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Do horses have foals?
Yes, mare's (female horses) can have foals.
What is the progeny of a mare horse called?
A mare or stallions foals are called 'Get' collectively. They can also just be referred to as foals or offspring.
When can you feel milk in a horse teats?
It depends on the mare. You may feel milk in the mare's udder when she has a month left to foal, or you may feel milk in the mare's udder right after she has foaled.
How big should foals be inside the mare?
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How long does a mare carry twin foals for?
The length of pregnancy would not really be affected by the number of foals, all horses tend to carry a foal or foals for about 11 months or roughly 330 to 340 days.
How do pinto horses' feed their babies?
Like any other horse. A mare has a two-nippled udder between her rear legs that her foal nurses from. A wild mare may nurse her young for up to a year, though domesticated mares generally wean the foals at 4-6 months.
What does it mean when a horse's udder gets big?
This typically means she is pregnant, late in pregnancy she will being to 'bag up' where her udder engorges with colostrum and milk. Then shortly before she foals she will begin to ' Wax up', which is where she would begin to slowly drip colostrum/milk from her udders. If however the mare is not pregnant this can signal an infection that would likely need a equine vet to write a prescription for antibiotics to treat it.
Is the horses udder firm just before delivery of the foal?
Yes in fact most of the time milk is literally streaming from the udder, or sometimes it can just sort of leak. But, beware, if the mare is losing milk long before the baby comes it is not really a good thing because the mom is losing alot of nutrients that the baby needs.
What is the plural form of the mare gave birth to a foal?
The mare gave birth to foals...the mares foaled.
What of you call a offspring of a horse?
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".)
Why do they call mares broodmare if a mare can have babies too?
You're right all mares can have foals. But not every owner whats their mare to have foals. Mares that have owners that what them to have foals are called broodmares. Mares that are not going to be used for breeding purposes are just called mares.
What is the name of a mate for a mare?
A mate for a mare is a stallion.The foals dad is called the sire which is the stallion....hope i helped!
