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a ration, sweet skimmed milk, ground oats and oil meal, on the growth 

 and development of a foal is remarkable, and in all cases when the foal 

 is likely to enter winter in low flesh such a ration cannot be too highly 

 recommended. 



Most breeders advise leaving the colt in the stable while the mare 

 is at work; others allow the colt to follow the mare into the field. Much 

 depends on the kind of work that is to be done. Never let a colt 

 drink from a warm mare. If the mare is warm, allow her to cool 

 off and perhaps draw some of the milk by hand, when she may be turned 

 into the stall with the foal with perfect safety to both mare and foal. 



Fig. 17. — -Two men doing the work of six, through adequate horse power 



Weaning the foal 

 Weaning is rather a question of preparation than of the absolute 

 removal of the foal from the dam, and the simplicity of the weaning 

 process depends on the thoroughness of the preparation. If the foal has 

 been accustomed to grain as suggested, if it has been permitted to take 

 increasingly more as it grew, then the process will not be difficult, for 

 as the ration increases in amount of grain it will decrease in the 

 amount of milk consumed. When the time arises for complete separa- 

 tion, there will be very little if any set back or disturbance to either 



