BREEDING THE TROTTER 



day and Friday or Saturday of each week till ten 

 or twelve weeks have passed since breeding. The 

 trials from the eighteenth to the thirty-third days 

 after foaling are important ones. If the mare 

 stands these trials it is safe to say that she is with 

 foal. If the mare comes in season on any of these 

 trial days she should be re-bred and the process 

 of trying repeated. 



In case you have any trouble in getting the 

 mare with foal and if it is feared that she may be 

 barren she should be treated as mentioned in 

 chapter eleven. 



CARE OF MARE AND COLT IN PASTURE. 



We will now return to the mare and her young 

 colt. As soon as the weather is fit and the nights 

 warm the mare and the colt should be turned into 

 pasture. If the mare does not thrive that way 

 she should be taken up at ten o'clock each morn- 

 ing and fed two quarts of crushed oats mixed 

 with two quarts of bran. She should also be 

 given a small quantity of alfalfa or green corn. 

 About three o'clock the mare should have a feed 

 of from two to four quarts of the mixture already 

 mentioned, without the green stuff. About five 

 o'clock she should be turned back into the pasture 

 for the evening. 



Too many mares should not be kept in one pas- 

 ture. As mentioned in chapter three it is advis- 

 able to divide them among ten-acre pasture lots 

 rather than allow all of them to run together. 



Towards the middle of the summer the colts 



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