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Location: South of Georgia | Can you tell me the good, the bad and the ugly? Symptoms and treatment? |
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Location: TN | my daughters old rodeo mare used to get cysts on her ovaries. she would be x-tra hot and ****y. Did not want to lope in a small circle on the affected side. She would get a dose of HCG and in 5 days back to her normal marish self. Happend a couple of times a year usually in Spring time |
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Location: MI | horsingaround - 2015-09-11 9:36 PM
my daughters old rodeo mare used to get cysts on her ovaries. she would be x-tra hot and ****y. Did not want to lope in a small circle on the affected side. She would get a dose of HCG and in 5 days back to her normal marish self. Happend a couple of times a year usually in Spring time
How was this diagnosed? Just wondering, I have a mare that acts similarly and will get her palpated next time I bring her to the vet.
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| Ours would get really sore and *****y every cycle, she palpated fine, but at times she would fight letting us clean her foot she was so sore. The vet just placed the implants 2 weeks ago so were not sure how it will all play out. |
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| I used to have a mare that would get persistent CL during transition in the spring and fall. We would give her a shot of lutalyse and that would take care of the problem. Estrumate does the same thing without the side effects that lutalyse can temporarily cause. This mare's main symptom was that she was constantly standing.
I have another mare that would get a large cyst on her ovary each spring. Her ovary was huge. We gave her a shot to get rid of the cyst and then put her on Regumate and that solved the problem. I knew she was painful because when I cinched her she would reach around and try to bite me.
What your vet finds during the ultrasound will determine the treatment plan. |
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Location: South of Georgia | I'm assuming that each of these mares only had symptoms while cycling? My mare seems to have year round issues. She has been seen by several different vets and I'm not sure that the problem has been located. The process of elimination has been rather expensive. Lately, she has been picking up her right rear like she singling to kick but doesn't really kick out. She does it at different times and there is never anything there for her to be kicking at. She has done it in pasture, stall, and tied in barn. Sometimes it's after she has been ridden but not every time. |
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Location: Texas | Altrenogest |
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| The mare of ours that would get stuck during transition initally had issues through the winter prior to us identifying the issue. We had recently purchased her and the previous owners had her on regumate. We did not continue it with her and thought that her cycling was related to coming off of the Regumate. When it continued we had her ultrasounded and found the issue.
Have you ultrasounded before or is this your next step in trying to find what is causing her issue? |
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Location: South of Georgia | I have not had an ultrasound done on her ovaries. I have only had her palpated. I guess that's the next step m |
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Location: Central TX | mollibtexan - 2015-09-11 9:41 PM
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That's what I use on my mare. She doesn't cycle and we are happy ever after :) |
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| I've had problems with my mare leaning up against the stall and trailer walls, squeeling and kicking at them. When I let her out with my other mare she herds her around the paddock. Almost stallion like behaviors. We treated for ulcers, tried regumate- no change. We recently had labwork done to test for hormone deficiencies/ imbalances and it turns out she has very low levels of progesterone and elevated insulin. Not sure how the two affect one another but vet said it's usually a sign of cysts/tumors on the ovaries. He said she essentially isn't a cycling mare (yet had all the symptoms of going into heat). Next step is an HCG test and ultrasound. Very very curious to get to the bottom of this. |
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Location: Texas | common signs for mares with ovary problems are:
persistent heats
extra strong heats
painful heats- where they are very tender in the flank and kick out
stud like behavior
mounting
And theres several things that can be going on with the ovaries.. they could have a bunch of follicular cysts, there could be a granolas cell tumor, all sorts of stuff. |
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Location: Abbotsford B.C. Canada | I had a mare with major issues so finally removed her ovaries .one had a cyst internally only seen after biopsy .
I had her on regumate previous year and it helped but the vets could not see the malignant cyst on the surface of the one ovary invlved it was inside?
If it is an extrenal cyst ok, but just wanted to warn you a cyst is not always visible with US. The vet did not even guess it was a problem after the surgery looking at the ovary.
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Location: Kentucky | I will be getting my mare checked for ovary pain soon. She is not wanting to work, doesn't want to transition into gaits. Doesn't want to lope circles. She is also cinchy. I've treated for ulcers, EPM, CBC done, lameness check, chiro, teeth. Only thing left to check is ovaries. I'm hoping that will get her fixed up. She is also like this all the time, not just when she is in a heat cycle. |
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Location: California | KDHoof88 - 2015-09-13 10:54 AM
mollibtexan - 2015-09-11 9:41 PM
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That's what I use on my mare. She doesn't cycle and we are happy ever after : )
Me too...best thing ever! |
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