How To Choose The Right Horse Stud For Your Mare
If the bit is too large, held too strongly or the nose band shuts his mouth too tightly, he will need to get his tongue out of the way in order to swallow. Nothing could be further from the truth, though, and literary translators need to be especially gifted. I ride her son in a fairly thin French link, which Dr. Jahiel recommends for horses with thick tongues and low palates. I talked to trainers who’ve tried various ways to stop horses from hanging their tongues. Approximately one year into our relationship, she’d kicked the tongue-hanging habit, which made me wonder why horses hang their tongues and whether my way of ‘curing’ Rubesca is common? I plied Rubesca with daily TLC and rode her as if she had no quirks. As Dr. Jahiel says, this problem doesn’t go away overnight. Dr. Jahiel stresses the importance of maintaining even contact with both reins: sometimes tongue lolling is a reaction to too much pressure on one side of the mouth.
To this I would add turning the horse out as much as possible with friendly companions, and decreasing his idle time in the stall. This method allows for much greater management and veterinary intervention making certain that the mare is at her peak time to conceive before presenting to the stallion and that due dates are known. In hand breeding is the most commonly used method in commercial studs. Artificial insemination has become a lot more common as it is making breeding with top stallions accessible to all. This technique means it is also possible for the mare to produce more than one foal a year and does not put the strain on the body that having several foals over a lifetime would. The embryo is taken and transferred to a recipient mare that is used just to produce the foal thus allowing the donor mare to get back to competitive life. Embryo transfer is the most modern of the methods and has been d