Do you think you can lose your nerve breeding?

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Probably horribly pathetic of me but I keep getting what can only be called "wobbles" about Asti and this prospective foal and its not like me. Don't know if its the vets very cautious attitude rubbing off on me or the worry of anything happening to Asti as she's so precious to me.

When I bred her, it just seemed so simple and easy. I was working at the stud, mare came in to season, went to the stud and was swabbed and washed out and covered and scanned on 30 days and 11 months later - there was Asti.

Even the evil one was easy, well Byter ran with the stallion, was covered and scanned after 30 days and again no problems. I was so cool and calm helping my sister, I knew the night she'd foal, left my sister asleep in the car and then gave her about 20 mins notice and I delivered the foal for her. Never panicked for a moment.

This time round though we've had scans and scans and injections and then the covering dates going wrong though it worked... I get a bit worried at every little thing with her - been and got some stud balancer but she's just getting that and a handful of chaff just to keep her vits and mins right - as she's always been on the chubby side. But had her in the round pen tonight for a bit of a stretch and trot round and I can actually see a sign of ribs... so might have to up her feed. Its just what has always seemed to come naturally with feeding and things, I'm having to check I'm doing right. Most peculiar...

Hopefully everything will look 100% for this extra scan and the vet will be more positive and then I'll feel "safer"...

Am I just odd and being silly and self indulgent? Its just for me, Asti is my baby. I delivered her 15 years ago and she has always been mine and she's so special to me, I just want this to go well and I know there are no guarantees...

I so need to pull myself together!!!!

Kick up the ar$e anyone????
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What you feel is only natural huni - esp. as Asti is your girlie!!!

Do you remember the flap I was in last year when B was due? You MUST remember - EVERYONE on here got to hear EVERYTHING about it, from well before hand too!!! Then think of the number of foalings I have attended and been solely responsible for!! I reckon now, with this last season under my belt, I must have been actively involved with 450+ foalings, but with it being my own mare
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AND THEN, I got really ill with Broncitis (sp?) and had 3 weeks off work
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And now she's infoal again - Hmmmm I'm beginning to regret that now - Thanks GM!!!!
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Don't worry, I was EXACTLY the same with Bramble and Teazle. I had awful problems when they were at stud too (Bramble got in-foal, then reabsorbed, then didn't take and then got in-foal, Teazle got in-foal first time for it to be twins and Lottie didn't get in-foal). A month before the foals were due I was like OMG what have I done?! What if I lose my girls?!
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I really would never sell B and T, even for £10 million!

But when Rainbow and Phoenix came I just knew that I had done the right thing, it really was worth it! I love them soooooo much
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It will be fine and you'll have a fab foal and happy mummy
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Ah well, mutual kicks up the backsides then? I'll boot yours if you'll boot mine!!!!

We'll be fine. I'm just suspicious of things going well at the moment with the engagement and then the scan being positive for a foaly... I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop!

We'll be fine eh? And the girlies!
 
I am just the same, I panic and stress and worry, be it for the foaling, the scans, picking the right stallion, whatever it is, I worry over it.
We did loose a mare once and also a foal this year and I have never forgotten the pain and heartache. But when it goes right and that healthy bouncing foal is everything you dreamed it would be - then its all worth while
 
Yes I think you can. Your mind starts going into overdrive and you start thinking horrendous thoughts. I know with my Golden mare, the relief I felt once that baby came out, was unbelievable. I'd been quite worried about Golden from about 5 months into her pregnancy and this continued right up till the moment she foaled perfectly. Scary stuff sometimes!
 
I had a nightmare first experience of breeding. My mare was a maiden who I have had for 9 years and have had such a great time competing her, she took on the first covering although I did have to leave her at stud for a week so the stallion could win her over. She had a perfect pregnancy but then went into labor and everything went wrong, foal was premature and dogsitting so got stuck, wouldn't come out or go back in and she was a maiden so he didn't survive. The poor mare had a terrible time and we were so lucky we were there or I would have lost her too.

It was such a hard decision about whether to put her in foal again, I didn't want her to go through the ordeal she'd been through again but if I didn't try then, then I never would. So after long converstaions with the vet and experienced friends I sent her back to the stallion (same one) and decided if she took on her first covering in her first season after losing the foal then it was meant to be. Which she did and I was then totally paranoid for the next 9 months, the vet was called out for the slightest thing!! I would never have forgiven myself if something had happened to her and every day I had doubts about whether I did the right thing. However she gave birth in may to the perfect little colt and it was a really easy birth. She did have to be sedated to let him have his first feed though but she's been a great mother.
The plan was to leave the breeding, for another few years at least, and bring her back into competition work but in july she fractured bones in her hock (a freak acccident with a gate) and so will have to be retired as a broodmare.

I very nearly lost my nerve to breed after losing the first foal but am so glad I didn't as I now have a gorgeous little colt.
 
I'm feeling a lot better about it, I think I'm just too attached to this mare! When Ibred her, the deal was I got the foal (Asti) and my sister then "inherited" the pony, so I was already more detatched from her, plus I'd been away at Uni and my sister had taken over the pony pretty much anyway.

More than anything I've caught the mood off the vet, not getting my hopes up until the next scan at 60 days. Normally I'd not do another, but at least it will put my mind at rest and hopefully ease the paranoia!

All it came down to, which AndyPandy made me feel better about on the first one, vet thought the "black hole" in the scan was on the large side for day 19... then the next one at 26 days, you can see the start of the embryo but he was concerned there were some grainy discolourations inside the black area. There was a huge change between the two though so things are definitely progressing.

We'll be fine, will keep everything crossed and not walk under ladders and will chat like a nutter to single magpies!
 
Of course you can.........without scarying you completely........
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Last year we had the following:
January - lost our top stallion at 8 years old after colic surgery while at competition yard
April - Jul - lost three foals due to one thing or another
Nov - lost one of our best mares (in foal) to severe colic
Jan - lost another one of our mares (in foal) - found dead outside one morning
Feb - first foal had to be operated on at 2 wks age to have her eye removed after being kicked in the head, followed by fracture to the skull.......

So you could imagine what we were like with each and every mare due to foal this year! PARANOID, FRIGHTENED, SCARED, WORRIED............was not the word!!
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Now I dont advertise any of the foals due on our website in case we tempt fate. And to say I have turned into a pessimistic person over the heads of it is an understatement......I now always fear the worst!!
 
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