Horse Breeding

The udder should feel firm, with a slight give to it, and have easily expressable milk from both teats. If the foal has recently nursed, the udder may feel softer.

Depends on the grey. You can only tell if you know the color before it turned gray.

Mare owners who are not directly involved in the breeding process (handling the mare or the stallion during the breeding process), should:

1) Determine the reason for breeding...

a. If the foal is to be sold

1. Target market and the best stallion to use for the mare's breeding to

optimize foal value and performance ability

b. If the mare is being bred for personal use or as a replacement

1. Owner should determine whether their desire to breed is

realistic and whether their goal is achievable

2) Determine if the mare can or should be bred.

a. Is the mare well bred, conformationally correct, good temperament

b. Is the mare breeding sound

c. Can the owner afford any emergencies or regular expenses associated

with breeding/foaling or issues with the early neonatal foal.

d. Is the owner willing to risk the loss of the mare due to a foaling accident

(while this may be a rare occurance it can still happen)

3. Owner will be required to provide culture results on the mare to be bred

If this question refers to the handling of either a mare or stallion during the actual breeding process the handler needs to ally themselves with someone who can show them the specifics of general handling. Realize that every mare and stallion is different. Handlers must have enough experience to be able to determine the safest way to deal with individual horses. The breeding process can be extremely dangerous, it is imperative that the safety of everyone involved (including the stallion and the mare) is of primary concern.

3 days - like a normal sims 3 pregnancy

No, they will not drop if your horse is not preggo or has ever been preggo.

There are several methods a veterinarian can use to abort a conceptus/fetus.

Saline injection into the heart, prostiglandin injection to the mare before 35 days post conception, a series of prostiglandin injections after day 35.

Unimplanted concepti can be moved and crushed against the pelvic brim (often used to reduce one conceptus when there are twins).

Procedures become more complicated and dangerous as pregnancy progresses.

Once the safety of the mare comes into question it is probably advisable to allow her to foal and either have the foal euthanized or find a willing adopter.

Texas is a big horse state. I doubt that there was ever a time when it was not popular. But horse breeding in Texas really boomed with the King Ranch. This was the birthplace of the American Quarter Horse. The King Ranch is still in operation along with hundreds of others all over the state.

well it all mainly depends on the color of your parents. it they are the same color than you are likely to get a baby with the same color. if you want a certain color, then you can go to a science lab and have them mess with the gene pool and get the color that you want. even though that would cost hundreds and thousands of dollars. you would be a lucky person to get the color you want.

You can breed two horses of the same color and get a totally different colored horse. What a horse looks like, the phenotype of a horse, has very little to do with it's offspring. The genotype of a horse has everything to do with it. In the related links is a site that will let you put in the mare's color, the stallion's color and if you know their genotypes, that too. Then it will display the possible foal colors.

And when breeding for color, don't leave out other characteristics, such as athletic ability, confirmation, temperament. Those are more important than color, so keep those in mind.

the cost of having a horse 'fixed' will vary by vet to vet. To have a colt or Stallion castrated and turned into a gelding is cheaper than to have a mare spayed. You should expect to pay $1,000 or more, but this is a rough cost.

Morgan.

if you are capable of managing your horse, a good age would be around three. you should be able to start putting a saddle on them around that time, but you can still teach them loads. if not, you might want a horse around five or older.

Personally, I avoid certain breeds that just are not worth the effort. Percheron's are a favorite of mine and thoroughbreds are the worst. Go for lower maintenance horses. The weak ones will break your bank with medical bills. Percheron, Morgan and the tougher breeds will never need help.

The draft mentality is one of friendly behaving and willingness to try things. They make awesome led horses on trails. You can get a nice one around Wisconsin for under $1K. I got a 3 year old mare for $500.00. Never had an issue or problem and she even jumps!

Lipizzaners are highly intelligent horses with a natural ability to concentrate on learning.

The foal is most likely to be grey. If it is not grey, it is likely to be bay, could be black although not as likely and there is a very small chance it will be chestnut. It depends on the genetics really. Keep in mind that black is dominant over all other colour alleles, bay being a dilution of black and white being an absence of black. Behind the genetics of all coat colours is black or chestnut. All colours are variants of black. The closest coat colour to black is the darkest chestnut. So, if the bay is heterozygous for black, which most are, I'm sticking with the grey theory. I foal-out almost 200 horses every year and lethal colour alleles aside, my colour guesses through past experience are correct most of the time. Although the couple duns where nice surprises! And very true is the lack of Pedigrees to figure out the lineage in colour; this makes it near impossible to give percentages for each colour outcome.

I don't know who posted this tip for you, but you should be aware of the fact that you shouldn't be getting a grey foal out of that cross. The first reason for this is because white horses have the dominant white gene turned on not grey. Grey has it's own gene. Because white is dominant over every other color, any other dominant genes that the white horse has are completely chance and you should review the animal's pedigree to determine the most likely possibilities via the parents' and grandparents' colors.

Bay horses have at least one dominant agouti and extension gene. This means that they can pass on a sorrel, black, or bay color to their foal.

The next issue to address is whether or not your white horse is actually white. If it is, it will have pink skin, brown eyes, and no markings whatsoever. It is completely white. If the white horse has dark skin, it is, in fact, grey. If this is the case, you could get a grey foal but it might not appear to have any dominant grey genes until it begins to shed. In the event that the white horse is really grey, your best chance of finding out what colors it might pass on are in knowing the color it was at birth. If that information is unknown, consult the pedigree charts.

This website is a color calculator. They know what they are talking about but you have to make sure you have the correct colors or you'll get erroneous results.

Good luck with your baby!

Depends which allele is more dominant

I know from experience that this horse should be gray, because I personally know a bay mare that was breed many times with a welsh pony (a gray) and the foals all ended up gray.

i have one sidenote from the above. majority of the 'white' horses you see are really grey. only the few that are actually white are known as 'true white'. the ones that are really grey are 'false white'

Abortions in mares are not rare. Like humans, most unsuccessful pregnancies end early. The period of EED (early embryonic death) can occur

anywhere up to 34 days without effectively compromising the ability of the mare to become pregnant in a single breeding season.

Any EED that occurs after 35 days results in the mare not returning to estrus for several months which generally results in a late or no foal. Breeders who want to produce early foals for sales or futurities stand to take a considerable economic "hit" by producing a late foal.

A primary cause of abortions in mares is the presence of twins. Since horses rarely succeed in producing live twin foals the industry standard is to destroy

the smaller conceptus 14-16 days post ovulation. Breeds that tend to double ovulate (Thoroughbreds are a good example) are usually monitored closely

for twins because of the financial loss represented by middle or late term aborted twins.

Other causes of miscarriage/abortion can be disease, inflammation, genetic defect, illness, ingestion of plant and other toxins, the use of products that contain organophosphates (some wormers), inappropriate vaccination during organogenesis or placental insufficiency to name a few.

While the litany of reasons for miscarriage are many, by and large most mares successfully pregnant at 35 days (carrying a single fetus) is quite high.

They can. Some mares continue to have heat cycles even during the cold months.

Well possibly, this would mainly depend on the color of the mare. Buckskin is a dilute color and will dilute the base color of a horse (Bay + Cream= buckskin etc,).

Yes, and occasionally mares will swap foals. A mare stealing a foal is often problematic since the mare may not be lactating.

The same as your own nipples: she likes to be petted there!

The double cream gene or homozygous (double) diluted chestnut gene produces the cremelo, perlino or smoky cream coat colors on horses. One cream gene or heterozygous produces palomino, buckskins, and smoky blacks.

You go to the male you want your mare to breed with, go to reproduction and and under covering, click reserved for one of your mare's, then type in the name of your mare or press see mares, then click confirm. Go back to the mare you want to breed with go under reproduction and then private offers (it will be colored not gray of you did the steps before) and click confirm!

Possibly, or it could mean you have a larger than average baby, or too much amnionic fluid, or your due date is incorrect.

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I don't think so, only a mare can mate with a stallion.

_ThehorseGal&Advisor