Published: February 2021 | Updated: February 2024 The long awaited baby foal is about to...
Top 10 Practical Essentials Missing from your Foaling Kit
Published: February 2021 | Updated: February 2024 The long awaited baby foal is about to enter the world and you’re doing everything you can to get prepared. You’ve prepped a...
How Long is a Foal's Digestive System a Blank Slate?
Published: March 2022 | Updated: February 2024 As many of us know by now, immune health is closely tied to the microbial population within the gut. This is true for...
Foal Heat in Horses: How to Protect the Newborn Foal
Published: July 2020 | Updated: February 2023 Foal heat is what we call the first estrus or mare heat cycle after foaling, and it usually begins 6-12 days after the...
Failure of Passive Transfer in Foals
Published: July 2020 | Updated: January 2023 Given world events the last few years, most of us are very familiar with using the word antibody, but do we know exactly...
Set Up the Newborn Foal’s Immune System for Success
Published: June 2020 | Updated: January 2023 Key Takeaways: Researchers have discovered that the mare passes her microbiome on to her foal, just like a woman passes it on to...
Newborn Foals: When Something’s Not Right
Key Takeaways: The first things a healthy foal should do are stand and nurse. Foals are particularly at risk of developing diarrhea within the first week or two of life,...