In my country we have horse breed called Kladruber horse and in the stud they start working with them after they are 3 years old they let them grow peacefuly too.
Most breeding facilities I visited keep horses in the fields untill they are 3 yo then they usually back them a little do a potential buyer can ride the horse walk trot canter and then if not sold they go back to a field untill they are 4 yo when they start serious work and competing.
4:44 What an amazing mare, I thought she was a stallion at first, carrying herself so beautifully and pridefully! and that top line! what an amazing mare.
I really respect the breeders who give their horses a really quality life. Lots of breeders keep their horses always indoors and start the babies in training very early. A horse should be able to experience life like a horse.
Taking foals away from nurse mares has been my pet peeve for many years. Thank God many famous breeding farms do embryo transfer. Great, informative video with gorgeous horses! Also thought that dark bay mare was a stallion, she is incredible!
There are now methods being used to bring older dry mares that were proven good mothers into lactation and grafting foals onto them. Once that becomes SOP, the method of removing foals from mares will disappear.
Horses these days are bred to be more athletic and fast than would be required in the wild. That means they need even more time to develop. So especially sport horses should be started after the age of 5 to not cause any long term damage.
3's still awfully young to start under saddle, even for "light" work, it's still carrying another extra 50 to 60kg on an immature skeleton, that's a lot of trauma that could be spared by just waiting a year or so longer at least.... I know I wouldn't start a horse until 4 and "real" work until 7, might take a lot of patience but you'll be grateful once your horse reaches 20 and can still healthly work with little to no arthritis, but that's just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I believe it depends on the breed as well? I raised a Connemara and they are slow to mature compared to some of the large sport horses. He didn’t look really filled out and grown till he was about 6.
@@elisehermann6094 yeah, friesians don't mature until 7, sometimes even later, with their comformation, riding them too early and/or too hard can be catastrophic in the long run...
Equestrian Edits they remove the fertilised egg so the mare who’s bloodline they want to continue isn’t actually pregnant for more than a few days. This solves the biggest difficulty in a humane way.
Have to say I was there, when an "embryo wash" was taking place at my stable. Never heard a horse scream like this before. Still gives me the chills. Idk if it was pain or not. At 5 1/2 months? This is a full fledged factory. Nothing more to say.
An embryo wash is done at about a week after breeding before the fertilized egg implants. Sounds like your "embryo wash" was a uterine flush being done after the mare aborted.
But to get a surrogate mare the mare has to have a foal already so she can produce milk, and most mares can’t fully support two foals properly, since milk is a finite resource in the mother, so a lot of times the original foal is taken away so the more expensive fancier foal can feed. And it doesn’t always work, since that baby won’t smell like her original baby and she might reject it. It’s just safer to do an embryo transfer so the surrogate can give birth to “her” baby and raise it, while also not leaving another baby without a mom
@@mageofdoomsie1598 they dont give an already born foal to a surrogate, they take the fertilised egg from the desired mother and place it in an unfertilised mare who then goes through the pregnancy. This keeps the original mare able to continue working while breeding.
SilverDirt Draws ohh no I’m not talking about that practice, I approve of that one too. There’s another practice going on where they just take mares who have already given birth to a foal and they take THAT foal away so the “better” foal can be raised and the original mom can keep showing or whatever. I know the process of putting a fertilized egg in another mare, which is much better than that.
Nice facilities for sport horses! But they are still babys at 3yo.. too young to start being ridden as they wont be fully developed until 5yo, I wonder if it would be possible to start riding at 4yo and just hand walk and lunging when they are 3? It is just a year so what is all the hurry?
Hai maam i have a lot of experincee of horses stables grooming traning riding speciallyty in marwari and kathaiwari horses i from india i have a job reuirement if you need helper for your farm please contuct me
I love how they let the horses grow up before they start training. Something you don’t see much now, sadly. Hope they keep up the good work!
In my country we have horse breed called Kladruber horse and in the stud they start working with them after they are 3 years old they let them grow peacefuly too.
We start our colts at 2, but after 20-30 days we let them grow, we do this because at 2 they are more open to learning, and we breed quarter horses
Actually this is a very very common thing
Most breeding facilities I visited keep horses in the fields untill they are 3 yo then they usually back them a little do a potential buyer can ride the horse walk trot canter and then if not sold they go back to a field untill they are 4 yo when they start serious work and competing.
4:44 What an amazing mare, I thought she was a stallion at first, carrying herself so beautifully and pridefully! and that top line! what an amazing mare.
Same 😌
This was brilliant to watch! Very inspiring being both a vet student and aspiring breeder ☺️
Holly Lenahan Good to see you here Holly!
Omg hi, I love your channel ❤️❤️
I really respect the breeders who give their horses a really quality life. Lots of breeders keep their horses always indoors and start the babies in training very early. A horse should be able to experience life like a horse.
I think you'd like the movie SeaBiscut
Atleast transfering embrios is more humane than taking away a nurse mares foal so she can feed a more expensive foal
Taking foals away from nurse mares has been my pet peeve for many years. Thank God many famous breeding farms do embryo transfer. Great, informative video with gorgeous horses! Also thought that dark bay mare was a stallion, she is incredible!
There are now methods being used to bring older dry mares that were proven good mothers into lactation and grafting foals onto them. Once that becomes SOP, the method of removing foals from mares will disappear.
Very cool! I have never seen the process of embryo transfer before. Very educational.
Horses these days are bred to be more athletic and fast than would be required in the wild. That means they need even more time to develop. So especially sport horses should be started after the age of 5 to not cause any long term damage.
not actually true. You can start as young as three with out causing any issues. theres a different between starting and heavy training
TheNonMakeupGuru . Yeah I agree but too many people don’t start light.
And I feel like the horse needs to mentally mature as well.
3's still awfully young to start under saddle, even for "light" work, it's still carrying another extra 50 to 60kg on an immature skeleton, that's a lot of trauma that could be spared by just waiting a year or so longer at least.... I know I wouldn't start a horse until 4 and "real" work until 7, might take a lot of patience but you'll be grateful once your horse reaches 20 and can still healthly work with little to no arthritis, but that's just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I believe it depends on the breed as well? I raised a Connemara and they are slow to mature compared to some of the large sport horses. He didn’t look really filled out and grown till he was about 6.
@@elisehermann6094 yeah, friesians don't mature until 7, sometimes even later, with their comformation, riding them too early and/or too hard can be catastrophic in the long run...
remember kids, secretariat happened bc a woman knew that the mare mattered too
Beautiful process they got going on here
So they take the baby out with an embryo flush? I’m confused
Thanks to everyone who helped me understand!
Equestrian Edits they remove the fertilised egg so the mare who’s bloodline they want to continue isn’t actually pregnant for more than a few days. This solves the biggest difficulty in a humane way.
Gertrúd Udvaros where does the fertilized egg go?
@@josiebelle9167 They put the embryo in another mare who isn't pregnant, she then carries and raises the foal as a surrogate mother.
Yes, they have brood mares that gets pregnant, the mare isn’t pregnant so she can continue to work instead :)
@@trinefj11 Very cool :)
Foals are soooo cute!
Very educational 👏👏
You’re posting a nice run of subjects
What a neat video, thank you for the insight!
wow that's so interesting! really creative idea!
The little foal was so cute
Have to say I was there, when an "embryo wash" was taking place at my stable. Never heard a horse scream like this before. Still gives me the chills. Idk if it was pain or not. At 5 1/2 months? This is a full fledged factory. Nothing more to say.
I'm a idiot so would you mind telling me what a embryo wash is?
It was done extremely incorrectly and probably too late, then. Embryo flushes should NEVER cause pain. It’s basically like a douche.
@@sarahm3295 thanks for the info, didn't think of that
An embryo wash is done at about a week after breeding before the fertilized egg implants. Sounds like your "embryo wash" was a uterine flush being done after the mare aborted.
@@DoubleDogDare54 could you explain that to me please?
This is a lovely way of breeding
artificial insemination? Its about as far from lovely as it gets.
Wow, Emma's cute!
Wow brilliant video
You are a fine strong Mare yourself Emma
I liked this 👍
Very interesting.
This is so inspiring
Breeding interest me so much, I really want to be a English mule breeder
That guy sounds like James Blunt *_*
Very cool to watch but you can compete and breed your mares you just have to use a Sergeant mother
Does she drill the foals to prepare them for future competitions whilst mama is out there doing St Georges ?
I think you mean "surrogate". And that's what they're doing.
But to get a surrogate mare the mare has to have a foal already so she can produce milk, and most mares can’t fully support two foals properly, since milk is a finite resource in the mother, so a lot of times the original foal is taken away so the more expensive fancier foal can feed. And it doesn’t always work, since that baby won’t smell like her original baby and she might reject it. It’s just safer to do an embryo transfer so the surrogate can give birth to “her” baby and raise it, while also not leaving another baby without a mom
@@mageofdoomsie1598 they dont give an already born foal to a surrogate, they take the fertilised egg from the desired mother and place it in an unfertilised mare who then goes through the pregnancy.
This keeps the original mare able to continue working while breeding.
SilverDirt Draws ohh no I’m not talking about that practice, I approve of that one too. There’s another practice going on where they just take mares who have already given birth to a foal and they take THAT foal away so the “better” foal can be raised and the original mom can keep showing or whatever. I know the process of putting a fertilized egg in another mare, which is much better than that.
Nice facilities for sport horses! But they are still babys at 3yo.. too young to start being ridden as they wont be fully developed until 5yo, I wonder if it would be possible to start riding at 4yo and just hand walk and lunging when they are 3? It is just a year so what is all the hurry?
not at all. starting in the backing process isnt riding them. you'll find they wont actually be ridden until four
Please I AM Spanish native speaker, it would help uf you show the writing of what You Say, as others do.
Hai maam i have a lot of experincee of horses stables grooming traning riding speciallyty in marwari and kathaiwari horses i from india i have a job reuirement if you need helper for your farm please contuct me
It is not Holland it is The Netherland
Six of one, half dozen of the other. I'm Dutch on both sides of my family. We always call the country "Holland". Deal with it.
There's too much money in the world.
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Poor horses
Poor idiot