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| Barrel horse 4 months pregnant. First time during this-when should you stop barrel racing? When you stop what about trail rides or lite exercises. When would you switch foods (12% pellets now) mare and foal feeds. Probably more questions later. Thanks |
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Location: Oklahoma | We dont ride our pregnant mares. If they are bred that is their JOB... Its too expensive to raise colts to risk the mare and or foal during gestation, JMO. :) |
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| I rode my mare (trotting/ loping/breezing the pattern) not knowing she was bred until she was around 7 months. She and the baby were fine. It was her first foal and she was 7. I know some that keep their mares in shape while pregnant with light excersise. I dont think light riding should cause you any problems. Her age, health, ect probably should be considered as well. If unsure speak to your vet. |
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Location: Where its cold and hot | We have a 9 yr old mare that is due for a January foal, she made her last run end of September. Her baby belly started showing in September. She has been on Omalene 300 the entire time of her pregnancy. We haven't had any issues. First time pregnancy for this mare and she is in perfect health. |
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| Runnin < C > - 2014-10-20 7:29 PM
We dont ride our pregnant mares. If they are bred that is their JOB... Its too expensive to raise colts to risk the mare and or foal during gestation, JMO. :)
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i dont ride my broodmares..i just let them be mamma's thats a stressfull enough job imo
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Location: Central Texas | HorseMommyFiveO - 2014-10-21 12:19 PM
Runnin < C > - 2014-10-20 7:29 PM
We dont ride our pregnant mares. If they are bred that is their JOB... Its too expensive to raise colts to risk the mare and or foal during gestation, JMO. :)
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Location: Missouri | ampratt - 2014-10-21 12:52 PM HorseMommyFiveO - 2014-10-21 12:19 PM Runnin < C > - 2014-10-20 7:29 PM We dont ride our pregnant mares. If they are bred that is their JOB... Its too expensive to raise colts to risk the mare and or foal during gestation, JMO. :) Same here. Same here.
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Location: Texas | Lone Wolf - 2014-10-20 7:26 PM
Barrel horse 4 months pregnant. First time during this-when should you stop barrel racing? When you stop what about trail rides or lite exercises. When would you switch foods (12% pellets now) mare and foal feeds. Probably more questions later. Thanks
I stop riding altogether once they are sent to the vet to get bred. I don't ride again until the baby is a couple months old after mom has nursed a while and her weight is maintained ONLY if I am not rebreeding and plan to run them again. I've had enough fun with vet bills and getting mares in foal there is no way I would risk voiding a LFG or losing a foal to keep them running. And usually, a barrel horse could use a nice year off.. doesn't hurt them to rest. I did that with my mare, and got back on her in September. She's been 1D every run with me since I've been back on her.
I would switch to a 14% feed now, but you do not have to increase feed until late gestation. Thats when the foal starts growing really fast.
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I let my mare be a Momma... |
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Location: Oklahoma | My mare really seems to go down hill if I don't ride her some while she's pregnant. Her top line go's and she seems depressed. I ride her lightly 2 or 3 days a week and will let her lope a pattern now and then. I'll use her to pony her yearling at the walk too. She's been much happier and looks amazing again since I've stared riding her. Flame away... |
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| I rode all of my mares up until they were visibly uncomfortable. Most of them ran as well up until 7-9 mo. If they are already doing it and are already fit, it's not any different than a pregnant woman who is already fit and already doing an activity. If you pull an out of shape mare in and ask her to run, that's hard on her. And keeping your mare fit will make for an easy delivery. I never had a single problem with any of my mares and likely 15-20 foals delivered were from mares that were run while pregnant. Full vet support.
I dislike people that take a "better than thou" approach because they don't ride their broodmares. Fine, no worries, but not everyone has a broodmare band. Some people have 1 or 2 mares and they need or want to continue a season with them. If the mare is physically capable and your vet is ok with it, don't worry about their opinion.
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Location: Kentucky | SpottedT - 2014-10-22 10:15 AM I rode all of my mares up until they were visibly uncomfortable. Most of them ran as well up until 7-9 mo. If they are already doing it and are already fit, it's not any different than a pregnant woman who is already fit and already doing an activity. If you pull an out of shape mare in and ask her to run, that's hard on her. And keeping your mare fit will make for an easy delivery. I never had a single problem with any of my mares and likely 15-20 foals delivered were from mares that were run while pregnant. Full vet support. I dislike people that take a "better than thou" approach because they don't ride their broodmares. Fine, no worries, but not everyone has a broodmare band. Some people have 1 or 2 mares and they need or want to continue a season with them. If the mare is physically capable and your vet is ok with it, don't worry about their opinion.
I'm not better than anyone, but breeding is expensive no matter how you look at it. I think of it as protecting my investment. I only have 1 broodmare and she is the queen bee on my property because she is carrying a lot of money around in that belly.
As far as wanting to keeping running the mare while she is pregnant, I think you should choose 1.) do you want to breed or 2.) do you want to run.
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Location: Gainesville, TX | I focus mainly on breeding, not riding. As someone pointed out, you can void your LFG. Thus all of my broodies are only broodies. That being said, I know my husband rode his calf roping mare while pregnant in high school. On her first, they didn't realize that the stud had gotten to her at all. He roped on her one day and she foaled the next. No problems. On the next one she had I think he rode her up through about 7 months with no issues. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i dont think anybody took a "better than thou" approach to this....im with the ladies that say its expensive to get a mare in foal and have a healthy baby, because it is...i have 3 mares at home so not a big band of broodmares and im particular about the studs i pick.....
if you want a baby out of a mare that you want to continue to run do embryo transfer...imo
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| SpottedT - 2014-10-22 9:15 AM I rode all of my mares up until they were visibly uncomfortable. Most of them ran as well up until 7-9 mo. If they are already doing it and are already fit, it's not any different than a pregnant woman who is already fit and already doing an activity. If you pull an out of shape mare in and ask her to run, that's hard on her. And keeping your mare fit will make for an easy delivery. I never had a single problem with any of my mares and likely 15-20 foals delivered were from mares that were run while pregnant. Full vet support. I dislike people that take a "better than thou" approach because they don't ride their broodmares. Fine, no worries, but not everyone has a broodmare band. Some people have 1 or 2 mares and they need or want to continue a season with them. If the mare is physically capable and your vet is ok with it, don't worry about their opinion.
I can agree with that. If you dont want to run/ride your mare fine, thats totally up to you but if you do thats ok as well because its your horse, your investment..so others opinions dont really matter. |
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| I know of someone who bred their mare and didn't ride them all summer, but pulled them out the end of August for a week to run Finals, then laid them off until after the baby came and it was fine.
Than again, I know of a different person that did the same thing and their mare ended up losing the baby mid September.
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| Thanks everybody for the feedback. Appreciate it. |
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