noun
definition
A young horse or related animal, especially just after birth or less than a year old.
definition
A young boy who assisted the headsman by pushing or pulling the tub.
verb
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To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring.
Examples of foal in a Sentence
It was a good sign that the foal would be born soon.
She gazed at the foal again.
Princess was supposed to foal again in January.
Alex waited through some more contractions and finally pulled the foal straight out.
Alex had promised the foal to Jonathan and he had already named it Eureka.
You've never seen a foal born before?
She's having her foal.
I have a mare; and we have a five-year-old mare with a colt, a four year-old filly, and a two-year-old filly... oh, and my mare is going to foal again in January.
Over supper they talked of the expected foal, the ranch, and everything but why they hadn't talked much for the last four days.
He had been helping train her, and when she was old enough to have a foal, it would be his.
They couldn't keep the foal as a stud, but she might be able to trade it for a mare when it was older.
When the mare began pushing again, he pulled down gently, twisting the foal a little.
The shoulders slid out slowly and the foal was out to his hips.
Carmen studied the foal for a few minutes.
They stayed in the barn for a while, watching as the foal took its first steps, and finally found the milk supply.
She needed to give the foal a name, but nothing came to mind.
The foal snorted and danced back a few steps.
Princess had her new foal, the buffalo had her calves, and even the Longhorns had a baby.
Would it go through life with a name like, "the foal?"
He dubbed it "Dawn" because the foal had everyone up at dawn with her frolicking in the barn.
As popular plays the Sdrga csiko (Bay Foal) and A giros bugyelldris (The Red Purse), by Francis Csepreghy, have their own special merit, and were often represented in 1878 and 1879 at Budapest and elsewhere.
In all these establishments, after two or three crossings of the mare and ass, the breeders cause the mare to be put to a horse; yet a pure-bred foal has never been produced resembling either an ass or a mule."
By way of testing this assumption, a bay filly, the half-sister of a richly striped hybrid, was put to a cross-bred Highland pony, and a Highland mare, while nursing her hybrid foal, was put to a colt the half-brother of a hybrid.
The StudBook, although silent as to the date of his birth, says he was a common country stallion in Lincolnshire until Partner was six years old - and we know from the same authority that Partner was foaled in 1718; we may therefore conclude that Jigg was a later foal than Basto, who, according to Whyte's History of the Turf, was a brown horse foaled in 1703.
It is generally believed that he was imported in Anne's reign, but the exact date is immaterial, for, assuming that he was brought over as early as 1700 from Aleppo, he could scarcely have had a foal living before 1701, the first year of the 18th century.
May is considered the best month for a mare to foal, as there is abundance of natural food and the weather is mild enough for the mare to lie out.
Succulent food encourages the flow of milk, and the success of the foal greatly depends on its milk supply.
Mares most readily conceive when served at the " foal heat " eleven days after foaling.
After breakfast Felipa took Destiny and Jonathan to see a new foal that was born during the night.
Our first little foal – I can hardly wait.
Some boys brought in a mare, her nine week old foal and a 2 year old colt for treatment and assessment.
It is controversial whether administering corticosteroids to a premature foal is beneficial.
The tongue depressor is attached to the foal by elastoplast, taped round the foal's muzzle, just behind the nostrils.
She is 6 years old and has been taken slowly after breeding a foal.
He has produced one foal - a well marked colt.
Iâm not proud of this, but back in the very beginning, when TV Today was but a prancing foal of...
This stunning colt foal is well put together with good conformation & bone.
When I told her Iâd seen the perfect foal she knew at once which one I meant.
Registered Welsh Section " D " colt foal for sale at weaning.
A female foal is called a " filly foal " .
Please contact us for specific individual advice on how to integrate this product into your orphan foal 's diet.
Previously immunized mares should receive a booster one month before foaling to ensure colostral antibody protection against tetanus in the newborn foal.
A large loose box, bedded with straw, or a small clean paddock are ideal environments for the mare to foal in.
I have a yearling Arab colt, a pony, & lease an Arab mare that is in foal for late March 96.
She was due to foal in July.
They admired the new foal and a few other horses.
At the end of January, Princess gave birth to the first foal on the ranch that wasn't sired by Ed.
Most mares foal at night, but I think it may happen within a few hours.
Well, this foal will weigh in around 65 to 75 pounds.
I think it's a big foal, probably a colt.