Speckleification
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Hi,
After retiring my mare from ridden work 4 years ago last year we looked into loaning her out to be a brood mare for surrogacy as she's a big warm blood with x
good confirmation, temperament and super easy to work with. We partnered with a vets practice who run a breeding programme and in late May last year she went to the vets to be scoped and to be added to their waiting list. She then stayed at the vets to be paired with a donor as they thought she'd work for one of the mares currently on site, unfortunately it didn't quite work out but by end of June last year she'd been found a loan home, contracts(standard bhs) were signed and off she went to her new home.
I received word on Friday that she was confirmed pregnant and a strong healthy heartbeat was detected which is fantastic news.
I then got an extremely angry phone call from the loaner today stating I had lied and commited fraud as i had not told her my horse weaves. This is the first I have heard of it, I have owned her since 2013 and she has never weaved or been stabled near a horse that weaves in all the time I've owned her.
The person who has her on loan has stated she will be seeking her costs back from me including stabling and feed since July 2018 as well as the costs of having her mares eggs harvested and the cost of the grade A stallion she has been put to plus all veterinary fees from July 2018 up until the foal is born. She is also demanding that my horse stays with her in isolation so as 'not to infect' the other horses on her yard and that I have to pay her £250 a week in stabling until the foal is born at which point she will have them separated at birth and another mare found to look after the foal.
I can get proof from yard owners and livery managers as well as the vets she stayed at to prove that she did not weave whilst in my care or theirs but does anyone else think she has a leg to stand on regarding this?
I'm myself very upset to hear that she has picked up this behaviour since being away from my care and I can understand that the foals prospects are now not what they hoped for but find it baffling that this was her reaction. If anyone has any thoughts/experience with this kind of thing I'd be grateful for any help.
I'm hoping it was heat of the moment and she won't follow through with her threats but it's hard to know for sure.
After retiring my mare from ridden work 4 years ago last year we looked into loaning her out to be a brood mare for surrogacy as she's a big warm blood with x
good confirmation, temperament and super easy to work with. We partnered with a vets practice who run a breeding programme and in late May last year she went to the vets to be scoped and to be added to their waiting list. She then stayed at the vets to be paired with a donor as they thought she'd work for one of the mares currently on site, unfortunately it didn't quite work out but by end of June last year she'd been found a loan home, contracts(standard bhs) were signed and off she went to her new home.
I received word on Friday that she was confirmed pregnant and a strong healthy heartbeat was detected which is fantastic news.
I then got an extremely angry phone call from the loaner today stating I had lied and commited fraud as i had not told her my horse weaves. This is the first I have heard of it, I have owned her since 2013 and she has never weaved or been stabled near a horse that weaves in all the time I've owned her.
The person who has her on loan has stated she will be seeking her costs back from me including stabling and feed since July 2018 as well as the costs of having her mares eggs harvested and the cost of the grade A stallion she has been put to plus all veterinary fees from July 2018 up until the foal is born. She is also demanding that my horse stays with her in isolation so as 'not to infect' the other horses on her yard and that I have to pay her £250 a week in stabling until the foal is born at which point she will have them separated at birth and another mare found to look after the foal.
I can get proof from yard owners and livery managers as well as the vets she stayed at to prove that she did not weave whilst in my care or theirs but does anyone else think she has a leg to stand on regarding this?
I'm myself very upset to hear that she has picked up this behaviour since being away from my care and I can understand that the foals prospects are now not what they hoped for but find it baffling that this was her reaction. If anyone has any thoughts/experience with this kind of thing I'd be grateful for any help.
I'm hoping it was heat of the moment and she won't follow through with her threats but it's hard to know for sure.