When to wean

Thanks for the info!

I'll post a couple current pictures of Phoenix, he is growing into these really unusual markings I've never seen before....

i would wean them together between 4 and6 mths especially if the mares are together i,ve known mares to try and rob another foal when theirs have been taken

Beautiful foals, congrats on them :) I'm also a Jessica in Arizona!

I like to wean around 5-6 months. If they were mine, I'd wait until the younger one is 5 months and wean them together.

nice to meet you.

I was surprised how bold Griffin was within 24 hours of being born. He would walk right up to me, where as when Phoenix was born he stayed much closer to mom.

They all have their own personalities, don't they? Last year one of my foals was so scared about people, it was hard to get near her. Now you can't keep her away from you haha :)

I would wait til the younger one is 4-5 months. It all depends on how well he is doing, and how well the mare with the older foal is doing. Weaning together is much lower stress, but you do have to watch because they can become more sour to each other. Do you have an older, calm horse that you could put the two with once they are weaned? Just wondering because we always have an older mare so that they still learn to be horses but are weaned.

That being said we weaned my orphan from the bucket at a little over 4 months. We normally wean closer to 5-6 months depending on how the colt is growing and eating.

We have 40-70 horses, so I'd imagine someone will make a good babysitter.

Another question:
How old should they be before they are introduced into the main herd? Right now, these four are are separate, but are in the line of sight of the other horses.

Its been awhile but it seems we waited a few weeks before they went back. It wasn't a month I know that. Maybe 2 weeks?

What ever you do DON"T KEEP THEM WITH THEIR MOTHERS TOO LONG!!!

I used to know a mare called Peppy and her son was called Sharman.
When I first met the pair Peppy was 19 and Sharman 9. The unforutant thing was that Sharman had NEVER been taken away from Peppy for 9 whole years of his life!!!!! When the lady who owned them thought it was time to ride a younger horse for a change, she sent him to a trainer. She didn't take him away by putting him in a paddock where Peppy could see but straight on the float to the trainer.

Peppy then got put in a BIG grassy paddock, and my horse Nugget was in there too. Peppy was stressing and when the other horses in the paddock came over to investigate, she started to get angry and was trying to fight them.

She ran my horse Bum first into a BARBED WIRE FENCE and as you can imagine that would hurt, Nugget was kept in a stable, but wouldn't eat anything beacause of the stress and pain. He had to get 4 stitches in 1 of the cuts and has a scar now. The vet gave us medication, but with him not eating it made it hard to get it in to him!!

I hope this warns you, because angry mares and the greatest thing to deal with.

[quote=Vidaloco;463426]Whenever you wean them (the later the better IMO) you'll have a much easier time doing them together.

that isn't true, if you wean later it will probobly be harder as the mare will be used to having a baby around and then you will take her baby away, and stressed mares can not always be a good thing