Mares, as a rule, are excellent mothers to their offspring, but abnormal or inadequate maternal behavior does occur in rare instances, writes Karen Briggs in the December edition of The Horse. The ...

Imagine this scenario: You are lucky enough to have the horse of your dreams. She's an athletic and beautiful mare, but there’s one problem--she's notorious for displaying "marish" behavior, and it's ...

A common refrain from horse owners and caretakers is that mares become more moody and misbehave more when they are in estrus. A study from the University of California, Davis, investigated whether ...

Given the paucity of published data on the effects of artificial weaning on mares, the aim of the present study was to investigate the behavioral and hormonal effects of two different weaning methods ...

"72% of the stallions reacted with sexual arousal (mounting) to one of 3 successive simulated sexual stimuli; 25% to a dummy, an additional 44% to a gentle stallion and another 3% to a dummy smeared ...