Giving A Foal A Good Start
Having only been a horse owner for 10 months, to suddenly find myself with a foal to care for was quite a shock.
My horse is a traditional coloured cob, prone to be a bit on the large side anyway, so she hid the foal very well. So well in fact that it was not until we found her early one morning with a foal at her side that we realised!
A call to the vet advised me that as long as the foal was suckling and the mare was calm, everything was ok, but to keep an eye on th...
Having only been a horse owner for 10 months, to suddenly find myself with a foal to care for was was particularly useful when I needed to bring mum and foal into the yard and pop her into a stable if the blacksmith or vet was coming.
As the foal got bigger I had to work on teaching her about “my space” as a boisterous foal at shoulder height could easily have knocked me over and she had to learn not to bump into me.
We had a lot of fun for the months that the foal was with me and although it broke my heart when I had to part with her, it gave me great pleasure when she trustingly trotted into the trailer to go back to the farm that my mare had come from. I am sure that the foal will take to all the other things she has to learn over the next couple of years with equal confidence and trust and be as kind and gentle as my horse is.
