Successful birthing: 1-80
Failed birthing: 81-100
1. Succesful breeding
1- 100
1-50: Alive and Healthy
51-75: Alive but sick
76-100: Dies
2. Alive and healthy
1- 100
1-25: Poor general health. This foal can get sick or injured more easily and is best retired at an earlier age than usual
26-75: Average general health. This foal will not get sick very easily but it can still happen and is best retired at an average age.
76-100: Excellent general health. This foal will rarely get sick or injured and can compete for much longer than other horses without consequences.
3. Alive but sick
1-40: Premature, requires extra attention
1-75: Foal gets healthy
76-95: Foal has permanent health issues
96-100: Foal dies
41-65: Wanderer Syndrome- Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy: www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/ind…
1-25: recovers within 48 hours
26-50: recovers within 4 days
51-75: recovers within 7 days
76-100: foal does not recover and has to be put down
66-90: Meningitis (see below for descripive links)
1-80: Viral www.dhpe.org/infect/vmenin.htm… (Clears up within a week or two
81-100: Bacterial www.dhpe.org/infect/Bacmeningi…
Bacterial Meningitis:
1-80: Treatment with antibiotics is successful and foal recovers
81-100: Treatment is unsuccessful and foal passes away
91-100: Hypoglycemia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglyc
1-75: Acute.
76-100: Severe.
4. Dies
1-50: Miscarriage
51-100: Still born
BREEDING CAPABILITY (Female)
(0-1) Fertile and healthy
(2-3) Fertile but often gets reproductive infections (may cause miscarriages)
(4-5) Only conceives with Artificial Insemination
(6-7) Must donate fertilized egg to donor mare (can't carry to term herself)
(8-9) Barren/ Infertile
BREEDING CAPABILITY (Male)
(0-1) Fertile and healthy
(2-3) Handlers necessary (rough with mares sometimes)
(4-5) Pasture breeding only (calm and natural)
(6-7) Collect with Artificial Insemination methods only
(8-9) Infertile
AGE OF DEATH
(0-2) Before start of career (Use: Younger Horse CoD)
(3-5) During career (Use: Middle Age Horse CoD)
(6-9) During retirement (Use: Old Horse CoD)
CAUSE OF DEATH (3-10 years old)
(0-1) Not enough colostrum- foal is unhealthy and dies of infection
(2-3) Wormy- contracts fatal type of parasite which isn't noticed until it's too late
(4-5) Trailer accident- vehicle crash causes trailer to tip and crush animal inside
(6-7) Kicked by horse- in either leg (broken beyond repair) or in skull for instant death
(8-9) Caught in fence (if barbed wire, cuts away an artery and bleeds to death) or killed by animal (dog, cougar… whatever is in the area)
CAUSE OF DEATH (10-20 years old)
(0) Performance Injury (If already stated)
(1) Wormy- contracts fatal parasite which isn't noticed until it's too late
(2-3) Trailer accident- vehicle crash causes trailer to tip and crush animal inside
(4) Struck by lightning
(5) Seizure- Given injection into corroded artery by mistake instead of jugular vein
(6-7) Colic- recurrent cases ends up in too much dead bowel to save
(8-9) Kicked by horse- Leg (broken beyond repair) or in skull for instant death
CAUSE OF DEATH (20-30 years old)
(0) Wormy- contracts fatal parasite which isn't noticed until it's too late
(1) Trailer accident- vehicle crash causes trailer to tip and crush animal inside
(2) Struck by lightning
(3) Seizure- Given injection into corroded artery by mistake instead of jugular vein
(4-5) Colic- recurrent cases ends up in too much dead bowel to save
(6) Kicked by horse- Leg (broken beyond repair) or in skull for instant death
(7-8) Recumbancy- Some illness or injury causes horse to be unable to stand anymore
(9) Starving- Not due to negligence… horse is too old to get enough nutrients from food or eat enough food.