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Location: the end of the rainbow | anybody else have a hard time getting vets to use them? I've struck out 3 times now. I know I live in the sticks (especially when it comes to equine medicine) but even I am beginning to rethink this idea. |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | I had a hard time finding any vets that still use them this summer. My vet back home in Utah said he would do it but that would have been an 18 hour round trip for me. |
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Location: Online | A Utah vet is the only one I could find who will inject them. Other vet's I've talked to claim there isn't enough proof that they actually work. I've had 3 mares with implants and I can tell you, they work. Since that vet is about 9 hour round trip, I go with the progesterone shots. Just 1 cc once a week. Easy peasy. They work just as good. One bottle will last most of the summer and it's about $60.
I refuse to use Regumate. Too dangerous for women to use. |
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pressure dripper
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Location: the end of the rainbow | Do you happen to know the brand name of the shot you give? The shots my vet gave me we considerably more expensive. Thank you. |
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 I Don't Brag
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| IMHO, they are only a temporary fix anyways. After they wear off, the problems come back.....worse! I have had 2 mares with serious pain issues from multiple, retained follicles and went through the wringer trying everything out there natural and scientific and none were a long term solution. Ended up spaying them both...best thing I could have done for them.
Now can someone explain to me why it is so much harder to sell a spayed mare than a gelding???! |
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| My vet does it.
I think the perception with spayed mares vs geldings is you hardly ever see a spayed mare. People think there must be something wrong with her you don't want passed on. I'd seriously think about doing it with a mare who had rough seasons or follicle issues. |
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Location: Arkansas | Didn't work for my mare anyway.... |
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| rodeoveteran - 2014-10-14 2:05 PM
IMHO, they are only a temporary fix anyways. After they wear off, the problems come back.....worse! I have had 2 mares with serious pain issues from multiple, retained follicles and went through the wringer trying everything out there natural and scientific and none were a long term solution. Ended up spaying them both...best thing I could have done for them.
Now can someone explain to me why it is so much harder to sell a spayed mare than a gelding???!
It works fantastic on mares that only need it to take the edge off, like my mare.
I will never, ever have a spayed mare in my barn. They have no pros. They still act like mares, but they can't be bred. What is the point of it? Buy a dang gelding! No Mare Drama. That is my opinion for why Spayed doesn't sell the same as geldings. If you can't handle the mare as a full mare, send her down the road if none of these work. I do not see a point in spaying. |
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I Don't Brag
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| FlyingHigh1454 - 2014-10-14 11:17 PM
rodeoveteran - 2014-10-14 2:05 PM
IMHO, they are only a temporary fix anyways. After they wear off, the problems come back.....worse! I have had 2 mares with serious pain issues from multiple, retained follicles and went through the wringer trying everything out there natural and scientific and none were a long term solution. Ended up spaying them both...best thing I could have done for them.
Now can someone explain to me why it is so much harder to sell a spayed mare than a gelding???!
It works fantastic on mares that only need it to take the edge off, like my mare.
I will never, ever have a spayed mare in my barn. They have no pros. They still act like mares, but they can't be bred. What is the point of it? Buy a dang gelding! No Mare Drama. That is my opinion for why Spayed doesn't sell the same as geldings. If you can't handle the mare as a full mare, send her down the road if none of these work. I do not see a point in spaying.
If you had one in as much PAIN as either of the two mares I spayed, you might rethink your position. I bought both of these mares to run, as in performance, which they could not do with the pain that multiple, retained follicles were causing them.
How would YOU like an ovary the size of a grapefruit when it should be the size of a walnut?? That is what I was dealing with, and getting rid of the pain that caused was "the point".
Mare drama had nothing to do with it in my case. |
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I'm not opinionated
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Location: Online | willrodeo4food - 2014-10-14 7:59 AM Do you happen to know the brand name of the shot you give? The shots my vet gave me we considerably more expensive. Thank you.
It's called Hydroxyprgesterone. From Wickliffe Veterinary Pharmacy. $45 for a 10 ml bottle, $60 for 20 ml. It has a short shelf life so if you are only treating 1 mare you are better getting the 10 ml bottle at a time, which will cost a little more. Next year I will most likely have 3 mares on it.
It doesn't completely stop her heat cycles, but it makes them way more bearable. Her in heat days go from 8 days to 3 days. She gets big follicles and her uterus gets extremely inflammed, to the point of severe pain that bute and banamine won't touch. These shots are the only way to do it. I will not spay her, I still want the option of breeding open. |
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