This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 7/14/2006 1:39:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My personal minimum age to breed is age 4...preferably age 5. * * * * * * Well Said Fred! I too prefer to wait till a mare is 4 before breeding her for the first time. I will admit that SOME mares may mature faster mentally and can be bred at 3 to foal as a 4 year old, but in most cases waiting is better. Like you I had a very bad experience with a filly accidentally being bred way too young (long ago when I was a kid), and we ended up losing the foal because the mare was very protective of it but refused to let it nurse. Fjord live nice long lives, there is plenty of time in a mare's life to have foals! I know of quite a number of Fjord mare in their 20's still having babies! Amy Amy Evers Dun Lookin' Fjords 260 May Creek Rd Days Creek, OR 97429 541-825-3303 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
