. This chemical makes the mare cycle sooner than normal - usually about 3-5 days after the injection. Tease the mare. A mare that doesn't have normal cycles can sometimes be encouraged to come into estrus sooner with exposure to a stallion.
If your horse is a mare wait until the horse has reached sexual maturity and then click public coverings but if you have purchased a stallion go to your mare and click private coverings and ask for your mare to breed with a stallion then after a number of months your mare will give birth, then once the foal doesn't live with it's mother start again!
Mares are notorious for having inconsistant heat cycles, especially young fillies and a mare over the age of 15. TYPICALLY, a mare is in heat for 4 to 8 days, depending on the time of year and whether or not a stallion is present (so IN heat about a week on average) and OUT of heat for 14 to 16 days (about 2 weeks on average) In the late winter or early spring, a mare may be in heat the full 8 days while in mid-summer through winter only about 4 days, so how many times per year she is in heat can vary greatly.
Normally, mares do not go off feed when they are in heat although, if they are near or in with a stallion, they may spend more time showing their interest and or being bred than eating.
Go to one of your stallion's page and scroll down and it will show a box with the words "Cover A Mare". Click that button and it shows three buttons that tells you can send a covering offer to one of your mares for free, you can give a public covering offer, or reserve a covering offer for someone else. Click on the button that says reserved for one of your mares. It'll show you a list of mares you have that can get covered by your stallion. Choose one and then it'll show that the stallion sent a covering offer to that certain mare that you wanted to cover. Then you go to that mare's page. Go down to the same part that shows covering offers. It should show that the stallion you chose to cover that mare sent you a offer and you press the button that shows that you want to cover your mare. And then it takes you to another page where it shows the two horses that is going to be covered. Go down to the bottom of your page. It shows how much money you're gonna spend to cover your mare. Press the button that you want to cover your mare and then it's done.
This behaviour is quite common, especially in the first few months. Don't let her near a stallion because if he tries to mount her she may hurt him. Experienced stallions will probably ignore the advances knowing they won't be able to mate with her.
Make sure both of your horses are of the same breed and pure breed too, then just go to reproduction for your stallion and click on cover a mare and click on your choice then click on the mare you want to be covered. The next step is to go to the mare and accept the covering.
Go to the page in which you look after your mare. Check that she is over 2 and a half years old. Then scroll to near the bottom and click on "public coverings" then choose a stallion to cover your mare. Click it and then scroll down to the botom and click cover my mare. Hope this helps and you soon start to build a reputation as a breeder! PS*If you want to make friend with me to ask future questions, I'm on the international howrse and my username is "LeaBuff"*
Near heat? You can go near anything you could go near, or could not, before you were pregnant.
My mare goes into heat every 2 weeks, i think thats normal.