Howdy horse lovers! My co-writer, Raye, recently wrote a very interesting article titled Is Your Mama A Mare: Things To Consider. Within this post, she highlighted a main point which talked about the possibility that your mare may be too young or too old to breed. I would like to share with you all my own personal experience about how dangerous it truly can be when a mare has a foal too early in her life.
The gorgeous paint filly that you see in the picture above reminds me so much of Angel, my foal that only lived for ten days. Her mom, Miss Sunny Review, was a filly herself when we bought her from a horse sale at the age of two. She is a beautiful stock paint Quarter Horse that used to have the gentlest and sweetest personality and disposition until she lost her foal. The important detail that we were unaware of was that she was pregnant when we brought her home to our farm, and she delivered Angel about six months later.
The foal was absolutely beautiful! However, she suffered from some internal complications that we truly believe resulted from her mother being too young and having a foal of her own too soon. Although Sunny was really young, she was a wonderful mom to Angel for the little time they had together, but that mare has never been the same since she lost her baby. Losing Angel was a huge devastation to Sunny, but also to me because I know that it was a situation that could have been prevented if Sunny had not been bred too young, and too soon.
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