If you have to bottle feed a foal how often do you want to this?

Orphan foals should only be fed by bottle until they can be trained to a bucket.

Unless the milk replacer is the type that can remain in a bucket for many hours a newborn foal will have to be fed every few hours (2-3) for several days.

Once trained to drink from a bucket the milk replacer (the type that is designed for long term feeding) can be fed free choice. Depending on the time of year the milk can get quite nasty with drowned flies, so more frequent refills/ cleanings are advisable.

The advantages of bucket training and the use of a replacer that allows free choice feeding:

1) Foal is less fixated on the caretaker which makes it easier to train

2) Caretaker is less exhausted, especially initially, by frequent feedings