How long after birth until a mare gets rid of afterbirth?

Answer 1

I think you mean how long should you wait to breed your mare again? A mare can be bred right back in her foal heat which occurs in the first month after giving birth. If you are referring to how long you need need to keep you mare in an isolated clean environment after giving birth, well, there is no such thing in the horse world. The best you can do is put down fresh straw daily or turn your mare and foal out on pasture.

Answer 2

A mare can be ridden around a week after she has her colt. The colt will follow behind the mare and it is perfectly okay to ride them with a colt by her side.
You should wait for 6 weeks to two months before you resume riding the mare.
After the foal has been weaned, or around in an enclosed area where the foal can follow the mother around while you ride.

Answer 3

Ideally the mare will pass the entire placenta within a couple of hours after the foal is born. Often the placenta will pass immediately as the foal is born. The placenta should be checked by a veterinarian as soon as possible to make sure that it didn't tear and that a piece didn't get left behind. You should never try to pull the placenta out. If it is hanging out of the mare, you can tie it up with baling twine to make sure that she doesn't step on it. If any of the placenta doesn't pass and is left behind in the mare, this can cause serious life threatening complications including laminitis and death. This is why it is so important to save the afterbirth in a bucket and let the vet examine it to make sure the whole thing is there.

Answer 4

With "normal" foaling and with the placenta successfully passed the uterus will return to normal size very rapidly. Blood associated with foaling should be very minimal and

will not be a bright red color (this is blood from the placenta not the mare) for much more than an hour once the placenta is passed. Loggia (a muddy brownish fluid) will continue to be passed for a few to several days post foaling.

Since the operative phrase here is "normal" there should be no appreciable flow of bright red blood from the mare's vaginal tract and certainly none with associated high pressure or venous pulse. Most mares will be bright and attentive to their foals and they should have a normal capillary refill rate of 1-2 seconds with pink gums.

Answer 5

Most mares can be ridden several weeks after foaling, generally up to six weeks is the given estimate, but really it depends on the mare herself. Some mares do best when in work, even after foaling and can return to work earlier than the six week period, while some mares do not like to work when they have a foal at their side and take longer to bring back to riding.

Answer 6

It takes in between 2- 3 years. It also depends on the horse.