In foals they are sometimes plainly seen, and subsequently disappear.
It is supposed that Fulham was the swampy home of fowlen, or water fowls, but it is an equally reasonable conjecture that it was likewise a tract of marshy meads whereon the foalen or foals were pastured.
The Gauchos employed here attribute it chiefly to the stallions constantly roaming from place to place, and compelling the mares to accompany them, whether or not the young foals are able to follow.
Sulivan can so far corroborate this curious account, that he has several times found young foals dead, whereas he has never found a dead calf.
This appears natural, and the more probable, as it has been remarked in studs that an equal number of male and female foals are bred, which proves that, at least as far as regards the sex, the female has equal influence.
They cut the manes of their foals at a year or eighteen months old, in order to make it grow thick and long.
Dardanus had a son, king Erichthonius, who was wealthiest of all men living; he had three thousand mares that fed by the water-meadows, they and their foals with them.
Of horses, moreover, we seized a hundred and fifty, all of them mares, and many had foals running with them.
He has courage and cunning, but his blood is not a line we want for foals on this range.
This gray was going to be one of the Great Ones, a racer and a sire—to leave his mark in horse history and stamp his own quality on foals throughout miles and years in this southwestern land.
They had slackened in their flight a little but as he hove in sight again they took the alarm once more, the foals first rushing to the front and then the whole herd with flying manes and tails blown straight out.
While he drank he watched the line of images broken by the small waves in the lake and listened to the foals which had only tasted the water and now were splashing it about with their upper lips.
Brood mares, stallions young and old, even thefoals were dropped.
Cows always have most of their milk taken away, but young lambs as well as foals often suffer through taking too much of the dam’s milk during the first day or two of their existence.
Of course, the date of birth counts for a good deal when foals are shown with their dams, as it does to a less extent with yearlings, but after that age it makes very little difference whether a foal is born in February or in May.
This must be noted in the case of foals just weaned.
From a farmer’s point of view I do not believe in getting Shire foals too early.
It is very necessary to see that all foals eat well before they are weaned.
It is, however, necessary to grow fillies along with the aid of supplementary food and to “do” both them and their foals well while they are suckling.
The quantities mentioned are for foals which lie out or run on pasture.
It will be found that foals reared in this way are healthy and ready for their feed, and they will often prefer to lie full length in the open than to rest in the shed.
Even in so fleeting a character as colour, Hofacker[109] found that, out of two hundred and sixteen cases in which horses of the same colour were paired, only eleven pairs produced foals of a quite different colour.
There's a heap of good foals ruined every year, just because a lot of fool cow punchers want to get a bunch of horses into the corral in an hour and a half, when by rights they ought to take three hours to do it in.
The pony mare and one of the Percherons dropped foals within the next two weeks, and fawn-eyed Jersey calves arrived almost daily.
A specific polyarthritis or synovitis which attends navel infection of foals is perhaps the most frequent form of arthritis that is to be considered metastatic.
In foals of one or two days of age, this tendon is sometimes found parted or ruptured and the condition may be bilateral.
In parts of Canada foals of from one to three days of age are found affected in such manner that more or less interference with the gait is to be seen in those moderately affected.
Excepting in some cases of radial fracture of foals where considerable swelling has taken place, there is no difficulty in readily recognizing this condition.
Let me run free for still another year, but take the seven mares and their foals to market, and sell them for what you can get.
Boots was willing to do this, so he gathered the seven foals together and drove them away to market.
The other seven foals I will leave here with their mothers, but this one I will take out into the world with me, for already he is big enough and stout enough for me to ride him.
He drove the mares and their foals to market, and sold them and bought fodder with the money.
I can tell you her foals are worth a bit of money.
They enter the region riding mares that have foals, and these foals they leave behind.
The old Bushi was then consulted, and his advice was that they should take with them 4 mares and 9 she-asses that had foals, and tie up the foals at the entrance to the Land of Darkness, but drive the dams before them.
His sons had been born as the foals of a racing stud might be born,--merely to continue the line of blood and succession.
After helping Lee to mount, he vaulted into his own saddle and rode away, driving the mares and foals before them.
Pointing to a couple of mares with foals they had brought in from a distant part of the range, Carleton added, "There's still another over in the next valley.
Never did they think me weary, Nor my weakness e'er considered, Though my work had wearied heroes, Or the strength of foals exhausted.
Forth to chase the elks I sent him, And to struggle with the monsters, And the mighty beasts to bridle, And to put the foals in harness.
From his mouth the words were flowing, And his tongue sent forth his sayings, 560 Quick as legs of foals are moving, Or the feet of rapid courser.
About a year ago four hybrid colts and three ordinary foals were attacked by that scourge of the stable, the strongylus worm.
The foalswere without stripes, and showed no kind of indication that their mother had ever been mated with a zebra.
Breeders are well aware that foals are often born with stripes, usually on the shoulders or legs, less frequently on the face.
It is a remarkable fact that Nora's foals were more striped before she had been mated with the zebra than afterward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
