Gestation lasts 12 months. From the eighth month onwards and for 50 , you can ask for an ultrasound to find out the gender, the breed and the coat of the foal. Once at this stage of gestation, the mare can then only do lessons. During the 12th month of gestation, you can get a vet to visit (the link is found in the Reproduction box, top right), and ensure that your mare is in an equestrian center that has excellent healthcare.
Starting in this experience is not insignificant. It is your responsibility to measure the financial investment that a foaling represents. The vet costs between 500 and 600 . The exact price depends on the quality of the healthcare of the equestrian center in which your mare is a resident. Once the foal is born, you can choose his name and start to look after him. You have to place him in an equestrian center when he is separated from his mother at 6 months.
Please keep in mind that it is not necessarily in your best interest to cover a mare which excels in dressage with a horse whose speed is its strength. In fact, the foal will not necessarily be better in each of these characteristics. It is better, therefore, to favor coverings between similar breeds, for example, breed a horse that excels in jumping to another horse that excels in jumping.
As foaling is emotional for her, a mare may only be covered again 10 months after the birth of her last foal.
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