Breeding season for horses usually occurs in the spring. This makes winter a good time for breeders to plan for the upcoming season. Although people have many reasons for breeding a horse, there are ...

Horse breeding is a business full of rewards and disappointments. Breeders eagerly await the birth of a healthy foal, but they also understand the risk of abortion or of a mare not conceiving. To ...

Seventy rare-breed Icelandic horses and foals have been rescued in a 15-month welfare operation by animal charities. Public ...

For many horse owners, breeding is an opportunity to shape the next generation — whether by continuing a trusted mare’s legacy or raising a foal with carefully selected traits like ...

Each year, by November 30, every stallion owner must submit a stallion breeding report detailing all mares exposed to the stallion during that breeding season.  While it may feel like just another ...

The Bridgewater Stud in Hekpoort, owned and run by Garland Poil, has gone from strength to strength since its establishment ...

A horse that failed to fall pregnant became the centre of a dispute over who should pay for a service that yielded no foal.

Singing Winds Farm is working to preserve the legacy of America’s first horse breed, the Morgan horse, which traces its ...

Selecting a stallion to breed to your mare can be one of the most exciting parts of the breeding process. But with more and more stallions available to breeders, and extensively marketed, it can be a ...

A horse that failed to fall pregnant became the centre of a dispute over who should pay for a service that yielded no foal.

Fetal loss is a common phenomenon in domestic horses after away-mating, according to researchers. When mares return home after mating with a foreign stallion, they either engage in promiscuous mating ...