To grow up a good horse, many efforts will be required. Patience at education, the attentive relation and leaving, knowledge of the main regularities of development and growth of an animal – all this is necessary in order that the foal became strong, healthy and clever.
Instruction
1. Prepare the clean and dry room in which you will support a young horse. In advance stock up with a laying, put it on half of the stable where there is a mare that just born foal did not lay down on the cold and crude earth and did not catch a cold. Preserve it and against drafts.
2. At once show consideration for the newborn baby and he is tender that the foal grew obedient and trustful. If to treat a young horse roughly, to shout at her and to beat, then she will become timid, can hit the person or escape from him.
3. The foal at first after the birth eats mother's milk. When he is 15 days old, begin to give him barley or oats. Make a small feeding trough, fill up in it at first 100-200 g of a forage a day, then gradually increase its weight to 2 kg. During feeding of a foal tie a mare, otherwise she will eat everything that is intended only for it. Or establish a feeding trough in the place, inaccessible for it.
4. Usually the foal at the age of 6-7 months is already taken away from a mare. Take care of that by then a young horse there were enough vitamins and minerals for the normal growth and development. Along with concentrates and nutritional supplements the foal should give hay of early cleaning which is especially valuable to it. Besides, in its feeding trough there have to be always a salt and chalk.
5. To develop a habit at a horse to submit to you and it is necessary to fix at it useful reflexes from the first days after her birth. Periodically put a halter on a foal and gradually accustom him to lifting of legs, cleaning of a wool cover, the movement step, and then and at a trot. This work should be carried out persistently and purposefully, thanks to it you considerably facilitate further a zayezdka.
6. Initial monthly training of a foal in movements in a team, in an occasion and under a saddle is and there is a zayezdka. Carry out it when he is about one and a half years old. During a zayezdka you will need to accustom a young horse to a bridle, a collar, a team, reins.