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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TessBelle - 2014-07-17 12:18 PM I questioned the vet when she said we could breed her but kept saying she would be fine to breed. I'm kinda like the last poster said. It's not natural to have to give them something to keep them from loosing it. But if people do it with no side effects to mom or baby then maybe it would be worth it. I'm just gonna see how everything is when it's time to try agin next year.
What are y'all doing for the mare each time she sliped her foal? |
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Location: Sperry, OK | TessBelle - 2014-07-17 12:18 PM I questioned the vet when she said we could breed her but kept saying she would be fine to breed. I'm kinda like the last poster said. It's not natural to have to give them something to keep them from loosing it. But if people do it with no side effects to mom or baby then maybe it would be worth it. I'm just gonna see how everything is when it's time to try agin next year.
Coming from a vet tech that was an A.I. station for several QH race barns and the vet for TB barns too... you would not believe the amount of mares that need the extra help to carry a pregnancy. It take Progeterone (sp?) to carry a pregnancy and some mares just don't make enough naturally.. no reason why they shouldn't/can't use Regumate to provide the extra needed. No harm to horse or baby.
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Who Wants to Trade?
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| RacingQH - 2014-07-17 11:50 AMI would either let her be a pasture pet or send her down the road. I am NOT one to have to give drugs of ANY sort to a mare for her to hold a pregnancy. If they won't do it the "way nature intended", they are NOT going to be a broodmare for ME.
We have several mares that need regumate. They are upper teens or twenties...all are stakes producers and have more than earned the right to be bred. They all are breeding sound other than that and it didn't bother me in the least to help them out.
In this case it seems like there are a lot of gaps in management. If finances prevent you from managing a mare or pregnancy properly, I'd quit flushing money away.
Edited by kuhlmann 2014-07-17 1:28 PM
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Southtxponygirl - 2014-07-17 1:14 PM
TessBelle - 2014-07-17 12:18 PM I questioned the vet when she said we could breed her but kept saying she would be fine to breed. I'm kinda like the last poster said. It's not natural to have to give them something to keep them from loosing it. But if people do it with no side effects to mom or baby then maybe it would be worth it. I'm just gonna see how everything is when it's time to try agin next year.
What are y'all doing for the mare each time she sliped her foal?
Nothing. Am I suppose to be doing something? |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | I view horses as LIVESTOCK. My OPINION is that humans (in general) are NOT doing horses (in general) a favor by using so many artificial means to get foals. I firmly believe that reproductive issuse can be genetic. (I have seen too many times where daughters of problem mares are problem mares themselves for me to believe otherwise.) { Notice that above I said "CAN BE", not "always are". :) }
If folks want to go to extraordinary measures to get foals. that is their perogitive. (sp). Not everyone does. And no one is "wrong" for their beliefs.
Go ahead folks, FLAME AWAY. The OP ASKED for opinions and I gave mine. Remember, everyone is entitled to THEIR opinion, even if it isn't the same as yours.
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Location: Piedmont, OK | Don't just give her regumate because the vet recommends it. Test her progesterone levels and see if she needs it, something else could be the problem. Also sometimes thyroid problems can cause them to slip. If her progesterone is normal test for thyroid problems. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | TessBelle - 2014-07-17 1:46 PM Southtxponygirl - 2014-07-17 1:14 PM TessBelle - 2014-07-17 12:18 PM I questioned the vet when she said we could breed her but kept saying she would be fine to breed. I'm kinda like the last poster said. It's not natural to have to give them something to keep them from loosing it. But if people do it with no side effects to mom or baby then maybe it would be worth it. I'm just gonna see how everything is when it's time to try agin next year. What are y'all doing for the mare each time she sliped her foal? Nothing. Am I suppose to be doing something?
I would have her flushed out, to make sure shes has no infections going on inside. Talk to your vet about this. |
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Location: Kansas | Not sure when she is sliping (how far along), but have you checked the grasses, in you pastures? Fescue will abort them. I found out the hard way that I had it in my pastures and now know why the previous property owners kept the broodies, on a separate piece of ground. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | runnin hard - 2014-07-17 6:26 PM
Not sure when she is sliping (how far along), but have you checked the grasses, in you pastures? Fescue will abort them. I found out the hard way that I had it in my pastures and now know why the previous property owners kept the broodies, on a separate piece of ground.
We talked about this yesterday. I didn't know this about Fescue but no we don't have any. |
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