The foal birth – an important event for a personal farmstead. But that the touching kid turned into a stately horse or a tender mare, he needs to be grown up correctly. Protect a foal, in time you treat him and, of course, correctly you feed. All stat of a horse and her future working qualities are put in the first year of her life therefore the question of food of foals needs to pay special attention.
It is required to you
- - hay of early cleaning;
- - oats or swaged barley;
- - bran;
- - oatmeal;
- - fodder beet;
- - carrots;
- - concentrates;
- - chalk;
- - salt;
- - fresh grass.
Instruction
1. The newborn foal has to eat exclusively maternal milk. But in 15 days it will need a feeding up. It is the best of all to give to the kid swaged barley or oats. Make a separate feeder for a foal and fill up a forage in the small portions there. Begin with 100 grams of grain a day and gradually bring day norm to 2 kilograms.
2. Establish foal feeder in the place inaccessible for a mare or tie her in an opposite corner of the stable during feeding. So it will be simpler to you to regulate norm of the forage eaten by the kid.
3. In warm season of a two-three-week foal release together with mother on a meadow. It will begin to try a fresh grass that will positively affect his health and an additional weight.
4. Provide the kid with enough fresh water. Regularly you clean drinking bowls. The less juicy forages in a diet of a horse, the more she has to drink.
5. In 6-7 months of a foal it is necessary to separate from mother. At this age the young growth has to receive enough the rough forages contributing to the correct development of digestive bodies. The best forage for foals – hay of early cleaning in which enough nutrients remained. You watch that the begun to rot hay did not get to a forage of young growth – it is fraught with frustration of an intestinal path.
6. Except hay the foal has to receive bran (to kilogram a day), oat straw (to four kilograms), fodder beet or carrots (one-two kilograms). Include highly nourishing concentrates, chalk and salt in a diet. Mineral additives always have to be in free access. Enclose them in a feeding trough and add in process of eating.
7. The growing-up young growth has to spend much time in the fresh air. The movement strengthens skeletal system and a linking of a horse and also promotes good appetite. Expel a foal on a meadow with good herbage more often. Than more fresh forages will receive an animal, especially healthy and strong it will grow.