Season of New Beginnings
by Janice Pariza
Title
Season of New Beginnings
Artist
Janice Pariza
Medium
Photograph - Photography Art
Description
A Mother grazes as a newly born foal feeds in the lush green meadow.
This image was captured of these wild Mustangs in Mancos, Colorado.
Under natural circumstances, mares tend to give birth to foals in the spring and summer, after 11 months of gestation. This is when grass is most plentiful, so the new mother has plenty to eat, promoting milk production. Nature's normal cycle isn't in sync with mare owners who want racing foals, so humans have devised methods of bringing mares into heat earlier than normal so her foal is born earlier in the year.
Mares normally come into season, or heat, from April to October. Given the 11-month gestation period, that means foals start hitting the ground in May and the latest babies of the year in September. If you breed a mare near the end of the annual seasonal cycle, she'll be carrying baby weight in the heat of the following summer. A mare's heat cycle corresponds to daylight lengthening as winter turns to spring. According to Colorado State University's Equine Reproduction Laboratory, changes in the brain's level of melatonin affected by additional daylight stimulates hormone production and the mare comes into heat.
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March 27th, 2018
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