Cultivation of horses is connected with considerable difficulties. Knowledge of how childbirth at a zhereby mare proceeds, not only will help to be born to a foal, but also will allow to distinguish the possible problems capable to arise in the course of patrimonial activity.
Instruction
1. Pregnancy at a mare lasts usually about 342 days, that is about 11 months. But you should not hope for the calendar strictly. In general pregnancy is considered full-term if childbirth occurred in an interval from 321 to 365 days of date of a covering of a mare a stallion.
2. In recent days before childbirth the mare needs special attention from the owner. Thorough hoof care, enough a healthy forage and easy walks will help it to remain healthy and to gain strength necessary for this difficult business. During pregnancy it is necessary to impart a mare from herpes. On the one hand, such inoculation will become prevention of an abortion, with another - virus antibodies will pass in and mare's milk, having become reliable protection for a foal in the first weeks of his life.
3. In 2-4 weeks prior to childbirth the udder will begin to increase in sizes. Genitals increase, and just before ozhereby of nipples the spontaneous release of colostrum can begin. The animal becomes uneasy, there comes time of direct preparation for childbirth.
4. Childbirth at a mare can be divided into 3 periods. The first of them is characterized by emergence of fights. The horse can begin to be nervous and her behavior becomes similar to what arises at an animal at gripes in a stomach. The mare constantly turns around to a stomach, uneasily touches legs, begins to sweat, can periodically defecate in the small portions.
5. The second phase - the direct birth of a foal - lasts about 30 minutes. The mare lays down, there are noticeable strong reductions of a stomach. If in half an hour the cub still remains in mother's womb, it is necessary to invite immediately the veterinarian that that defined the provision of a fruit possible incorrectly. The first front legs are born, at this one hoof slightly blocks another. The nose, the head, a neck and shoulders leave the following. If the sequence of emergence of parts of a body deviates normal, it is a reason for immediate intervention of the expert too. Before back legs are born, there can be a break of an umbilical cord, this phenomenon is quite normal. If the umbilical cord did not break, the mare itself will have a bite it at the right time, it is not necessary to interfere with this process. The only thing about what it is worth taking care - of disinfection of an umbilical stump within 24 hours after the delivery in order to avoid accession of an infection. If the muzzle of the kid is still covered with a bubble, it is necessary to break off it that the foal did not choke. The remains of a bubble will be removed by mother during licking of a cub.
6. The third phase of childbirth at a mare is characterized by exile of an afterbirth and can last from 1 to 2 hours. If in 3 hours nothing occurs, it is necessary to show a horse to the veterinarian. The been born afterbirth should be shifted at once in a bucket and to carry away from the shelter that the mare did not eat it.
7. The newborn has to rise within the first hour by legs and the latest in 2-3 hours after the delivery to begin to drink milk from mother's udder. Within the first day at a foal meconium has to depart. If the cub makes an effort, winds the head, but cannot squeeze out from himself anything, survey of the expert is necessary for him. Any aberration has to become a reason for concern and acceptance of possible measures.