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| Used2B - 2014-10-02 8:53 AM Murphy - 2014-10-02 8:14 AM RodeoRider97 - 2014-10-01 6:28 PM Yes, but she'd be eating fescue in the pasture and fescue would prevent her from having any milk, and she gets hand walked 15-30 minutes everyday, twice a day she even goes walking with me down the road in the mornings. But it's not like this is the first time it has happened. Ever since we got her, (even the people before who had her since she was 1) she's been a stall kicker. And I'm getting really tired of replacing wood boards and I don't want to have to keep buying rubber mats either. Fescue causes them to have a red bag, it doesn't cause them to not produce milk.
I would throw hay in the round pen and let her stay in there. I won't have a horse destroying my barn. Exactly...eating fescue has nothing to do with milk production. Fescue can cause the placenta to be thickened which could prevent the foal from being able to break through the sack but it won't happen from eating fescue for a few days from a lot until its a dry lot. I'd do whatever it took to get her out of that stall.
Fescue CAN in fact cause agalactia...no milk production. |
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| here is a link for percentages of mares that were agalactic when on fescue
http://forages.oregonstate.edu/tallfescuemonograph/endophyte_horses/toxicosis/gravid_mares/agalactia
Edited by bennie1 2014-10-02 10:55 AM
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| You will cause more delivery problems by this mare not getting enough regular exercise than the small amount of fescue she would possibly consume in the arena or round pen until it is gone. It is not fair to this mare to be stall kept other than a few minutes of hand walking a day. Figure it out, it's not that hard. |
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Location: USA | Ok, first off I'm not making excuses, secondly I didn't want her bred, I was still cometeting with her and she just got the barrels figured out and was making an easy 3-D time my father wanted to breed her. Don't know why, just one of his "Brilliant" ideas. and now, he's finally realizing that she's not the one to have bred. I didn't even like the stud, but his friend who owns the stud talked him into it. And I don't have a say. And I'm not allowed to work daddy's old tractor but I will to get her out today, and he also said he ain't going to put her out and use the tractor because it'll wash away all his dirt! Ugh! Our arena isn't the best and it runs off really bad not to just one corner but all the way out of the arena. We're putting in rail road ties at the end to keep the dirt from washing but with only a little rain it's already got the dirt half way on them. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | So when actually is this baby due? When you posted in September and said 3 months are you going to have a December baby?? |
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Location: Lost in the corn of Iowa. | If you were to keep her in a small pen of some sort, could you put another horse in there with her to give her a buddy until baby comes? Sounds like she's ticked because she can't get to her pasture mates. |
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Location: Wyoming | RodeoRider97 - 2014-10-02 11:31 AM
Ok, first off I'm not making excuses, secondly I didn't want her bred, I was still cometeting with her and she just got the barrels figured out and was making an easy 3-D time my father wanted to breed her. Don't know why, just one of his "Brilliant" ideas. and now, he's finally realizing that she's not the one to have bred. I didn't even like the stud, but his friend who owns the stud talked him into it. And I don't have a say. And I'm not allowed to work daddy's old tractor but I will to get her out today, and he also said he ain't going to put her out and use the tractor because it'll wash away all his dirt! Ugh! Our arena isn't the best and it runs off really bad not to just one corner but all the way out of the arena. We're putting in rail road ties at the end to keep the dirt from washing but with only a little rain it's already got the dirt half way on them.
I feel for you... I know what it's like to have a controlling hardheaded parent. I have a house on my grandparents place and I'm constantly butting heads with my grandpa while trying to make improvements for the horses. My only advice is to tell him for the mares physical and mental health she needs to be turned out on a dry lot with hay. After all it's only going to be temporary. Make sure to drive in the point that it's only for a few months! |
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| Put kick chains on her back legs and that should stop the stall kicking. I've used them and they are a very quick fix for pawing when used on the front feet and for kicking when used on the back ankles or when placed around the hocks. You can get them on-line at places like Jeffers or even on Amazon.com Be sure to get the kind that are fleece lined. |
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Location: USA | Yes the baby is due sometime early December- early January. I don't like them born that early but again...my dad but then on the brighter side of that I can start riding her again March/April.
And she's already a sassy/moody type of mare and with the hormones it just magnifies it 10X and even when she's not pregnant she still kicks the walls. But I'll have to check that out about the kicking chains, thank you :) |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | You can make the kicking chains pretty cheap. I just buy nylon dog collars and some heavy chain. Attached chain to dog collar and there you have it. |
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