Advice please breeding peeps

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I have been offered a mare that I plan to have as a broodmare only, my plan was to put her straight in foal (I know it’s getting late now) as my own mare is now about 36 days in foal and thought it would be nice for next year having 2 foals together, obviously assuming she gets in foal. Will give it one try this year & continue in the spring, if not.

These are my concerns:

Taking the mare away from her home that she’s known for the last 4+ years.
Sending her off to stud/vet.
Bringing her to new home (mine).

Just wondering would this be too much stress for her or am I being a woos!

Yes, I could take her now, let her settle in & start in the Spring but the main reason for taking her now is as mentioned above.

The owners would like this mare to go asap & she has had foals before.

Any advice would be gratefully appreciated.
 
Reproductively speaking, you can put her on Regumate during all the "stressful" stuff, which has been shown to prevent stress-related reproductive loss in some mares. She can then be weaned off Regumate from around day 45.

Otherwise, I guess it's fairly subjective and depends on the mare
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Would be exciting for you to have two babies on the way next year!
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Yes, you're being a wuss! Only joking but if you don't crack on it will be too late for this year.

I bought Sasha and the kind owners took her to stud for me, then when she was ready, she came straight back here and settled straight away as she has company (she's keeping the boys in hand, done wonders for Freddy's boyness!) Any chance they could deliver her to stud or at least if you collect her, you take her straight to stud, don't bring her home first, that's the easiest way to my mind. Stud will have to do swabs anyway so she'll settle, particularly if she's been to studs before.
Who are you thinking of using this time? (Good luck BTW!)
 
Good thinking - I think I'm just a big softie & I worry constantly about "what they're going through" - yes it would be lovely to have 2 next year. A lot of thanks to you I'm having one. Ooh better reword that - my mare is having one
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I guess the key issue, as you say, is that it is getting a bit late in the year ... But AP has posted much advice on this, and the best way to try and insure that you stand the highest chance of getting your mare in foal first try.

We "acquired" a brood mare last year through word of mouth, who had been with her owner for about 8 years, I think, and had been out 24/7. A very self-opinionated chestnut mare! She was with us in her new home briefly before being sent away to the stud to be AI'd. The greatest stress for her seemed to be being stabled, and she would pace quite a bit, but apart from that she settled incredibly quickly when she came "home" to us. It was certainly important that she was turned out with a couple of other mares, so that she settled quickly into the herd, and I'm sure this helped....

I think that if you plan carefully for them to integrate as soon as possible with new companions, they are often much more adaptable than we give them credit for! (And Abbey is exactly the type of temperament that you would imagine would be the trickiest to settle in a new home). I hope that this helps reassure you a bit!
 
Thanks MFH - the mare is only up the road from me. I will probably just send her to the vets again, they're less than an hour away and are fantastic. I am booking the scan in today to see where she is in season etc, and to just check that she's clean & there are no problems within.

I don't think she's particularly stressy but you know what it's like, I also don't want to bring her back to mine yet until my own mare has passed 50 days ish because she will kick up. I may put her next door with my neighbour until they are both passed their 50 days, or again, am I being a wimp?

Gonna use the same stallion as I've used on my own mare and then next year I fancy putting her to a lovely SJ stallion, it's just too late this year to be running around looking & making decisions. It's easier for me this way.
 
Thanks RBM - I have 3 mares at home, my in foal mare, my riding mare & a companion mare. I think I will ask my lovely neighbour if my companion mare & the new mare can stay there for a couple of months & then bring them back to mine in the winter. My in foal & riding mare are very much bonded so the companion mare & new mare could hopefully bond.

Yes it is getting late now but I am a lot more on the ball with how things work than when I started. Vets are brilliant so it could all work out well.
 
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