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Thursday, April 4, 2019

UNDERSTANDING DIGESTION IN FOALS

Courtesy of Kentucky Equine Research
Soon after a foal is born, it gets its first meal of colostrum, an antibody-rich fluid secreted by the mare’s mammary glands. It’s important for the foal to receive this colostrum within the first 24 hours of birth. 

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