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Mother Referred: The animal is s one year older on January 1. (In Austra-ugust 1 is the official birthday.) Before the ; first birthday, it is referred to as a foal. separated from its mother during the ear, it is called a weanling. Between the nd second birthday, it is a yearling. At sars of age, the thoroughbred is eligible for male five years old or more is called a From its second to fifth birthday, it is a colt. A female in its second to fifth year is a filly, and after that, a mare. The female is a broodmare when it becomes a mother. The sire is the horse's father; the dam, its mother. A stallion is a producing male but not officially a sire until one of its progeny wins a race. A gelding is a castrated (unsexed) male horse.
Gestation takes 16 days; 7-15 in litter; young born pink, naked, and blind. Do not disturb young or mother for at least a week after birth; if disturbed mother will either kill and eat the young or neglect them and allow them to die. After 3 weeks, remove young from mother; otherwise, mother fights with them and often kills them. Sexes should be separated before young reach maturity at 43 days.
The most interesting of the calotypes are casual views of Lacock Abbey: the barn, with a ladder against it; a haystack; or The Open Door, revealing a dark interior, with a broom leaning against the jamb—perhaps the picture that Talbot's mother referred to as "the soliloquy of the broom."2 Talbot wrote opposite this plate:
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