awww. so little, so skittish, but trying to cope with all the scary new things. I love that they let them explore their surroundings on their own, without putting pressure on them and also the way they try to get them to bond with humans and getting them used to be touched and how to behave around people. It's so simple, yet so rare... Gosh I would love to work on a farm like this one...
I'm so sorry.for your loss. I should say our loss..Skeletor is a beautiful boy'..so soft and kind. RIP beautiful boy. At least you knew love and happiness and kindness. We love you boy!❤🌌✨
GOD BLESS YOU GUYS FOR HAVING COMPASSION FOR THESE LITTLE GUYS! I HOPE YOU FIND PEOPLE WHO CAN APPRECIATE THESE FOALS AND GIVE THEM ALL THE LOVE THEY DESERVE! THESE PEOPLE THAT ABUSE HORSES OUGHT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!
Poor babies had such a hard start. But I do love how each of them has a different personality. Like the twin looking ones are all gung-ho about getting out of the box. The dark brown one is more cautious and the white one is like 'Wait!' and is kind of clumsy but reckless. Sweet little babies. I hope you took good care of them.
🌎💔💔🇦🇷.Felicito de todo corazón a estas hermosas Damas, por el amor, cariño, ternura conque tratan a estos bellos -indefensos Potrillitos🐎. Se nota su tristeza en los ojitos y su cabecita gacha que les falta su madre, pero Ustedes, queridas Damas, hacen todo lo más hermoso para renovar su vida💕💕💕.FELICIDAD, ANHELO TENER TODOS LOS VÍDEOS POSIBLE-- SON MI LOCURA Y PASIÓN LOS EQUINOS CHQUITOS Y GRANDES.💞💚💞❤🐎💚
the invisible space for ground manners are essential. Many years ago I raised a foal of four months to a year or so. She was taught to respect one's space,no shoving,bumping, slamming, no no no. lol. then the training gets more involved. Owning a horse is like raising another child who just gets WAY bigger than you. I love this stuff ")
"pony skins"??? NO!!! Heartbreaking ! I did not know that was part of this horrible industry. I did know about the discarded foals. Thanks for educating those who will listen
It's impressive what patience can do with horses. These orphaned foals are being trained to behave gently. Once again I notice here as on many videos. the gentlest and most patient people involved with these foals are women. Guys can do it too but they're kinda rare.
bearhat19 If they're thoroughbred foals (didn't watch the whole video) the white could be considered a legitimate white horse as white thoroughbreds are specifically bred to be white sometimes
To see what goes on in America n how cruel you are with gods gift to man kind !!!! I would not come to your country !!!!!!! Then to see you amazing people ,and what you do!!!! for these wonderful foals n horses !!! Good on you !!!! God gave us the horse, so we could fly with out wings . Wish I could help you !
I'm pretty sure that there are cruelties in all countries, your country is not without fault. A compliment isn't quite as sincere when it's preceded by an insult.
rescuing, training and re-homing nurse mare foals and PMU foals is something I would like to get involved in when I have my center built. Just starting to raise funds for the Equine Education center now. Wish I were closer to the finish line...It's so hard to be patient! I want to start now!
You said these were orphaned, so who was the mama and her baby? Also, I've been in the animal rescue community for awhile (mostly urban animals though) and had never heard of this awful practice. Thank you for enlightening me and caring for these babies. I find myself speechless trying to find sense in seperating a foal from a mare, then sending the foal to a feedlot. I just want to vomit, or cry, maybe both.Thank you for fighting the good fight. I will definitely be looking into what I can do from my end.
Hi Sabrina. We also managed to rescue a couple of mares with their foals but most of the rescued were just foals. The practice mostly happens in high cost, high stakes breeding industries like horse racing. Anna hadn't heard of it for the first 25 years of being in the horse training world. It is not a widely known or publicized practice but unfortunately it exists.
Are these the babies that are orphaned because there mothers are impregnated for their urine? The urine is used for a prescriptioned estrogen for women. If so, this is beyond tragic. The mares are kept pregnant and once the foals are born they are taken away from their mothers.
When introduced to milk replacer one can do that in a bucket and show them how to drink. And so the nutrients are received without having to bottle feed.
to explain in simple terms the 5 to 7-minute mark, Horses have a higher archy. Mommas are top of the pecking order while their foals are the bottom. Because these little foals have no mother to teach them herd dynamics, it is up to their handlers to take on the roles of a top horse or the "boss" position. this is the bases that begins the work in ground manners.
I believe a nurse mare is a mare that is put in foal and have her foal, then the foal is taken off her and sometimes slaughtered, the mare is used to rear expensive thoroughbred foals that have lost their mothers in the foaling. P S. I mean the mother of the thoroughbred foal has died in the foaling. This can happen I believe in about 15 per cent of cases. The unfortunates are these baby foals that are cast away as useless. Let me put it another way, say a thoroughbred foal with a stud fee of 10,000 guineas or pounds looses it's mother, they will try to save this foal with the nurse mother instead of her own foal costing maybe 100 pounds. This also happens in Ireland, the nurse mare usually a cob type mare is then hired to you for the season for 1000 pounds, and you have to put her in foal again , any stallion will do, these people are only INTERESTED in the value the mare Brings when she is hired out to rear an orphaned foal. Normally the real foal of the mare is Distroy ed, or as you see dumped for some rescue farm to help. These foals are not microchip pedal they are too young so when this sort of thing happens,it is almost impossible to know who owns these foals. To take a prosecution to court you have to absolute proof of ownership, in these cases it is almost impossible to find the true owner. I hope this a sort of clarifys what a nurse mare is, and if I am wrong I stand to be corrected. Thank you for reading, God Bless you all out there that does such good work with these orphaned baby foals. Greetings from North Ireland.
When this program started in Kentucky and Tennessee, Thoroughbred country USA most of the nurse mares put in the original program were selected for bloodlines, quality and temperament. The were bred about 4-5 months earlier than the usual breeding season. These foals are then weaned at 4 months as needed. When the wet mare is called for, the new foal is grafted to her. The owner of the nurse mare gets the breeding of a quality stallion at a free or greatly reduced price. So the foals are not exactly waste material as you suggest. If you are doing this some other way in the UK shame on you! If you are speaking out of school, shame on you.If your breeding program is loosing 15% of the mares in foaling out something is WRONG!
+gmwwc I cannot tell you what happens in Kentuckey I can only talk about what happens in Ireland. I know it is very difficult to get a mare to come in to season very early The times I mare usually comes into season is February, that would mean she would carry a January foal, A foal becomes a yearling on the list January of the year of its birth. Now a foal born on the 30th Dec.2016, would be yearling on 1st January 2017, although it is technically only 1 day old. The mare that has reared a foal to four months old it's milk would not be much use to a new born foal as their would not be any antibodies in the milk. I hope everything you are saying is the truth and these other baby foals are weaned properly. I Sometimes a mare that has lost her foal (born dead) can be advertised as a nurse mare, but it can be very difficult to get these mares to nurse a strange foal. I know this for a fact, I have helped many times in this process and it is not easy, especially wit the highly bred mares, It is much easier with the heavier type cob mares for nurse mares. Some tips if this helps, is to take the milk from the mare and put it over the foal that is to be taken, so me times put sugar on th foals back to get th Mare to bond with it. I have even seen the skin of the dead foal put over the living foal, to get the nurse mare to except it. It does help if you can put the smell of the dead foal unto the living foal, even urine of the dead foal. I hope this will help som eone out there. I appreciate your reply and keep in touch with me, if you find out more information about this scheme It is very interesting. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
Winifred Thompson, OK my computer skills stink but I am going to take another shot at a reply. I am impressed and a bit mortified at your answer, but delighted to get it. It has been a good many years since I first read about the nurse mare program. I fell out of love with the TB race industry as a whole. There are too darned many babies being ruined or destroyed. so I have not followed this program for decades. Sadly in a business where the horses welfare takes a back seat to $$$ it may well have changed even here. Please understand, I live in Texas which is a good distance from the heart of our TB breeding farms. We do raise a few horses here and TBs being the consummate athlete feature in our breeding programs I will tell you a little mor of what I recall of our program in the hope that you can be a voice for change. The mares are stimulated to come into Estrus (breeding heat) by the number of daylight hours hitting the retina of the eye. In the wild this would be at about the Spring Equinox (about March 20 in the Northern hemisphere).A mare that settled in say April would foal the following March with the warm grass season ahead. So if you can get 12 good hours of light on your mare for at least a month before you plan to breed she will cycle. You can do this by keeping her on pasture in the day and a well lit barn for part of the night. And she will cooperate and be pregnant on time. (Mankind and their darned time tables!) There is another way that is simpler. Give the mare a Regumate shot and breed her in 10 days. This works so well it is almost weird. You are not going to get the very top top stallions. These are resting up for the February breeding season. But his brother or nephew is available.. Your prize race horse mares are going to foal out in January. And some will be lost in foaling or may reject a foal. To replace that colostrum (the antibody rich first milk) we have been using several products that either mimic or are made from colostrum. You can google that and get a ton of information. No foaling barn worth it’s salt would be without this stuff on hand. A foaling barn has to participate in this program to have access to the nurse mares. To participate they have to either pay or provide breeding for the nurse mares. Let’s say we have a real nice QH mare that is a great mare but a little shy in the speed department. The owner can get that mare bred to a real good speed horse for little to nothing. That owner must be prepared to turn the mare over at the necessary time. That baby had it’s colostrum but it needs a momma and no race horse barn wants a slow plodding mare to raise a baby that should grow up to set the turf on fire. The people who actually graft these foals have a lot of “tricks of the trade” and they do not give them up easily but I know of a few. First you want good mommas that tend to fuss over their babies. You want that baby crying when the mare pulls up in the trailer. A bottle of cheap perfume or even those scented sheets used in the dryer to make your laundry smell like a ???? will do to rub the mare’s nose and the foal’s flank shoulder and butt and you can usually just watch nature take over. Sometimes you may have to restrain the mare once or twice to let the foal nurse but often all it takes is to leave them alone for a bit.
Winifred Thompson from what i know, most nurse mares from the race industry are used for when the TB dam must be rebred. In order fir the foal to race, it must be bred using live cover. The dam is shipped to the stud, bred, then sent home. Simple. Except the foal can't go with her. And the mare may be away for weeks. The solution? A nurse mare raises the foal, the mare is rebred and prepped for next foaling season, and the foal is weaned and their training starts a few months after. By the time the dam foals again, the baby is out on the track bringing in the $$$. Everything starts again. So there's the root of the problem in the TBs, Live Cover. If they used AI, the mare would stay put and raise her baby, eliminating the nurse mare and the foals that are the byproduct of her milk.
Unfortunately we don't have an update on each individual foal. They were left in the capable and kind hands of Ray of Light Farm in CT. Many, if not all were adopted to good homes and the ones that weren't remain well cared for in a special, beautiful farm. Although we may not be able to keep track of every foal we have a hand in saving, we don't leave them behind. We make sure they have a chance at a bright future. A second chance.
It’s heartbreaking that these BABIES didn’t get even a minute of their lives to just be horses. We can’t teach them horse, only another horse can do that. Sad.
Think of a nurse-mare as a wet-nurse. When a mare has a foal they aren't able to be used to their full potential for 2 years. Because of this , greedy owners will breed his "good mare" (mare A) and at the exact same time as the nurse mare (mare B) to foal days before mare A. Once mare A's foal is born, it will be given to the nurse mare. Mare B's foal is sent "somewhere else". Nurse mares are generally cheap and well-proven breeders. When I was much younger I witnessed part of the process, I was too young to quite understand what exactly was going on and naively trusted the owners when I asked what happened to the nurse mare's baby when they answered that they sold him. As an adult I am mortified that I had any part of it and can't believe that I was so blind.
That is not how it is done. When this program started in Kentucky and Tennessee, Thoroughbred country USA, most of the nurse mares put in the original program were selected for bloodlines, quality and temperament. They were bred about 4-5 months earlier than the usual breeding season. These foals are then weaned at 4 months as needed. When the wet mare is called for, the new foal is grafted to her. The owner of the nurse mare gets the breeding of a quality stallion at a free or greatly reduced price. So the foals are not exactly waste
gmwwc That is just how I've seen it done at the barn where I was at. If it is done differently in other parts of the country I'm unaware of them. Either way, it's a horrible thing to do. When I say "much younger" I mean I was 20, not that I was 12. now I'm just not as oblivious and naive as I was before. I just didn't want to believe what was happening until the colt was sent away. I actually had to have it explained to me because I believed a horse lover loved ALL horses.
@@gmwwc In this video, the foals are pretty young, so you might have been lucky enough to observe a "better" way of handling this stupid human made situation.
That little white colt has little bit of a curve to his upper ear. Could he have some Marwari in him? I'm doubting myself a little because that breed of horse is really valuable from what I've heard.
+Lisa Plambeck These guys were all gentled in 2013. Not sure if any are available for adoption but you can contact Ray of Light Farm in East Haddam, CT. to get more information. www.rayoflightfarm.org/
From the website : Snow Nurse Mare Foal Rescue - Snow's mother was sent to take care of another more expensive foal so that foal's mother could be bred again. Snow was left with no mom. A lot of the nurse foals do not survive.
Baby-boomer369 Their dams (moms) are nurse mares. Nurse mares are bred for their milk, once their baby is born it is taken away and the mare is (usually) given an expensive thoroughbred foal to rear. The dam of the thoroughbred foal in most cases still alive but it is not allowed to care for her foal as she will be bred again as soon as possible to produce the most amount of offspring. The nurse mare's foal is either killed, auctioned, starved, or sent off to a, what I call, foal barn where they are care for with a herd of other little nurse mare foals to be adopted by the public.
+CPC ANIMAL house Unfortunately a little known industry, nurse foals, creates these foals. Mares are impregnated so they can become nursing mares for "more valuable" foals and their mothers can be bred sooner. These guys are the original foals of the nurse mares and are usually killed or left to die. We were lucky enough to rescue them before that gruesome fate.
+ReachOutToHorses Thank you for clarifying that position for me, that is what I stated happened earlier in my comment above, I kow this happens in Ireland. Cob mares bred to be nurse mares if required. They are hired out at 1000 pounds and the person in receipt has to put the mare in foal again. There own foals are usually Distroyed . I k now this happens, It is something that is not talked about. There are times when a mare has lost her foal at birth or naturally and she has been used as a nurse mare. But this is a different thing entirely. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
Hola, Argelia! Al principio creamos una separacion en la misma area, donde el hijo no puede amamantar por la cerca. Y puede empezar con una o dos horas a la vez. Cada dia aumentamos el tiempo separados y, despues de un rato, (un mes mas o menos) podemos aumentar la distancia tambien. Lo mas importante es que lo hacemos poco a poco para que no les dieran demasiado estres. Quieren dar de comer al nino y a la madre cuando esten separados tambien, porque estamos estimulando al nino comer sacate en vez de amamantar.
Erica lastnema All foals are born with curly ear tips, they straighten out after a while, usually a few days which sickens me even more because some do have the curly ear tips which means they are just a few days old and already motherless, sucks ...
You ever been in contact with Jini who has the channel “Listen to your horse”? Maybe you could exchange ideas since you have the same mindset about horses and their choices. ruclips.net/user/ListenToYourHorse1st
If you peep at the title, you'll see the babies were orphaned ;;w;; I'm not the maker of the video but I thought I'd come in before some jerk comes in kicking and screaming
Claire bacchi they are nurse mare or junk foals, so their damage is bred then the resulting foal is immediately taken from mom so she can raise a thourabred foal.
For Jo Relian , Don't judge all of the United States by a few. There are caring and uncaring people in all countries. A great majority of people really do have compassion for God's children. Animal or human. Sadly there are greedy people too. People who have love for nothing but money and what happiness they "THINK"it can buy. Thank God, whoever you choose to believe he is, that there are people who do care and are in a position to help.
A good friend of mine has been struggling, fighting, and working her hardest to bring her new family member home. She almost lost her earlier in the year and needs help. Please, help this young lady bring home family www.gofundme.com/472u4ywg
I understand where your coming from I own horses too and a wear a helmet when I ride. But I think when your just walking around it not necessary. I can read my horses body language really well and I know not to approach my horse from the back or front or she might spook. I also talk to her as I approach her so she can hear me and know where I am. I don't what to seam rude but I just don't think you need to ware a helmet when your just leading around your horse. If you are in a unsafe situation that you did not see before hand its always a good rule to be in a position where you can easily get away, such as picking out a hoof or loading a horse in a trailer. If you know where its safe then a helmet should not be necessary. Always be prepared to calmly get away so you and your horse can stay safe.
Hi Ella. We too believe helmets are a good idea as you never know what might happen, and things can go wrong very quickly, especially in an unfamiliar environment and with horses you don't know. These are not our horses, but rescued foals. However, truth be told, this is a clinic, and regardless of what some may think about the value, necessity, or lack there of, of helmets, our liability insurance company has a very specific philosophy when it comes to our events and participants wearing helmets. Either participants where helmets or they won't cover our events. So... we wear helmets. :) But more importantly, I think it is more impressive to be able to teach complete novices how to compassionately and kindly gentle rescue orphaned foals in less than a week. It is very rewarding and a lot of fun, and we are erasing these foals first horrible impressions of humans and replacing them with very positive experiences, regardless if folks are wearing helmets or not. :)
that does not happen in New Zealand!!!!!! yes there is cruel shit that goes on here!! we are a small country we have our faults! Oh not like America!! and these big country's That n the rodeos! and the night stepping horses!! cruel! fox fur! I can go on!!! I won't !! The world needs to understand that it can't go on like this. Something's going to give!
Get over your NOT LIKE AMERICA! This is not a USA thing. read the comments I have detailed above.Also, these are not ugly little scrub foals so there is a LOT that this ROTH organization is NOT TELLING YOU....
So Little . Evil Greedy people😢never ceases to amaze me. Thank you for rescuing them💗💓
awww. so little, so skittish, but trying to cope with all the scary new things.
I love that they let them explore their surroundings on their own, without putting pressure on them and also the way they try to get them to bond with humans and getting them used to be touched and how to behave around people. It's so simple, yet so rare... Gosh I would love to work on a farm like this one...
I'm so sorry.for your loss. I should say our loss..Skeletor is a beautiful boy'..so soft and kind. RIP beautiful boy. At least you knew love and happiness and kindness. We love you boy!❤🌌✨
i wonder what those horses look like now. As foals they look gorgeous.
A number of them got adopted through our Reach Out to Horses Program and we stay updated on their lifes progress
My thoughts exactly...3 years after your comment! God love em. ❤️
Thanks so much helping these little babys
These babies came from mother Builder this country back when the Gold Rush the men use house for pack hourse to lead the way to Riches
GOD BLESS YOU GUYS FOR HAVING COMPASSION FOR THESE LITTLE GUYS! I HOPE YOU FIND PEOPLE WHO CAN APPRECIATE THESE FOALS AND GIVE THEM ALL THE LOVE THEY DESERVE! THESE PEOPLE THAT ABUSE HORSES OUGHT TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!!
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Poor babies had such a hard start.
But I do love how each of them has a different personality. Like the twin looking ones are all gung-ho about getting out of the box. The dark brown one is more cautious and the white one is like 'Wait!' and is kind of clumsy but reckless. Sweet little babies. I hope you took good care of them.
Thank,,you,,fot,,helping,,all,,the,,beautiful,,,horses,,and,,baby's...your,,the,,best 😎😁😎😍😙🙄😄😊
Every time I see this video and the AMAZING people helping these innocent creatures, I'm overcome with emotion! Blessings to all of you!!!
Thank you!
Thanks for the amazing work you do for these foals
Beautiful Horses. Animals are a gift, from the Good Lord Jesus.
🌎💔💔🇦🇷.Felicito de todo corazón a estas hermosas Damas, por el amor, cariño, ternura conque tratan a estos bellos -indefensos Potrillitos🐎. Se nota su tristeza en los ojitos y su cabecita gacha que les falta su madre, pero Ustedes, queridas Damas, hacen todo lo más hermoso para renovar su vida💕💕💕.FELICIDAD, ANHELO TENER TODOS LOS VÍDEOS POSIBLE-- SON MI LOCURA Y PASIÓN LOS EQUINOS CHQUITOS Y GRANDES.💞💚💞❤🐎💚
I just love all horses. Especially, the babies.
the invisible space for ground manners are essential. Many years ago I raised a foal of four months to a year or so. She was taught to respect one's space,no shoving,bumping, slamming, no no no. lol.
then the training gets more involved. Owning a horse is like raising another child who just gets WAY bigger than you.
I love this stuff ")
Oh heavens! I just found out what a nurse mare is and it saddens me so greatly! The work you do is amazing and thank you so much for doing it.
I would LOVE TO HAVE AT LEAST 2 or 3 of them! I have loved horses all my life and have ALWAYS WANTED ONE!
Loving horses and knowing horses, is very different.
You can love as much as you want, but without knowledge, you can do more harm than good.
Hermosos bb.♥️Bienvenidos! y muchas gracias a los que los protegen.♥️🐎♥️
They're so adorable!!! It's beautiful to see them whinnying to each other in their own little mini herd. So precious :')
that foal with the blanket looks gorgeous
I use a pallet covered with plywood for them to easily step up and step down. It works great with a double you could use 2.😊😍😊
The foals were gorgeous! I love the speckled mother with the brown foal nearing the wend when you were 'chain grooming' =3
"pony skins"??? NO!!! Heartbreaking ! I did not know that was part of this horrible industry. I did know about the discarded foals. Thanks for educating those who will listen
My iron heart just melted! Awww, so cute, I want all of them!
Such pretty babies.
It's impressive what patience can do with horses. These orphaned foals are being trained to behave gently. Once again I notice here as on many videos. the gentlest and most patient people involved with these foals are women. Guys can do it too but they're kinda rare.
Awww they are so precious!
Awww the foals look so sweet
Bless you for what you do.
I just LOVED watching this!
They are all gorgeous, my favourite is the Appaloosa and pure white/light grey one
Agree 110%
bearhat19 If they're thoroughbred foals (didn't watch the whole video) the white could be considered a legitimate white horse as white thoroughbreds are specifically bred to be white sometimes
To see what goes on in America n how cruel you are with gods gift to man kind !!!! I would not come to your country !!!!!!! Then to see you amazing people ,and what you do!!!! for these wonderful foals n horses !!! Good on you !!!! God gave us the horse, so we could fly with out wings . Wish I could help you !
I'm pretty sure that there are cruelties in all countries, your country is not without fault. A compliment isn't quite as sincere when it's preceded by an insult.
Haha. The comment above you was in the UK, and they were talking about how its done there!!!
Jo Relian It goes on all over the world, another example of what people will do for money.
I hope my dream comes true to have my own farm with this gorgeous animals and yes I have a few experiences with horses ❤️❤️❤️❤️😍😍
Bitty Kitty. Thanks for the FYI! I love all animals.
they are gorgeous.
Beautiful
Stunning and beautiful.
rescuing, training and re-homing nurse mare foals and PMU foals is something I would like to get involved in when I have my center built. Just starting to raise funds for the Equine Education center now. Wish I were closer to the finish line...It's so hard to be patient! I want to start now!
colleen campbell are you there yet?
Let us know when you are close to the finish line.
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I would take any one of them. :-) The cuteness fix!
They are so adorable
I wish so much was known about horse behavior/psychology when I was growing up around them.
i would so so love to do this one day, theyre so gorgeous poor foalys aw
omg the wee small white one is the cutest
They're so FLUFFY 😍
Good job ladies...
Ohhh just beauties! ❤️❤️❤️
I like all of them .
You said these were orphaned, so who was the mama and her baby?
Also, I've been in the animal rescue community for awhile (mostly urban animals though) and had never heard of this awful practice. Thank you for enlightening me and caring for these babies. I find myself speechless trying to find sense in seperating a foal from a mare, then sending the foal to a feedlot. I just want to vomit, or cry, maybe both.Thank you for fighting the good fight. I will definitely be looking into what I can do from my end.
Hi Sabrina. We also managed to rescue a couple of mares with their foals but most of the rescued were just foals. The practice mostly happens in high cost, high stakes breeding industries like horse racing. Anna hadn't heard of it for the first 25 years of being in the horse training world. It is not a widely known or publicized practice but unfortunately it exists.
im shocked, id never heard of this practice till now. I wonder if its a world wide thing or not.
@@tanyabrown9839 Would be aloud to go on in the UK only in the usa
@@johnholdstock8922 www.ukbettingsites.com/articles/major-horse-races-in-the-uk.html it goes on in the uk.
Awwwww theyre so cute :3 🐎🐎🐎
Are these the babies that are orphaned because there mothers are impregnated for their urine? The urine is used for a prescriptioned estrogen for women. If so, this is beyond tragic. The mares are kept pregnant and once the foals are born they are taken away from their mothers.
Some of the foals we help are from the Premarin industry, others are left orphaned for other reasons.
OMG they're so ADORABLE!!!! WHY would anybody want to cast them aside as worthless?
It's all about money!
"Snow" as he is fondly known as has an Appaloosa father - unsure of his mother's breed.
TOO CUTE 🥰🥰🥰🥰
So cute!!!
How did the foals become orphans? What's the story on that?
Maybe I just don't get it, but where are the mommas to these beautiful baby's?
Their orphans. The moms are most likely dead.
wonderful
The nurse mare foals that are taken away from don't they need to be bottle fed like the bottle calves? If not bottle fed , how are they fed?
When introduced to milk replacer one can do that in a bucket and show them how to drink. And so the nutrients are received without having to bottle feed.
How can foals learn from other foals? Do you put an uncle or aunt horse in among them to teach?
to explain in simple terms the 5 to 7-minute mark, Horses have a higher archy. Mommas are top of the pecking order while their foals are the bottom. Because these little foals have no mother to teach them herd dynamics, it is up to their handlers to take on the roles of a top horse or the "boss" position. this is the bases that begins the work in ground manners.
I like that brown one with the white spots.
I love how suspiciously the babies eyeball the camera, just priceless XD
Where are four foals' moms are? I notice the white foal afraid and hope he's ok by now and how old are they right now? Ready riding yet?
I believe a nurse mare is a mare that is put in foal and have her foal, then the foal is taken off her and sometimes slaughtered, the mare is used to rear expensive thoroughbred foals that have lost their mothers in the foaling. P S. I mean the mother of the thoroughbred foal has died in the foaling. This can happen I believe in about 15 per cent of cases. The unfortunates are these baby foals that are cast away as useless. Let me put it another way, say a thoroughbred foal with a stud fee of 10,000 guineas or pounds looses it's mother, they will try to save this foal with the nurse mother instead of her own foal costing maybe 100 pounds. This also happens in Ireland, the nurse mare usually a cob type mare is then hired to you for the season for 1000 pounds, and you have to put her in foal again , any stallion will do, these people are only INTERESTED in the value the mare Brings when she is hired out to rear an orphaned foal. Normally the real foal of the mare is Distroy ed, or as you see dumped for some rescue farm to help. These foals are not microchip pedal they are too young so when this sort of thing happens,it is almost impossible to know who owns these foals. To take a prosecution to court you have to absolute proof of ownership, in these cases it is almost impossible to find the true owner. I hope this a sort of clarifys what a nurse mare is, and if I am wrong I stand to be corrected. Thank you for reading, God Bless you all out there that does such good work with these orphaned baby foals. Greetings from North Ireland.
When this program started in Kentucky and Tennessee, Thoroughbred country USA most of the nurse mares put in the original program were selected for bloodlines, quality and temperament. The were bred about 4-5 months earlier than the usual breeding season. These foals are then weaned at 4 months as needed. When the wet mare is called for, the new foal is grafted to her. The owner of the nurse mare gets the breeding of a quality stallion at a free or greatly reduced price. So the foals are not exactly waste material as you suggest. If you are doing this some other way in the UK shame on you! If you are speaking out of school, shame on you.If your breeding program is loosing 15% of the mares in foaling out something is WRONG!
+gmwwc I cannot tell you what happens in Kentuckey I can only talk about what happens in Ireland. I know it is very difficult to get a mare to come in to season very early The times I mare usually comes into season is February, that would mean she would carry a January foal, A foal becomes a yearling on the list January of the year of its birth. Now a foal born on the 30th Dec.2016, would be yearling on 1st January 2017, although it is technically only 1 day old. The mare that has reared a foal to four months old it's milk would not be much use to a new born foal as their would not be any antibodies in the milk.
I hope everything you are saying is the truth and these other baby foals are weaned properly. I
Sometimes a mare that has lost her foal (born dead) can be advertised as a nurse mare, but it can be very difficult to get these mares to nurse a strange foal. I know this for a fact, I have helped many times in this process and it is not easy, especially wit the highly bred mares, It is much easier with the heavier type cob mares for nurse mares.
Some tips if this helps, is to take the milk from the mare and put it over the foal that is to be taken, so me times put sugar on th foals back to get th Mare to bond with it. I have even seen the skin of the dead foal put over the living foal, to get the nurse mare to except it. It does help if you can put the smell of the dead foal unto the living foal, even urine of the dead foal.
I hope this will help som eone out there.
I appreciate your reply and keep in touch with me, if you find out more information about this scheme It is very interesting.
Greetings from Northern Ireland.
Winifred Thompson,
OK my computer skills stink but I am going to take another shot at a reply.
I am impressed and a bit mortified at your answer, but delighted to get it.
It has been a good many years since I first read about the nurse mare program. I fell out of love with the TB race industry as a whole. There are too darned many babies being ruined or destroyed. so I have not followed this program for decades. Sadly in a business where the horses welfare takes a back seat to $$$ it may well have changed even here.
Please understand, I live in Texas which is a good distance from the heart of our TB breeding farms. We do raise a few horses here and TBs being the consummate athlete feature in our breeding programs
I will tell you a little mor of what I recall of our program in the hope that you can be a voice for change.
The mares are stimulated to come into Estrus (breeding heat) by the number of daylight hours hitting the retina of the eye. In the wild this would be at about the Spring Equinox (about March 20 in the Northern hemisphere).A mare that settled in say April would foal the following March with the warm grass season ahead.
So if you can get 12 good hours of light on your mare for at least a month before you plan to breed she will cycle. You can do this by keeping her on pasture in the day and a well lit barn for part of the night. And she will cooperate and be pregnant on time. (Mankind and their darned time tables!)
There is another way that is simpler. Give the mare a Regumate shot and breed her in 10 days. This works so well it is almost weird.
You are not going to get the very top top stallions. These are resting up for the February breeding season. But his brother or nephew is available..
Your prize race horse mares are going to foal out in January. And some will be lost in foaling or may reject a foal. To replace that colostrum (the antibody rich first milk) we have been using several products that either mimic or are made from colostrum. You can google that and get a ton of information. No foaling barn worth it’s salt would be without this stuff on hand.
A foaling barn has to participate in this program to have access to the nurse mares. To participate they have to either pay or provide breeding for the nurse mares. Let’s say we have a real nice QH mare that is a great mare but a little shy in the speed department. The owner can get that mare bred to a real good speed horse for little to nothing. That owner must be prepared to turn the mare over at the necessary time. That baby had it’s colostrum but it needs a momma and no race horse barn wants a slow plodding mare to raise a baby that should grow up to set the turf on fire.
The people who actually graft these foals have a lot of “tricks of the trade” and they do not give them up easily but I know of a few. First you want good mommas that tend to fuss over their babies. You want that baby crying when the mare pulls up in the trailer. A bottle of cheap perfume or even those scented sheets used in the dryer to make your laundry smell like a ???? will do to rub the mare’s nose and the foal’s flank shoulder and butt and you can usually just watch nature take over. Sometimes you may have to restrain the mare once or twice to let the foal nurse but often all it takes is to leave them alone for a bit.
Winifred Thompson from what i know, most nurse mares from the race industry are used for when the TB dam must be rebred. In order fir the foal to race, it must be bred using live cover. The dam is shipped to the stud, bred, then sent home. Simple. Except the foal can't go with her. And the mare may be away for weeks. The solution? A nurse mare raises the foal, the mare is rebred and prepped for next foaling season, and the foal is weaned and their training starts a few months after. By the time the dam foals again, the baby is out on the track bringing in the $$$. Everything starts again. So there's the root of the problem in the TBs, Live Cover. If they used AI, the mare would stay put and raise her baby, eliminating the nurse mare and the foals that are the byproduct of her milk.
Winifred Thompson what's wrong with Ireland I'm pretty sure it happens everywhere
I would like to see an update on these little ones???
Unfortunately we don't have an update on each individual foal. They were left in the capable and kind hands of Ray of Light Farm in CT. Many, if not all were adopted to good homes and the ones that weren't remain well cared for in a special, beautiful farm. Although we may not be able to keep track of every foal we have a hand in saving, we don't leave them behind. We make sure they have a chance at a bright future. A second chance.
It’s heartbreaking that these BABIES didn’t get even a minute of their lives to just be horses. We can’t teach them horse, only another horse can do that. Sad.
What is it with all these appt foals?
I've noticed that a lot of nurse mare foals are Appaloosas. Is there a reason why?
gorgeous
Love to this what a privilege 😃
ohh the dark one is really pretty. actually they're all really pretty.
They're orphan foals
It's kind of obvious that they don't have a mother
Sandra Watts they are fed by bottle, simulation of a mother.
@Sandra Watts their orphans. Their mothers are most likely dead.
Them babies need more room to run , jump, and play.
jan wells These were feral foals who were brought into pens to be gentled. At the end of the week they were in pastures, as horses are meant to be.
THE FOALS have plenty of space outdoors.
These are appaloosas right?
Lindos animales,cuidemos... Por esperiensia se que la madre sufre cuando le quitan las crías
Why were these foals orphaned? I'm not really familiar with all of this, I did read the description but like I said this is all new to me.
Think of a nurse-mare as a wet-nurse. When a mare has a foal they aren't able to be used to their full potential for 2 years. Because of this , greedy owners will breed his "good mare" (mare A) and at the exact same time as the nurse mare (mare B) to foal days before mare A. Once mare A's foal is born, it will be given to the nurse mare. Mare B's foal is sent "somewhere else".
Nurse mares are generally cheap and well-proven breeders.
When I was much younger I witnessed part of the process, I was too young to quite understand what exactly was going on and naively trusted the owners when I asked what happened to the nurse mare's baby when they answered that they sold him. As an adult I am mortified that I had any part of it and can't believe that I was so blind.
That is not how it is done. When this program started in Kentucky and Tennessee, Thoroughbred country USA, most of the nurse mares put in the original program were selected for bloodlines, quality and temperament. They were bred about 4-5 months earlier than the usual breeding season. These foals are then weaned at 4 months as needed. When the wet mare is called for, the new foal is grafted to her. The owner of the nurse mare gets the breeding of a quality stallion at a free or greatly reduced price. So the foals are not exactly waste
gmwwc That is just how I've seen it done at the barn where I was at. If it is done differently in other parts of the country I'm unaware of them. Either way, it's a horrible thing to do.
When I say "much younger" I mean I was 20, not that I was 12. now I'm just not as oblivious and naive as I was before. I just didn't want to believe what was happening until the colt was sent away. I actually had to have it explained to me because I believed a horse lover loved ALL horses.
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In this video, the foals are pretty young, so you might have been lucky enough to observe a "better" way of handling this stupid human made situation.
That little white colt has little bit of a curve to his upper ear. Could he have some Marwari in him? I'm doubting myself a little because that breed of horse is really valuable from what I've heard.
Why are there so Many?
How much is it to adopt one of these little cuties?
+Lisa Plambeck These guys were all gentled in 2013. Not sure if any are available for adoption but you can contact Ray of Light Farm in East Haddam, CT. to get more information. www.rayoflightfarm.org/
Aw their in their own little herd
What is the "nurse mare and foal" industry?
From the website :
Snow
Nurse Mare Foal Rescue - Snow's mother was sent to take care of another more expensive foal so that foal's mother could be bred again. Snow was left with no mom. A lot of the nurse foals do not survive.
What happened to their moms? lost to death or cruel horse racing trade?
Baby-boomer369 Their dams (moms) are nurse mares. Nurse mares are bred for their milk, once their baby is born it is taken away and the mare is (usually) given an expensive thoroughbred foal to rear. The dam of the thoroughbred foal in most cases still alive but it is not allowed to care for her foal as she will be bred again as soon as possible to produce the most amount of offspring. The nurse mare's foal is either killed, auctioned, starved, or sent off to a, what I call, foal barn where they are care for with a herd of other little nurse mare foals to be adopted by the public.
Why and how were they orphand?
+CPC ANIMAL house Unfortunately a little known industry, nurse foals, creates these foals. Mares are impregnated so they can become nursing mares for "more valuable" foals and their mothers can be bred sooner. These guys are the original foals of the nurse mares and are usually killed or left to die. We were lucky enough to rescue them before that gruesome fate.
+ReachOutToHorses Thank you for clarifying that position for me, that is what I stated happened earlier in my comment above, I kow this happens in Ireland. Cob mares bred to be nurse mares if required. They are hired out at 1000 pounds and the person in receipt has to put the mare in foal again. There own foals are usually Distroyed . I k now this happens, It is something that is not talked about. There are times when a mare has lost her foal at birth or naturally and she has been used as a nurse mare. But this is a different thing entirely.
Greetings from Northern Ireland.
Cómo preparan a la madre para separar al hijo de ella
Hola, Argelia! Al principio creamos una separacion en la misma area, donde el hijo no puede amamantar por la cerca. Y puede empezar con una o dos horas a la vez. Cada dia aumentamos el tiempo separados y, despues de un rato, (un mes mas o menos) podemos aumentar la distancia tambien. Lo mas importante es que lo hacemos poco a poco para que no les dieran demasiado estres. Quieren dar de comer al nino y a la madre cuando esten separados tambien, porque estamos estimulando al nino comer sacate en vez de amamantar.
I would love to have the little brown and white Appaloosa
Are They Mustang? Spanish Mustang? 🐴🐴
Marwari horses' ears only curve when purebred!
Erica lastnema All foals are born with curly ear tips, they straighten out after a while, usually a few days which sickens me even more because some do have the curly ear tips which means they are just a few days old and already motherless, sucks ...
"Getting to know you... getting to know you getting to know me..." :)
what farm is this is CT?
+Kirsten Z Ray of Light Farm, East Haddam, CT
scratch their backs; they love that.
awwww omg so cute
You ever been in contact with Jini who has the channel “Listen to your horse”? Maybe you could exchange ideas since you have the same mindset about horses and their choices.
ruclips.net/user/ListenToYourHorse1st
Thank you, will check it out!
Why do they do this? It makes no sense to leave baby horse to fend for themselves.
If you peep at the title, you'll see the babies were orphaned ;;w;; I'm not the maker of the video but I thought I'd come in before some jerk comes in kicking and screaming
Claire bacchi they are nurse mare or junk foals, so their damage is bred then the resulting foal is immediately taken from mom so she can raise a thourabred foal.
I meant dam
So cute
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I have a nurse foal her name is lily of you want to see my mate go to Hammyhorselover
For Jo Relian , Don't judge all of the United States by a few. There are caring and uncaring people in all countries. A great majority of people really do have compassion for God's children. Animal or human. Sadly there are greedy people too. People who have love for nothing but money and what happiness they "THINK"it can buy. Thank God, whoever you choose to believe he is, that there are people who do care and are in a position to help.
1:05 soo cute XD❤
Any one to get them foals are lucky
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l like Lacy and the Appaloosa are cute..
Why are you guys wearing helmets.
So, we can keep ourselves sharp to help the next batch of horses.
I understand where your coming from I own horses too and a wear a helmet when I ride. But I think when your just walking around it not necessary. I can read my horses body language really well and I know not to approach my horse from the back or front or she might spook. I also talk to her as I approach her so she can hear me and know where I am. I don't what to seam rude but I just don't think you need to ware a helmet when your just leading around your horse. If you are in a unsafe situation that you did not see before hand its always a good rule to be in a position where you can easily get away, such as picking out a hoof or loading a horse in a trailer. If you know where its safe then a helmet should not be necessary. Always be prepared to calmly get away so you and your horse can stay safe.
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Hi Ella. We too believe helmets are a good idea as you never know what might happen, and things can go wrong very quickly, especially in an unfamiliar environment and with horses you don't know. These are not our horses, but rescued foals. However, truth be told, this is a clinic, and regardless of what some may think about the value, necessity, or lack there of, of helmets, our liability insurance company has a very specific philosophy when it comes to our events and participants wearing helmets. Either participants where helmets or they won't cover our events. So... we wear helmets. :) But more importantly, I think it is more impressive to be able to teach complete novices how to compassionately and kindly gentle rescue orphaned foals in less than a week. It is very rewarding and a lot of fun, and we are erasing these foals first horrible impressions of humans and replacing them with very positive experiences, regardless if folks are wearing helmets or not. :)
that does not happen in New Zealand!!!!!! yes there is cruel shit that goes on here!! we are a small country we have our faults! Oh not like America!! and these big country's That n the rodeos! and the night stepping horses!! cruel! fox fur! I can go on!!! I won't !! The world needs to understand that it can't go on like this. Something's going to give!
Get over your NOT LIKE AMERICA! This is not a USA thing. read the comments I have detailed above.Also, these are not ugly little scrub foals so there is a LOT that this ROTH organization is NOT TELLING YOU....