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Mare's baby
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foal
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A foal is an equine up to one year old; the term is used mainly for horses . More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"give birth (to a foal)," late 14c., from foal (n.). Related: Foaled ; foaling .\n
Usage examples of foal.
Ben wondered if Dobie noticed that the pair was headed for the office annex, not the broodmare barns where the sick foal was.
Steve had read that when this rare event of foaling twins happened, the mare was very apt to favor one foal, giving it all of her attention while neglecting the other.
Beyond the foaling boxes lay a wide path between two small paddocks of about half an acre each, and at the end of the path, to the left, rose a fair-sized barn with a row of windows just below its roof.
Ginnie, snuggling inside her padded jacket, gave carrots from her pocket to some of the mares in the first yard and walked me without stopping through the empty places, the second yard, the foaling yard, and past the breeding shed.
We went slowly back to the foaling yard and found nobody there except horses.
However, it had been diplomatically pointed out to him that he had not yet taken a night watch in the foaling barn, and a full half of the mares had not yet foaled.
It was only fair that he take his turn at night watch in the foaling barn.
The mares are foaling and everything is more hectic than you can imagine!
Snowflake grazed beside the Hinny, who watched out for her in the manner of a dam, and I knew the foal would not come to harm.
Lady rode a pale blue mare, the offspring of the foal of the Hinny and the Blue Stallion.
It made a picture, and it showed the Hinny, as she had been in life, great with foal, grazing near the wood.
The rest of the herd seemed to take inspiration from Shalkan, for in an instant, every single unicorn, from the flame-red stallion to a pair of leggy hornless foals, was bounding along after Shalkan, as smooth and flowing as a flight of birds.
A female keld charged into the clearing, trying to gore two ferts who were circling her in an attempt to bring down the early foal at her side.
Mikhail about that keld foal, and tell him how they could keep young animals in the side canyon near The Home.
All the male camels are gelded, whilst many breeding maharees carry no weights, but follow their burdened kind with their foals.