Abortion injection and horses in season

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Seren11

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Hi, I havn't really posted on here before but I could do with some advice or if anyone has been in a simmilar stuation about what happens with the abortion injection and how to check if a horse is in season.

I went to check up on my two year old filly in the field two weeks ago and found that a stallion had escaped from his stable and was running with the mares. I put the stallion back in the stable and brought my filly in to check her over. She was in season and had scuff marks on her back that suggested that the stallion had serviced her. As I feel she is far too young to have a foal and I am starting to bring her on in her training I contacted the vet who gave her an abortion injection last week and said that if it has worked she should come back into season within three to five days. Today is the fifth day and there is still no sign that she is in season. I was wondering if anyone had any experiences of having to give their horses an abortion injection and or advice about how I can tell if she is in season. If there are no signs that she is in season tomorrow I will probably ring the vet and see what needs to happen next.

Thank you.
 
The shot doesn't always work first time. Sometimes you have to give it a couple of times. The vet will be able to scan her as at 14 days he'll be able to see if there is a pregnancy.

I have known some people who use Equest Gel to abort early pregnancies in the past. Perhaps the ingredients are different now but they said it worked.
 
Yeah the vet did mention that but said to wait to see if she comes into season first and that she would have to wait for a few more weeks to be able to get a clear scan of a foal, but I will probably have her scanned just to be sure.
 
Seren11 said:
Yeah the vet did mention that but said to wait to see if she comes into season first and that she would have to wait for a few more weeks to be able to get a clear scan of a foal, but I will probably have her scanned just to be sure.
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Then your vet does not know about reproduction and I would have a repro vet come and scan rather than waste your money with this vet. The earliest pregnancy we detected this year was at 10 days (I had the mare scanned early to fit in with some others who were at their regular 16 day scans). If she is not pregnant then the repro vet will be able to see where she is in her cycle :)
 
Spring Feather said:
Then your vet does not know about reproduction and I would have a repro vet come and scan rather than waste your money with this vet. The earliest pregnancy we detected this year was at 10 days (I had the mare scanned early to fit in with some others who were at their regular 16 day scans). If she is not pregnant then the repro vet will be able to see where she is in her cycle :)
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Thanks for that I will see if I can get her scanned as soon as possible then.
 
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