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| What do you do to keep your mare comfortable?? This is my first mare and she is unbearable when cycling. Ideas that WORK please!!! | |
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Location: TEXAS | I've tried several different supplements and couldn't find one that really worked good on my mare. However, I have a gelding that all of a sudden started acting real 'studdy' when a new mare moved in next door (he was gelded before he was 2 and he's now 25 and I've never had problems with him until now). Anyway, I started feeding him raspberry leaves (which is supposed to be a good supplement for mares when they are cycling) and it calmed him right down; he's back to being a 'normal' gelding again. I have heard that chastetree berry is a good supplement for 'hormonal issues' but I have not tried it. | |
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Location: Kentucky | I would have a vet take a look at her to see if she has a cyst or any other problems. The majority mares aren't "that" bad when cycling. She could be in a pain. | |
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Location: SW North Dakota | Murphy - 2016-02-01 1:23 PM I would have a vet take a look at her to see if she has a cyst or any other problems. The majority mares aren't "that" bad when cycling. She could be in a pain.
My daughter's barrel horse is SUCH a puke when she cycles, and was coming in about every 2 weeks. She'd squeal, pee and want to kick at other horses. Her legs were coated in the thich yellow-white hooker goop. I took her to a good vet, had bloodwork and ultrasound done. All was normal, so he prescribed a monthly injection that keeps her from ever coming in. I will look tonight to see what it was. It's expensive ($140 a shot). He said there is no risk (other than normal risks when you stick any medicine into a horse) to her health or future reproduction options (doubtful I'd breed the hateful witch). The only drawback for me has been that I didn't know about it 3 years ago! | |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | If you want to try natural, raspberry leaves. Otherwise try a marble or regumate. You can certainly have her ultrasounded for cysts too. | |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | ND3canAddict - 2016-02-01 2:47 PM Murphy - 2016-02-01 1:23 PM I would have a vet take a look at her to see if she has a cyst or any other problems. The majority mares aren't "that" bad when cycling. She could be in a pain. My daughter's barrel horse is SUCH a puke when she cycles, and was coming in about every 2 weeks. She'd squeal, pee and want to kick at other horses. Her legs were coated in the thich yellow-white hooker goop. I took her to a good vet, had bloodwork and ultrasound done. All was normal, so he prescribed a monthly injection that keeps her from ever coming in. I will look tonight to see what it was. It's expensive ($140 a shot). He said there is no risk (other than normal risks when you stick any medicine into a horse) to her health or future reproduction options (doubtful I'd breed the hateful witch). The only drawback for me has been that I didn't know about it 3 years ago!
I'm kind of surprised she didn't have an infection if she had the yellow goop. | |
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| With the mare in my profile picture a few years ago, we were in the middle of going for some major all around awards at events, and we noticed that during her cycle, she would go in, win a class by a landslide, then we walk out, walk right back in for the next class, and she blows her top off. Just inconsistent and quite frankly, annoying! Since as soon as she did it, we might as well scratch every class left on the schedule for the day, because she was done.
So, we had hormone implants injected into her neck that stabilized the hormones during her cycle so she didn't have those mood swings. It worked GREAT! I mean, we could show all day long and she never batted an eye. Unfortunately, she was also a barrel horse in the fall/winter, and we noticed she was not as gritty and hard running with her implants so we noticed she was not clocking as well. It made her so much nicer to be around and more consistent, but it took that feistiness out of her that made her run well. Take your pick, I loved the implants, but when I stopped showing at the big all around events and went to barrel racing year around, we stopped putting them in so she would run harder. It all depends on whats important to you and works for your horse.
ETA: they are implanted on the mane side, so their mane will cover it most times, this is only minutes after it was done, it's like minor surgery so it doesn't look very pretty. haha But here we are 3 years after her last implant, and you can still feel where they were put, so it's not a minor thing at all.
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| Performance mare by oxygen. Brittany Pozzi uses it and so does Sheri Cervi on their mares. | |
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Location: SW North Dakota | wyoming barrel racer - 2016-02-02 10:23 AM ND3canAddict - 2016-02-01 2:47 PM Murphy - 2016-02-01 1:23 PM I would have a vet take a look at her to see if she has a cyst or any other problems. The majority mares aren't "that" bad when cycling. She could be in a pain. My daughter's barrel horse is SUCH a puke when she cycles, and was coming in about every 2 weeks. She'd squeal, pee and want to kick at other horses. Her legs were coated in the thich yellow-white hooker goop. I took her to a good vet, had bloodwork and ultrasound done. All was normal, so he prescribed a monthly injection that keeps her from ever coming in. I will look tonight to see what it was. It's expensive ($140 a shot). He said there is no risk (other than normal risks when you stick any medicine into a horse) to her health or future reproduction options (doubtful I'd breed the hateful witch). The only drawback for me has been that I didn't know about it 3 years ago!
I took her to a good vet who gave her a thorough exam- checking for cysts or other abnormalities with her business, did bloodwork, the works. Decided she was just "one of those." The shots made her a zillion times better. She still was her same gritty, half-unfriendly self, but she was consistant and no horsing. | |
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