ADVICE NEEDED - IS MY MARE IN FOAL!?

Ditto the above, if your vet is not competent enough to feel an 8-10mth old foal then they really need to go back to vet school!!!! - the vet should be able to shake hands with it at this stage!!!:D
 
Im told if the foal is at this stage then they can be difficult to feel as they sit lower down and can be sometimes out of reach, however im not atall happy with the professionalism of the practice concerned as i called to speak to a different vet and was informed it was infact a student who has made the visit to my mare,:eek::mad:

WHAT A JOKE. i have lost faith! Blood tests tomorrow :|


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Shocking that a mare that is potentially 8-11months pregnant can not be detected by a vet. Now you have found out it's a student i hope to god ur not paying for that visit.

I wouldn't personally bother with blood tests just a repro vet that knows what they are doing would be helpful
 
I have already paid for this visit as it was pay on the day, the only thing this vet has offered is to not charge a call out charge to take blood tests. This whole thing is now extremley frustrating :mad:
 
Sound Very stupid ...But..:o

Have you watched her belly, mainly around the back end & under near the teats
When it was suggested my mare was pregnant i stood back to look at her and all of a sudden it looked like she had an alien in there:p and after that i was posative

Sure enough i got a little BOGOF about 2months later :D
 
Thank you spellbound, me too, off to the yard to have her bloods taken soon hopefully wont take long for the results to come back with answers. Feel so sorry for her getting poked and prodded when it all could of been sorted in the one day :(

Will let everyone know what they show up, i will not be using this vet again that is for sure :mad:
 
staceyryder said:
Im told if the foal is at this stage then they can be difficult to feel as they sit lower down and can be sometimes out of reach, however im not atall happy with the professionalism of the practice concerned as i called to speak to a different vet and was informed it was infact a student who has made the visit to my mare,:eek::mad:
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It can be difficult to actually find the foal when they're low down - but there's a hell of a difference between a pregnant uterus and an empty one. . Frankly, if a vet allowed a student to rectal one of my mares - even right in front of him - without my express agreement then I would be reporting him to RCVS! And students should NEVER be sent out on their own!

DON'T pay the bill - tell them you will be reporting them to RCVS - and find a new vet!
 
TOTALLY agree with JanetGeorge - my vets can come in and tell you whether a horse is likely to be pregnant just from the feel of the uterus at 14 -16 days farless as late as your mare is! Written complain would be going to practice and the RCVS!!!
 
Ditto Janet George and change your vet !! Having a student to do stuff like this is baaaadd

Keep us updated x

PS I'm going for is in foal
 
after recent pics - i change my mind.... im going for foal lol!!


p.s - pls report them to the RCVS !!! thats discusting sending out a student - alone!!!! :o
 
Lol, they were taking this morning and were apparently posted off straight away so the lab should receive them tomorrow and are fairly quick, im hoping by friday i will have a definate answer, the vet said they will ring me when results are faxed over but obviously im gunna case them until then :o
 
And also i am confident that the vet seen to my mare was not a student but in fact newly qualified, still you would imagine they would send a more experienced vet out to handle such a situation. Thank you for everyones advice on this matter!!
 
Well just be warned that when a blood test was done (in a December so should have been nearly 7 months in foal) on my mare which was out on loan to a vet nurse many moons ago, the results came back as negative so she was left out on the banks to be a wild woolly pony with no additional feed other than hay until she was taken back to the stud in March for her free return. Yes, you've guessed it, she was in foal! According to her vet a positive could also be a negative but a negative is always a negative! Proved him wrong! I've only ever trusted scans or manual confirmation since.
I hope detection has improved since then for your sake but if she's so close to a probable date I'm amazed that you haven't seen foal movements at some time. A good time is while they're relaxed and eating, just wait and watch quietly away from her for anything up to half hour and you should see them playing football in there - if they're there of course.
 
I'm pretty sure students aren't allowed to go out to clients unaccompanied, even in their final year, so I would definitely be having words with/ changing your vets. It it was a nqv they should have made sure they had plenty of repro experience, which they may not have had if it was not a particular interest of theirs. (My daughter took her self off to USA to spend time studying repro because she wants to specialise in this.)
 
I will definately look into it further and find out, either way i feel i have been messed about more than enough :mad:

MAESFEN - How long did you await the results of you bloods tests to come back? i have been told that the rate is 95% sucessful although you can still get false negatives its rare much like human pregnancy tests, im hoping if she is as far as 8-11 months her hormone levels should be high enough to detect wether she is, although when they are nearer to foaling the levels drop again :|

Ahhh! :eek: id have better luck having a go of rectaling myself and having a good old root round LOL
 
What I don't understand is, that if your mare's in foal, and to be honest I'd have my doubts, then why a competent vet can't feel the foal by hand and by rectal examination, is beyond me. During the advanced stages of pregnancy, so I'm told, scanning is not the preferred testing system, but hand contact is. That's how we test cattle.

Looking at your mare, she really is very well!! The forming of a bag, could either be a false pregnancy, or fat deposits.

As others, I'd like to hear the outcome. Good luck!!

Alec.
 
staceyryder said:
Ahhh! :eek: id have better luck having a go of rectaling myself and having a good old root round LOL
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Have to admit (without appearing to have a very norty mind) that I had to read this twice . . . you did mean: "I'd have better luck if I gave my mare a rectal examination myself" . . . rather than "I'd have more luck rectaling myself" . . . right?

Made me smile though.

Hope you figure out soon whether your mare is in foal (or not).

P
 
PolarSkye said:
Have to admit (without appearing to have a very norty mind) that I had to read this twice . . . you did mean: "I'd have better luck if I gave my mare a rectal examination myself" . . . rather than "I'd have more luck rectaling myself" . . . right?

Made me smile though.

Hope you figure out soon whether your mare is in foal (or not).

P
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HAHAHA :D YES! That is indeed what i did mean, made me LOL too :p

I hope i figure out if she is soon too ive rang the vet no blood results back yet.

Im close to bloody giving up :(
 
Nope no news yet, im hoping they are back before 3pm tomorrow or il have the weekend to wait too :(

The more i wait the more i think shes not in foal, shes nowhere near big enough to drop and the dates she was with the stallion dont make sence as she would be getting ready to foal any day now:confused:

Never the less here is some vids of her letting off some steam after a few days off, you may be able to get a better view of her tummy on this, quality isnt too good tho and she doesnt keep still for long!




 
Not to scare you But.. somedays i would look at mine and she would look slimmer than the gelding in the field next toher, next minute she would look like shes carrying twins

She may have a small foal or be keeping it well hidden

i will watch the vids when im home, good luck either way :)
 
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