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Post by patchworklilly on Mar 20, 2011 22:34:32 GMT
Hi,Im a newbie on here,just a quick question how often do you cover your mares every year or every other?  |
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Post by oberchis on Mar 21, 2011 1:04:04 GMT
I like tocover mine every other year, some times longer
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Post by holiday on Mar 21, 2011 8:05:16 GMT
Depends on my mares, how well the foaling went, how they are looking, some I will cover every year especially older mares others I will cover every other or longer.
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sarahp
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Post by sarahp on Mar 21, 2011 8:22:06 GMT
I only cover to get something I want to keep, usually a good daughter of each mare to keep families going. So it's far more variable and depends on many factors. I'm currently hardly covering any A mares as there is no market (you do of course get colts and fillies not good enough which will be for sale at some point), only two, neither of which have had a foal for me at all yet. Senior A mare is now retired but I have two lovely daughters anyway and apart from the two above the others are young enough to wait for a bit, and a couple are lent out for a ridden career. As for the Ds - I'm still trying to breed myself a daughter of my stallion to keep but I have very few mares for him to cover. Hoping for a female version of the one that went to the Futurity last year holiday!
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Post by pattendown on Mar 21, 2011 19:30:03 GMT
i like to cover my nf mare every year as she has had firtilty problems in the past mine run with the stallion all the time like a natural herd
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