Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Coprophagia as seen in thoroughbred foals.
- Journal:
- Equine veterinary journal
- Year:
- 1977
- Authors:
- Francis-Smith, K & Wood-Gush, D G
- Species:
- horse
Abstract
Four Thoroughbred foals were seen to quickly eat part of the faeces deposited by their own dams on some 40 per cent of the mare-defaecating occasions observed between the second and fifth week after birth. They did not do it before or after this period. This behaviour was thought to be a feeding pattern which formed a normal part of the foal's development.
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