Three new foals expected this spring on Assateague

What do you call a horse that, for reasons yet unknown to park personnel, is immune to administered contraceptives? On Assateague National Seashore, you’d call her Mom and you wouldn’t be alone.

Carol’s Girl, a.k.a. N2BHS, has given birth to 22 foals over the years, due to her unique immunity, and she’s due for another sometime this spring. Carol’s Girl is one of three pregnant mares on the island, the others being Jojo and Charmed, up from last year’s one.

That one was not Carol’s Girl, since she had given birth the previous year and was still nursing. It was Jojo, biological technician Allison Turner said, who may have had a brief span of fertility after delivering her foal last year, before the hormones that protected Carol’s Girl last year kicked in.

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