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Foal

This article is about young equines. For the English band, see Foals (band).
A foal with its dam
A foal with its dam

A foal is a horse that is one year old or younger. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal. When the foal is nursing its dam (mother), it may also be called a suckling. After the young horse has been weaned from its dam, it may be called a weanling. After it is one year old, it is no longer a foal, and is called a yearling. There are no special age-related terms for young horses older than yearlings. When young horses reach breeding maturity, the terms change: a filly over the age of three (four in horse racing) is called a mare and a colt over the age of three is called a stallion. A castrated male horse is called a gelding, regardless of age. (There is no specific term for a spayed female horse, they are simply "spayed mares".)

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