Duchesne Record | 1914-08-07 | Page 6 | Care for the Brood Mares

CARE FOR THE BROOD MARES Some Somo of Essential Factors In Success ful fui Management Are Wholesome Food and Pure Water It seems that on OD many farms where only one or two colts are they hey are looked upon as sort Bort of a 8 byproduct product This Is IB due In no small measure to the fact that the brood broodmares broodmares broodmares mares pa pay their Initial cost price and Excellent Farm Team cost for tor their care by the labor which the they perform I The practise on the part of the stallion stal stat lion owners In breeding mares arid and giving a guarantee of living foals has hal led some men to treat the brood mares carelessly knowing that thal If It any mares failed tailed to give birth to live foals they were not liable for the stallion fee ree Wholesome food pure water pure pureair pureair pureair air sufficient exercise and care In lii driving and handling are the essential factors In the successful management of foal in-foal mares They should be bo worked regularly to insure exercise but their work should be moderate and at no time such a. a asto as asto to endanger the lives of or the unborn offspring A ration consisting of or oats corn bran and mixed hay Is highly satisfactory satia satis factory the quantity of each being governed go by the condition of ot the marand marand mar mare and labor performed Constant carE and observation on the part of the teamster and the feeder greatly decreases decreases de de- decreases de- de creases the liability of accident The date of ot the birth of foals should be governed b by hy conditions surround surround- Mare and Her Two Foals Ing the owner Early foals are ver very desirable because they attain goo good size before the arrival of ot the hot summer sum sum- mer men months and because their dams dam will be in good condition to do their thel share of work vork during the early sprIng sprin and the summer