Introducing new males causes female horses to abort

[Wifezilla]

Ya learn something new every day!

"The practice of transporting the mare for mating or artificial insemination with a foreign stallion and then bringing her back to an environment with home males is wrong," he said.
"It is very likely it is one of the main causes of such high percentages of pregnancy disruption in domestic horses."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9440000/9440222.stm

 

[Neko-chan]

Interesting! I never knew that.

 

[mom2bbjandag]

Interesting! Not sure I completely agree, but it's worth more study if you're breeding mares.

I love ANYTHING HORSES

Paula

 

[Denim Deb]

Great! Next time the horses tear down a fence, I'm calling you to go round them up, and fix the fence.

 

[valmom]

Hm. I've always bred AI on our farm, so I don't know about shipping in and out. The only mare that slipped foals was prone to it. I suppose it makes sense in the wild, and you can only breed out "wild" so much.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I'm suspect.