Nearly as important as a mare having a foal is getting her bred back to have next year’s baby. Breeding on foal heat is an old management strategy aimed at doing just that. It is the first heat cycle ...

Transporting a horse is always fraught with potential problems. The potential for trouble increases when a foal, only weeks (or days) of age, is added into the mix, such as at breeding time when a ...

Foaling in horses is extremely fast. Labour and the active part of foaling, resulting in delivery of the foal, take 10 to 20 minutes and are considerably shorter than giving birth in humans or in cows ...

Veterinarians at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital answer your questions about sales and healthcare of Thoroughbred auction ...

Horse trainer Carrie Brogden tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro a heartwarming tale from Machmer Hall Farm in Paris, Ky., about placing an orphaned foal with a bereft mare. Every once in a while, a news ...

As one new foal is born, Assateague Island National Seashore is on the lookout for more in the near future. The filly, known as N2BHS-JQ until it is given a more formal name, was born mid-November to ...