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Location: Randolph, Utah | Anyone have experience spaying a mare. Pros? Cons? Cost? Recovery time?
Was it worth it? |
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| A friend of mine had a mare done because she was a wretched winch. She is now a wretched winch that can't reproduce. It did absolutely nothing for her attitude. |
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Location: Texas | I ran a mare that had been spayed by the previous owner. I didn't know the mare prior to her being spayed but I think she was pretty uncomfortable due to cysts or something. I never had any issues with the mare after she was spayed. She was very sweet and worked great. |
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  That's White "Man" to You
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| We spayed one. She was terrible and vet was sure it was becasue of cysts on her ovaries. She is still just as bad. Cost me about $400 and took about 8 weeks to recover. |
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Location: TN | I spayed my mare and would do it again under same circumstances. She had very painful heat cycles. The bouncing of trailer ride was terrible for her. We would unload her to find her hips a bloody mess where she had been rubbing against stall dividers. She broke dividers twice. When you saddled her she would almost go to her knees, and that was before you even cinched her up. When you got on, she again felt like she was going to her knees, sometimes she did go down. $400 surgery $600 vet care and 3 weeks later she was back to work; almost like a gelding now. Best thing I did for THAT mare. But do your research first and talk to as many vets as possible. Hopefully you will get more replies. A full sister of hers,that acts similar but not nearly as bad, gets Regumate. |
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| Make sure you try Regumate before going that far and spaying them, unless its a legitimate health problem.
Most mares that are spayed for behavior issues are not going to improve by spaying them. So if that's why your considering it, sell the horse, because a mare will be a mare whether she can breed or not. haha |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I would have a thorough repro exam and lameness exam done on the mare first. There may be a huge reason reproductively that is making her sore, that wouldn't necessarily require a spay but maybe just removing one ovary if she only has a problem with one.. or, they could be perfectly fine and it may be something else.
Just remember, when you spay a mare, they are still capable of showing some sort of heat. They won't ovulate anymore, so if there's pain associated with ovulating that will help. But what keeps a horse out of heat is the progesterone produced by the CL after an ovulation. There's enough estrogen floating around from other sources that, without the ovaries, will cause a spayed mare to always be receptive to a stallion/gelding for breeding. That is why they used ovariectomized mares as tease mares for stallions- no negative feedback from the ovary to say no. |
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