After birth still attached to foal

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The farm next door to us has a little sec a mare & she foaled last night, but the foal was dead & had all the afterbirth attached to her naval, could anybody tell me why this might be? i have seen a few foals born but never heard of this.
 
Sorry to hear that, same thing happened with one of our mares a few back, basically death is a result of the placenta's premature separation from the uterus cutting of the foal's oxygen supply before delivery.
 
I was reading about something similar this morning, implied if you could get the foal out you had a 50/50 chance of survival, like springfall said its due to the oxygen supply being cut off so time is the essence, if it hasnt already died before delivery.

Sorry to hear that they lost the foal, hope the mum is ok x
 
This year is the first time I have seen this but mare delivered no problem but instead of the umbilical cord snapping after a short time the whole placenta etc came out of the mare but still attached to the foal. Just as we were about to cut it it snapped off ok and mare and foal are doing fine but it was a weird one for me. Now after seeing this post I'm glad we were there and all ok.
 
Thanx guys that was a great help, i can now give the mares owner abit of feedback. She wasn't due to foal for another 2 weeks and her milk hadn't come yet. It was her first foal aswell. Thanx for the help
 
have seen this twice, both times the placenta came out shortly after the foal was born, and it is a hard job breaking the cord, the first time it happened a quick call to the vet told us to break not cut the cord. Both foals were healthy, and grew up to be healthy fit animals
 
Mare that foaled Friday had the same thing. Placenta pretty much expelled with the foal and she did similar last year. Foal was fine but both this years and last years definatly took a few days to really find their feet compared to normal and I am positive it is due to the placenta seperation during the birth. We got the foal out as quick as we could but this mare obviously is prone to this and I'd hate for her to ever foal unobserved.
Anyone know why some mares are prone to this and any steps that could be taken to prevent it in the future?
 
Are we talking red bag deliveries, (I.e. the whole lot is delivered with foal completely enclosed, with the red side of the placenta outermost?)

If so there has been some research suggesting a link to placentitis as a result of infection, (i.e. the placenta is too thick to rupture at the cervical star area) in some instances twinning or inappropriate induction methods are to blame but the reasons are not all known. Apparently in many cases, the mare doesn't strain.

With this the premature separation and failure to rupture interferes with delivery and the oxygen supply to the foal being stopped. The foal becomes progressively hypoxic, weak, and if no help is on hand it dies. The advice is to rupture the membrane ASAP and deliver the foal which will probably need oxygen therapy.

More ominously it is also associated with EHV 1 along with the other symptoms.

In this case if the mare was early (before 320 days), the separation could have been as a result of the death?
 
Our mare also wasnt a red bag delivery and also foaled the same way the foaling year, luckily 2nd one survived, first one didnt stand a chance although we were present and tryed to revive it. Her last year foaling all went text book and she cleansed as normal, i have no idea why this happens?
 
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