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Giving a Foal a Good Start

Giving a Foal a Good Start

By Mark Woodcock

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 them both for the first few hours.

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