In order to have a healthy stallion, it is necessary to make sure the horse has been vaccinated. This way, the chance of getting an infection can be decreased. In addition, making sure that there are no insects on the body is also important since insects can not only cause infections but also carry other diseases.
Before caring for a sick horse, it is important to nursing an injured horse first. If the wound is already healed and there are infection signs, then it has to be treated before giving any medication or food. A healthy horse will produce antibodies that can help fight off infections after vaccination (see Related Link for more information). However, if a sick animal’s immune system does not work well, then the animal will not be able to produce antibodies. Thus, this must be taken into consideration when caring for sick horses.
When taking care of a horse, it is necessary to feed them with food that is balanced in nutrients and vitamins so that they can stay strong and healthy while fighting off diseases or infections. Water also needs to be fresh and clean, not containing too much chlorine or other chemicals that may affect the horse’s health. Besides water and food, it is also important to care for a horse through scratching and patting them so they know someone is there with them.
Patting and touching an animal can be very beneficial because this will release oxytocin in the body. Oxytocin is also known as the “love hormone” that relaxes and comforts humans when they are in physical contact with one another. The same thing happens to animals since oxytocin helps them release endorphins which makes them feel good.
It is also necessary to keep an eye on their living environment.
There are some points to be discussed in relation to the care of a healthy stallion which is described as under:
Breeding rates
The breeding season and breeding frequency during the year were determined for 486 healthy stallions at breeding farms. An average of two ejaculations was obtained from each breeding day, with an average of 9.0 mares covered per ejaculate. The breeding rate was 1.46 covers per breeding day with a mean service period (time from Breeding Rates the introduction of the mare until breeding is completed) of less than one minute. The breeding rate was 1.48 covers per breeding day on breeding farms, while the breeding rate on breeding days for mares bred by natural cover was 1.44 covers/day with a service period of more than ten minutes in 4% of cases.
Mare breeding
A breeding experiment was conducted with twenty mares to determine the breeding rate in natural breeding conditions. Two ejaculates were obtained from each one-week breeding period, resulting in an average of 1.59 covers per day. The breeding rate when breeding farms and breeding days were combined was 1.46 covers/day with an average service period of less than one minute.
The breeding rate was 1.48 covers/day on breeding days when natural cover is used, with a breeding rate of 1.44 covers/day in 4% of breeding days with an average service period of more than ten minutes per breeding day. No effect on the breeding rate or fertility was observed after two breeding seasons.
Breeding management
Proper breeding management, breeding farms with cover breeding techniques to breed individually in the breeding farm are recommended. One breeding ejaculate should be obtained per day and the average service period before the next breeding was less than one minute. No changes were observed after two breeding seasons when the natural breeding technique is used for covered breeding.
Feeding and management
Feeding and management of a healthy stallion are just as important as feeding and management of a mare. A stallion can be used for breeding and showing, and therefore feeding and management is crucial to the horse’s health.
Feeding
The feeding schedule differs per day throughout the year depending on what season it is.
In the wintertime, feeding is strictly regulated to keep weight on the stallion. A feeding schedule in the wintertime would be feeding twice a day, feeding in the morning, and feeding again in the evening.
In order to put weight on during this season, it is important that you feed your healthy stallion two times per day. This will ensure that he has enough energy to maintain his body temperature since he does not move around as much.
The feeding itself should consist of good-quality hay and a grain mix for horses. The feeding amount should be six pounds per day, so if feeding twice a day three pounds in the morning and three pounds in the evening will suffice.
In spring feeding is regulated to maintain weight on the stallion. This feeding schedule would be similar to feeding in the winter, feeding only once per day with six pounds of good quality hay and a grain mix for horses.
Feeding twice a day in the summer is not recommended since this will result in the stallion losing more energy than he gains.
Methods of Matting
In the world of breeding horses, there are several ways to indicate how many times a horse has won a race. One method is through the use of muzzles and another method is with “stickers” which hang from a horse’s number tag on its halter or bridle.
Stickers vary in design depending on what track they are from and how much money a particular horse has won over its lifetime.
In the United States, most tracks use stickers to indicate a horse’s wins, while in Europe they are often replaced by the use of muzzles. The method of using stickers is not only more comfortable for horses but also less expensive to maintain.
For the method of matting the stallion, you would need several items:
- – Heavy-duty wire cutters
- – Lighter or matches
- – A metal coat hanger
- – Baling twine or baling wire (strongest kind)
- – Sturdy needle nose pliers/wire clippers
In the first step, clip off the bottom of the metal coat hanger so you have a straight wire to work with. Then cut out a piece of wire that is about an inch and a half long (the length can vary depending on your preference). Next, bend the free end into a small loop. The method for hooking it will come later.
Now that you have this end of your wire, start from the very end of the metal coat hanger and begin bending back small sections on it until you come to a section that has about ¾ inch of wire sticking out. Clip off this section as well as the other parts after it, as they are too sharp for our method.
Now that you have a smooth piece of metal about an inch and a half long with a large loop, file off any rough or sharp edges. This method is good if your stallion doesn’t wear a halter under the method of muzzling because it does not go around the nose as most other methods do.
Next measure down about 8 inches from the end you are working on and cut off the rest of the metal coat hanger. Next, take your needle nose pliers and bend back a tiny piece on one end of your wire to keep it from slipping through the hole in your stallion’s number tag.
Once you have done that, place the long free end through the hole in your horse’s halter or bridle number tag. Thread the needle nose pliers through the loop at the other end and then back up through the top of your halter/bridle where it came from originally.
After this is done, put a small piece of baling twine around both ends to keep them from slipping out and tie off the ends.
How to increase your personal foal crop for a stallion?
There are a few different ways to increase personal foal crop for a stallion, and here we describe them:
Increase the number of mares in service. This is particularly effective for young stallions who can get their first fillies early on (or late-born fillies) and get more chances at getting good foals out of them. This obviously works best for stallions who are popular with breeders.
Breed the mare more often to your stallion. Mares that get bred by a stallion more will conceive easier and have an increased chance at getting pregnant (before that they do not ovulate). If you like to breed your mares yourself then it’s a great way to increase personal foal crop for a stallion.
Breed your mare on several different farms or at the same farm with other stallions. Usually, this is done with young, unattested studs where they need all chances possible to get registered offspring. But even though some breeders are very picky, some breeders might be more open-minded and just go for the personal foal crop increase.
Breed your mare on several different farms with different stallions. This is especially effective if you have a very good-looking, but not so successful stallion. Breed him to as many of the best-looking and healthy mares as possible. If he does really well (gets the personal foal crop for a very good stallion) you can always breed him to some less successful mares as well and get a personal foal crop for both stallions.
Breed your mare with several different studs around the same time and on different farms and then put all the resulting foals up for sale. This increases personal foal crop for a stallion in the sense that you can make it easier to sell, and get better prices – if one of the studs does well with your mare you can always say “This is an X Y cross” and use the personal foal crop of both stallions to make the foals more appealing. Of course, it will be a personal foal crop for a stallion in this case, but it’s not very honest…
Having said all that, the personal foal crop for a stallion mostly comes down to the fertility of studs and mares.
Conclusion:
This article shows the importance of utmost care and how to use healthy stallions, from horse breeding, breeding rates, feeding, and its management, and from matting methods to the creation of foal crops for stallions. Additionally, there are the number of other ways that can be adopted as well.