How long did it take before the foal was just not concerned with were mom was?
I’m not talking about settling from frantically calling and pacing (which isn’t a problem here), just general “where is she, where is she, where is she?”
With most of mine they don’t even look for mom. They are in with their same group, minus mom. Had two this year that “looked” for almost a full day.
We have one that doesn’t care at all this year and a filly that still “kisses” her mom goodnight every night when I let the babies in from their pasture. Not a big deal, but she walks by her dam’s stall and mom stops eating and sticks out her nose. Every night, same thing, then filly goes into her own stall and starts eating.
And, no I am not crazy, she only goes to that stall.:lol:
Depends on the foal most of mine kind of look or do the occasional call for mom only for a day or two.
Are there adoptable foals in your area? Playmates are important.
Days, not weeks. 
By the end of a week, it’s over. They do their thing.
It also depends on the foal. My filly as independant from day 1… Weaning was a non event.
My colt was a “mama’s boy” and took longer, but as I said, not more than a week.
Three days approximately for mine.
This year the first colt had weaned him self and neither Momma or him made any fuss at all, I wish they were all that easy.
Colt #2 took him 3 or 4 days to settle properly.
First day out she called and ran about looking for her for about 20mins. Then she settled in with nana & pop pop and only “called” one in awhile. Momma, on the other hand, walked up to the mares field and never looked back.
A couple of weeks for me. No other babies on the property and I fenceline weaned…filly went with 2 adult mares and mare went with her BF gelding. There was never any running, whinnying, drama, etc. Baby and mom just spent lots of time hanging out beside the shared fence. Didn’t see either of them on the areas of their pastures that were not visible to the other pasture for 2 weeks or so.
Putting out round bales on opposite ends of the pastures helped a lot. DH calls the round bale filly’s surrogate. :winkgrin:
Ok, sounds like things aren’t entirely out of the norm here. It’s Day 7 here, with this the first day that things have looked “normal” at times.
I can only do a fenceline wean here. 4 horses - 2 geldings, mare, foal. All 4 have been together for many months, so Gizmo knows everyone very well. I put him with the more reliably quiet gelding, knowing even if Gizmo got upset and started running, Rio was likely to stand at his hay pile LOL
Yes, there has been lots of hanging out at the fenceline, and I had to get a muck bucket to put water where Gizmo was, as he wasn’t going around the corner (ie out of sight of mom) to drink :rolleyes:
Today is the first day that Gizmo has voluntarily put himself out of sight of mom, in order to be with Rio instead, so that makes me happy and I guess it gets better from here 
Mom is much better about it, she was ready LOL There’s no where in her pasture she can get out of sight if baby is at the right spot along the fenceline, it’s that he can go out of sight of her in quite a large section of his pasture.
I wonder if the later weaning has made it a bigger deal for him? He’s 8 months - I know! - but I simply couldn’t do it earlier. Nobody’s getting hurt, they’re still eating fine, and he’s really not being stupid about anything, he just loves the fenceline :lol:
Sounds pretty normal, JB.
JB - the later weaning most likely made it LESS of a big deal. I’ve weaned at 4 (had to), 6 and 8 mos. By far, 8 mos. was the easiest all around, IME.
LOL, that could be. But this is a foal who would still, very first thing upon getting out of “jail” for breakfast, head straight for the snack bar. Didn’t matter if it was 15 minutes or 2 hours. He was still pretty darn actively nursing LOL It was hard to watch a 13.2h+ boy nurse off his 16.1h+ momma!
I weaned mine at 5 months and 4.5 months… The 4.5 month-old was the best.
Just depends on the individual!
Don’t forget about “habituation”. The #1 thing in any horse’s world…young or old.
He wants the faucet because he’s used to the faucet. :lol::lol:
Ditto this for sure!
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Don’t forget about “habituation”. The #1 thing in any horse’s world…young or old.
He wants the faucet because he’s used to the faucet. :lol::lol:[/QUOTE]
LOL, that’s the truth!
I weaned at 4.5 and 5.5 months and they were ok with it within a day…and have never had any problems (either mares or foals) and they are litterally 20’ from each other when outside and across the hall inside!! By far the easiest weaning ever for me!! 
I weaned my now two year old at 6 months, he was out with a gelding the same day, and mom started going out in a different pasture where she couldn’t see him the next. All went well.
My colt this year I weaned at 4 months, as he would of been weaned in December otherwise, and I was concerned about weight on my mare. My mare was “over” him when she was with him, but had a fit when we weaned. It was a LONG week, for her. The foal could of cared less, put him in his stall, he called some, but stood & ate quietly. And he went out the next day with a foal a few months older than him.
