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No...not all mares wax before foaling.

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Do all pregnant mares teats get big before labor?

yes


Can mare get pregnant from man?

No, mares are female horses and cannot get pregnant by a human male. Interbreeding between different species is not biologically possible. Mares can only get pregnant by mating with a male horse (stallion).


What is PMU?

PMU (pregnant mares' urine) What happens to PMU mares?For approximately six months from fall through spring, the pregnant mares live in the "pee barns," forced to stand in stalls with urine collection devices strapped to them. The stalls are deliberately narrow to prevent pregnant mares from turning around and detaching the collection cups. In the last month of their eleven-month pregnancy, the mares are put out to pasture to have their foals. The mares are put in a herd with a stallion, so they quickly become pregnant again. In September, their foals are taken away from them to be sold, whether or not they are fully weaned. The next month, they're back in the barns and the cycle starts again. The organization that represents the interests of the PMU ranchers, the North American Equine Ranching Information Council (NAERIC ), considers it "a testament to her health and strength" if a mare can have a foal each year for 20 years. Currently, approximately 7,000 PMU mares live on 73 contracted ranches in Manitoba, Canada. The minimum stall width specified in the regulations­ -- even for the largest draft breeds so commonly used -- is a mere five feet. A typical PMU ranch consists of a small family and one hired ranch hand responsible for feeding, cleaning and exercising nearly 100 pregnant mares at a time. All the mares stay in a rectangle stal from there chess to there rear end and or flanks


When horses have been pregnant for a long time how do you know how soon they are going to have the foal?

well you can tell because the mare is really breathing hard and if it is your mares first foal then you need to take her to the vet to make shure that the mare is healthy enof to have her foal.Answer. Well first off you should have taken your mare to the vet when she first got pregnant and that would have given you an idea. Now so if you have the mares DO-DATE then you will start to have an idea of when she should be having her foal. Also when your mares titts start to WAX(It gets brown stuff that looks like wax where the milk will be coming out) they will either have there foal that night or 2 nights after words. Umm lets see this usually does not happen but if your mares titts are dripping milk then the baby will be coming very soon.(THIS IS VERY INPORTANT DO NOT SQUIZE THE TITTS THAT IS HE WORST THING YOU CAN DO)


Do pregnant mares have to be kept away from other horses?

No. All horses are herd animals and they do much better when they are with other horses. The only time to separate a pregnant mare would be if the other horses are are picking on her and she has received injuries or at the time right before foaling when its helpful to have her in a large stall or her own paddock. After birth, if mom and baby are doing well they can both go back in with the other horses within a day or two.