Young Stock & Brood Mares

Quainton Stud offer a complete service for mares and young stock. We facilitate foaling mares in our purpose built foaling unit. Each enormous stable has rubberised floors, a CCTV link to the Managers office and cottage, overhead heating and automatic water.

We work very closely with Thorsten Feddern Bellow Hill Veterinary practice, which is located closeby. Once your foal has been safely delivered, mum and baby can be turned out into one of our nursery pens, before joining another carefully selected small group of mares with their foals in one of our larger fields.

Your mare can then be re-inseminated during her first season if you wish.

Prices 2007

  
Foaling fee £250
Weaning fee £50
   
Stabled Keep Mare £15 per day
Stabled Mare and Foal £16.50 per day
   
Grass Keep Mare £6.50 per day
Grass Keep Mare and Foal £8.00 per day
   
Winter Yarded in Barns £8.00 per day
  All prices subject to VAT
   

Fields & Grazing

Each field has post and rail fencing, designed without corners or sharp edges. The automatic watering facilities are shaped in a way so the water refills whilst the horse drinks, but there is no stagnant water or sharp edges. It’s also impossible for the foals to get their legs caught inside.

Each field has a shelter and the grass is carefully managed. Manure is removed regularly, weed and thistles are controlled and the fields are rotated with sheep. The results speak for themselves, generations of prize horses and cattle have been raised on these pastures.

Foals/Weaning

Once your foal is eating hard food and showing signs of independence (not before six months), you may wish to start the weaning process. Particularly if your mare is in foal again.

At Quainton Stud we believe a soft, kind approach is the best method and the weaning process is carefully conducted in stages.

Stage 1: Look for signs of independence from foal, or annoyance from the mother.

Stage 2: Establish independent feeding using our purpose built foal-feeding ring.

Stage 3: Take at least two mothers away together, leaving at least one nanny mare with the foals in their original environment.

We have found this method works best, it causes the least amount of stress to both mares and foals.

Newly weaned foals then have the opportunity to stay in their original groups. In the winter they come in to our large barns at night and go out for the day. They are fed hard food twice daily and given unlimited amounts of hay.