Breeding Management and Taming Techniques for Riding Foals

1-2 years of age is an important growth stage for foals. During this stage, heart girth and body length increase rapidly, and about 20% of adult body weight is formed within this year. At the same time, they face the dual tasks of the sexual maturity period and determining the foal's development direction. Therefore, on the premise of ensuring normal growth and development, exercise and taming are the key points of management work at this stage.

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The protein concentration of the diet must not be reduced; it should still be within the range of 15-16%, and the feeding of concentrate should be gradually reduced. Under non-training conditions, concentrate is reduced from about 30% at 12 months of age to 15% at 24 months of age. After reaching 1.5 years of age, the foal begins training, and daily exercise time should be 2 hours. At this time, the ratio of forage to concentrate should be adjusted according to the degree of training to meet the energy supply for different training intensities.

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Taming foals is an important part of management work, especially for foals used for breeding, competition and riding. Taming work is based on horse behavior science and exercise physiology, complies with the growth and development patterns of foals, and actively induces foals to understand human intentions and obey commands, so as to achieve the goal of breeding excellent riding horses.

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