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mare and foal is outside.
“Some people imagine that’s ‘cruel’ to put a foal out, but I say, once it’s up and dry, put ‘em out. That’s what nature intends. Helps that mare out, and it gets the foal moving.”
Taylor explained that the early foals, barring any illness, are turned out in small, then larger, groups with their dams all day. They are brought in at night until the weather allows them to be outside around the clock.
Still, Thylor prescribed bringing mares and foals into the bam for several hours each day.
“The way we do it at Taylor Made is to bring ‘em up for their morning feed,” he said. “We leave them in for a few hours. That way, we can monitor the mare, handle the foal, ‘mud’ their legs, get a good head start on their manners.”
The “mud” Taylor referred to is a farm-mixed poultice — he called it “Bowie mud” — applied every day to every foal’s legs from above the knee or hock to below the ankle, from early May through October.
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