This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian,
You asked what gestation time we are looking at as "normal" for horses. We were using the 340-day gestation period. You know, the old "subtract 25 days from the last breeding date" formula. We seemed to find that, with Line at least, colts were consistently born 5 days to a week early while fillies were either "on time" or a week or so late. Anita Unrau put me on to this quirk of Line's when we bought her from them. It was something they had noticed, and I don't know if it was peculiar to her or is a trend in Fjords. Another aside on foaling - we found the Predict a Foal kits very useful once they came out. According to the records I kept, they predicted foaling within 6 to 8 hours. Pretty handy for us. == Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
