Springtime is a good time to take care of these things. You might be calving and branding. It is a good time to take care of all of your animals.
Zebras and foals under the age
of eight months that are nursing a negative-tested dam are exempt. “It is pretty typical for my clients
to bring their horses to the clinic in the spring so I can vaccinate them, check their teeth, ears and anything else, as well as draw blood for a Coggins test,” Harlan says. “We can do it all in one visit.”
Grow the right product If marketing your horses is part
of your business plan, there are other aspects of routine care to con- sider, says Jim Ware, manager of Triangle Horse Sales. “If you want to raise good ranch horses, cut- ting horses or performance horses in general, you cannot walk away
once the mare conceives,” he says. “You have to take care of the mare through foaling, and then take care of her baby. It is just like with a cow. You have to make sure her teeth are good and that she is getting the right nutrients needed for the foal to develop and grow.” Ware sees many foals that did
not get the head start they needed in development, at birth and during the yearling year. They are smaller, less bloomy and do not have the same buyer appeal as those that received the extra care. “To raise the fi nal product that ev-
eryone wants – a big, beautiful geld- ing or a powerful mare – you have to take care of the animal early on.” Ware is a big proponent of creep-
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feeding young horses. “I love to see babies creep-fed. It provides them with more nutrients than they get in the pasture grass. “Nothing takes the place of feed
when it comes to growing colts,” according to Ware. “If you want to raise something big and growthy, something a rancher will be proud of, you have to feed them.” Deworming foals is also an im-
portant part of growing a healthy foal. “With what those babies pick up and eat off the ground, they are going to get parasites. I see it as I travel all across the country,” he says. “There are a lot of people who have a parasite problem on their ranch and do not know it. The babies are not shedding off and they have potbellies. They need to deworm those babies.” Recipient mares also need quality
care. “You plan what you are going to breed to and get excited about the crosses. But do not forget about those recipient mares,” he says. Their care while the foal is developing is important. “People who are the most suc-
cessful in marketing their foals give those babies the head start they need through their yearling year,” Ware says. “People can modify and adjust a
plan to fi t their operation and budget, but do not cut corners. I am not a vet or a nutritionist, but it is the most common thing I see. People depend on these colts to grow and develop into something of which they are proud. For that to happen, they have to have good care, and that is a mat- ter of feed and deworming. Make sure you have the best product you can raise.”
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