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One foal was from the same sire.

chris
--- heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > This particular mare has had three more foals for
> me
> > and she's always been pretty close to her due date
> > since then, so who knows what really happend in
> that
> > first experienced with her?
> Was she in foal to the same stallion with this one? 
> Don't forget that the
> foal is the one that determines gestational length,
> not the mare.  And
> that the foal gets half of its genetics from daddy. 
> Our family that
> routinely takes a year or more all trace back to my
> foundation
> stallion--he had such an impact on due dates that
> virtually every mare
> bred to him took close to a year.  Didn't matter how
> long their gestations
> had been by other stallions.  I am still seeing the
> tendency in his
> grandkids--doesn't matter whether they are by his
> son or out of one of his
> daughters or granddaughters...
>
> Heidi

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