title: Coprophagia as seen in thoroughbred foals.
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.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003303:Coprophagia; D003672:Defecation; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D006734:Horse Diseases; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008409:Mastication