How to Start Your Foal on Feed
Madeline Boast, MSc
June 22, 2026
As foals grow, their nutritional needs change rapidly. Learn when to introduce creep feed and how to support your foal’s healthy development.
As foals grow, their nutritional needs change rapidly. Learn when to introduce creep feed and how to support your foal’s healthy development.
With the right plan, you can make weaning as stress-free as possible for your mare and her foal.
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Dr. Nancy Diehl addresses a question about why a mare might respond differently to training after having her first foal.
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Feeding weanlings through early training requires careful balance to support steady growth, proper mineral ratios, and sound development without overfeeding.
Proteins and the amino acids that form them play important roles in the horse’s body, from muscle building and function to neurotransmission and hormone synthesis.
Newborn foals depend on colostrum‑derived antibodies, making rapid and accurate IgG testing to confirm passive transfer essential.
Rotavirus causes severe contagious diarrhea in young foals. New research explains why current vaccines miss Group B and how new vaccines could protect foals.
Sometimes mares don’t produce enough milk to support their foals’ demands. Here’s what you can do to help.
Foal rejection can jeopardize the foal’s health—and even life—due to failure of passive transfer of immunity or risk of severe injury.
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