When does YOUR breeding season end?

[Jenny]

Can I join in?
Well you can imagine the weather here! ( Ontario, Canada) Cold, cold and more cold. until mid June and now it is like 90.

We just have a couple left to breed. One is my own mare who just foaled a couple of weeks ago and another is a clients mare. Then I think we are done. Unless some stragglers call. We just bred a couple this week as well.

Gone Fishin is not tired, I am sure he wishes it would go on all year round!!! but it is not like he gets a 100 mares either. I wish!!

So far everyone except the ones just bred have been checked in foal. Lets just pray everyone stays that way.

I don't stand Gone Fishin at my own farm. He is at Hillside Thoroughbreds who have much more experience than I do. Plus breeding is their full time job. I really do not have time, with us having our own farm and having quite a few horses at the track. It seems like I live there these days!!! I do however go over and help breed once in a while. Makes me feel like I am doing my part.

Well here is to everyone!!! Hope you all have a successful breeding season!!!!

[gotpaints]

Farms here breed up until September depending on the purpose for the foal. Since it doesn't warm up here until at least the end of March (later this year), we try to have horses and calves on the ground in April and May, March if we are planning on sending the foal to earlier training. My current 3-year-old was born at day 368 (April 29th) and that is a little late for my taste with my plans for her, but she's not going to the track so it doesn't matter that way but I refused to break her until she was at least a solid 26 months so she didn't get broke until August of last year.

Breeding for a track foal, all the farms I was with tried to get them foaled out by April 15th.