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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | I have a wonderful 22 year old mare for whom I've booked a boyfriend for 2017. She has been the smartest, soundest, healthiest horse I've ever owned, and I'm going to try to get one baby out of her for myself to keep. I've not been in a position to be raising colts for a while, so she's not had a baby since she was 12. She's been retired, used for the occasional lesson, and the past few years, been toting my boys around. I did try to breed her (live cover) in 2015 and she didn't breed due to fluid in her uterus. I'd gotten started late, and it got late enough in the year that I only tried to clean her out once, then gave up and used my breeding on a different mare in 2016.
She is in excellent health, overall. I am sure that she will need a "clean-out" before attempting to breed her this spring, and I'm wondering when I need to start that process if I want to try to breed her in late March to early April? I don't want to put her under lights, and I don't want a baby due before March, but I also do not want one born during the heat of summer. |
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Location: Cali | I'd say never to early, but get her under lights now, if not already. Clean & flush after 30 days, not much longer. By the time vet comes Bach to check fluid you'll have a good idea how / if she is cycling.
I bred a geriatric mare for the first time in awhile last year.
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | Whiteboy - 2016-12-09 2:30 PM
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SC Kansas. I have a pretty good repro vet about 45 min from me and plan to use him for the cleanout and AI procedures. |
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Hummer's Hero
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | lottarate - 2016-12-09 2:32 PM
I'd say never to early, but get her under lights now, if not already. Clean & flush after 30 days, not much longer. By the time vet comes Bach to check fluid you'll have a good idea how / if she is cycling.
I bred a geriatric mare for the first time in awhile last year.
Good luck
She is not under lights and I'd prefer to let her come in on her own. She always has, only didn't breed because of the fluid. But she does cycle. Never been a horrible mare that tells the whole world, but I can tell when she's in. |
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That's White "Man" to You
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| I'd get a great repro vet. It will save you money in the long run. She might be cycling normal by then. In Utah, mine are transitional until the end of April. I'd be sure to check progesterone levels, after you get her in foal. |
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