Allison Sheehan Racing & Breeding Services

28/10/2024

🍼🙏HUGE THANK YOU 🙏🍼
Incredibly grateful to everyone who shared my wanted post yesterday. We have managed to successfully foster the filly onto the sweetest Tb mare. 🥰🥰 All is going fantasticly well so far.

26/10/2024

UPDATE :
We have found a potential foster 🤞🤞🤞 it works out
💥💥💥WANTED💥💥💥
On the lookout for a Foster mare in Vic for a newborn Stb foal. Excellent care will be taken of suitable mare.
* her Dam is 100% fine & a great mother but she does not produce milk. She’s had colostrum. Currently hand feeding a healthy filly until we find the perfect mare.

22/10/2024

17/10/2024

Camilla is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to gut health. 🦠🦠🦠

18/09/2024

🐴Foal #️⃣4️⃣ for the season
A big strong c**t by Art Major for the great producing mare Sahara Miss (Stb) 🐴

07/09/2024

🐴Tassort x Early Hours🐴 (Dawn Approach) c**t at 7 days. Exceptional type.

20/08/2024

We’ve had great results using Equilume masks. 🔵🔵🔵

09/08/2024

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Did you know that a healthy newborn foal consumes 15-25% of its body weight in milk daily?!

It may also nurse from its mother an incredible 70-80 times per day! In the first few days of life it may nurse even more frequently…as often as every 10 minutes.

On average, a healthy young foal will gain 0.5-1.5kg of weight daily.

04/08/2024

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Keeping a ‘record book’ detailing your mares foaling is a great idea. We’ve been doing this for a few seasons now, last year we switched things up with this detailed report so that mare owners can be given an in depth report from each foaling.
Feel free to save & print for your own records 📝

06/07/2024

⚠️PRE FOALING CHECKLIST ✅

It is important that as your pregnant mare is awaiting her foal to be born to start planning, to help ensure the best outcome for both mum and foal.

📅Calculate your mare’s expected foaling date:
The average gestation length in a mare ranges from 320 to 362 days. Most mares will foal within 330-345 days of successful breeding; however some foals can be born as early as 320 days or as late as 390 days.

💉Immunizations:
Plan to vaccinate your mare with 2in1 Tetanus Strangles 4 weeks before she is due to foal. The antibodies from these vaccines will be passed on to the foal through colostrum.

🪡Caslick:
It is important that if your mare has been caslicked at the time of breeding that this be opened in the lead up to her getting ready for foaling. Failure to open the caslick may result in unnecessary vulval tearing or a potentially difficult birth.

👶🏻Maiden Mares:
Often first time mums are not use to having their teats touched and are often extremely reactive. Regular handling of the mare around the udder area can help desensitize the mare to this stimulation and in turn assist with the nursing process.

🐄Udder size:
The most notable change in the lead up to a mare getting ready to foal is in the mammary glands. The udder will usually begin to fill 2-4 weeks prior to foaling with milk and typically let down into the teats 4-6 days prior to foaling. In the 48 hours prior to foaling small secretions of colostrum may dry up on the end of the teats which is commonly known as ‘waxing up’. Some mares may also run milk from the teats 24 hours before foaling; if the running of milk however continues beyond 24 hours then your veterinarian should be advised.

🧘🏻Hindquarters changing shape:
The ligaments over the pelvis and under the tail head relax slightly giving a 'dropped' appearance to the hindquarters in the approximate week prior.

It is important to remember that every mare is different and their changes can vary from horse to horse and each mare should be assessed accordingly.