TRAINING, AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 8 1 



As soon as the foal has sucked, the mare and foal 

 may then be left to themselves, and the quieter the 

 better. 



The above is an outline of the general treatment 

 of mares, without going into any details of various 

 complications that may occur, such as a foal coming 

 wrong, hind legs first, head doubled back, when it 

 will generally be found that the bag as a rule does not 

 appear first, as is the natural course; but, in any cases 

 of irregularity, a veterinary surgeon should be sent 

 for at once. A mare, after she goes down to foal, 

 should she seern to have difficulty, and be unusually 

 long without any satisfactory results, a veterinary 

 surgeon should be sent for. In natural cases of 

 foaling, a mare should not be lotiger than half-an-hour 

 or so in labour, though, in many cases, the foal is 

 born in ten minutes. 



Immediately after foaling, the mare should be fed 

 for the first week on sloppy food, consisting of oats, 

 swedes, and cut chaff The whole should be cooked 

 and given in a lukewarm state. The working mare 

 and foal should be kept in a roomy box for the first 

 few days. 



If the foal is an early one, and in my opinion the 

 earlier the better, it is an excellent thing to encourage 

 it to eat a little of its mother's boiled food, and this it 

 can do within a few days after it is foaled ; thus, when 

 the time comes for it to be weaned, it takes to artificial 



