Bloody colt - I couldn't BELIEVE it!

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JanetGeorge

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On Monday we scanned and Choruloned an older sport horse maiden mare by Skippy! Tuesday she was AI'd. Because she's a known fluid retainer I kept her in last night so I could give her an extra couple of jabs of Oxytocin!

This morning, first staff member on the yard found one of my 2 year old colts IN the stable with her, trying to mount her!! He'd escaped from a securely electric fenced field, found his way up to the yard and jumped in over a 4ft door giving himself a couple of good scrapes in the process!! :eek: (His mate, another 2 year old colt, was still in the field!)

Not much I can do now! IF she's in foal, I won't know who Dad is until foal's DNA goes in. If the colt has done the deed, it won't be the end of the world as she's not purebred - although if foal is a filly it WOULD be eligible for AID (grading up) if it was by the stallion it's MEANT to be by!

Anyone want a nice, newly gelded ID??:rolleyes:
 
Woops! That doesnt sound like its going to be the most fun thing to sort out! Dont suppose your boy fancies popping over to pursuade my mare to play ball does he?!
On a serious note though, what will you do? Is it a case of wait and see? x
 
Simsar said:
Buck or George?
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Oh, Buck of COURSE! :D George wouldn't work THAT hard - he just doesn't have the imagination!

On a serious note though, what will you do? Is it a case of wait and see?
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Oh, it's wait and see - and if she's pregnant, a LONG wait! Because she's sport horse, and a potentially difficult breeder, I wouldn't terminate if she does turn out to be in foal (to one of the candidates!) I'll just DNA the foal when it's registered. It's only a bu**er if she has a filly - because under the old rules - the foal would HAVE to be by/out of RID sire/dam to be eligible for AID. BUT the rules are inthe process of being changed and we MIGHT sneak a filly in under the 3 RID grandparents rule. But the worst that can happen is the foal is only eligible to be registered as an IDSH. If it's a colt, of course, it doesn't matter at all!

My plan for the mare was to get her in foal this year - if we can!! (She's 17 and IF she's foaled before, it was a LONG time ago!!) Then NEXT year put her to a serious eventing stallion. A foal by Buck will still be VERY nice indeed (he's eligible RID and is being run on with that in mind - and he IS very athletic and a stunning mover!)

The annoyingthis is that if I hadn't kept her in so I could jab her several times through the evening, she would have been on a part of the farm where he is VERY unlikely to have found her! :rolleyes:
 
LOL, you do have to to give him points for trying though!

At least it's (or sounds like it is?) one of your own mares so you won't have to have an awkward converstaion with an nagry mare owner!
 
Clepottage said:
At least it's (or sounds like it is?) one of your own mares so you won't have to have an awkward converstaion with an nagry mare owner!
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Oh thank goodness yes! That IS a conversation I wouldn't want with a mare owner! Which is why the mares aren't in the same area of the farm as the colts! They'd have to get through both solid and electric fences (several of them) to reach a mare normally! But you think they'll be safe in stables - particularly as mine aren't the standard 3'6" doors, but over 4'!
 
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