{"id":78,"date":"2005-07-01T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-07-01T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T16:43:23","slug":"breeding-for-next-year-whens-the-best-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/breeding-for-next-year-whens-the-best-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeding for next year &#8211; when&#8217;s the best time???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We have a mare that we would like to raise a colt out of for next year. I&#8217;m new to this and was wondering when would we want to breed her in order to have a colt next spring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The gestation period for horses is approx. 11 months (most mares deliver within 338-340 days).  I prefer that my foals are born in temperate weather if possible so I usually don&#8217;t start breeding until after April 1.<br \/>\nMartha Wright<\/p>\n<p>Have a question for Martha? Send it to: trainerscorner@ebarrelracing.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a mare that we would like to raise a colt out of for next year. I&#8217;m new to this and was wondering when would we want to breed her in order to have a colt next spring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}