Ecoli in the Uterus!

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curlygirla2001

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Has anyone ever heard of this or better still, has anyone's mare ever had this!?!
Im not going to go into detail BUT Ive just paid out over £1800 to a stud using AI on a maiden mare in vets fee's and grazing fee's due to an infection on her first cycle and then ECOLI poisoning on her 2nd cycle ...after being scanned in foal ...and on her heart beat scan finding nothing but fluid which was swabbed and sent to Newmarket which came back positive for ecoli....
The mare is back home obviously not in foal, but im feeling rather pee'd off with being told the reason for the poisoning is 'a mares back end are a dirty place!' and ' it happens quite alot'
How did it get there in the 1st place, surely a maiden mare who i bred myself and know everything about her cannot have gotten this by herself?? I dont know?? can anyone help me out here? I feel a bit like someone has taken the you know what out of me...
HELP
 
Contamination by ecoli is usually from faeces being sucked in through the Vulva.
Quite often when a swab is taken ecoli will show but quite often it will just the swab having got contaminated and the test should really be re done just in case.
If the mare does suck in air and faeces then a quick caslick of the mares vulva should help in future.
The good news is that it is very simple to sort out and not expencive to deal with at all
 
Sally is right - e-coli is EXTREMELY common, and the presence of e-coli could be contamination of the swab. She needs to have cytology AND culture to work out the source of the bacteria, and to see exactly what is going on in the uterus. I assume Newmarket will have done both, but it's not always the case.

If she does have poor vulval conformation, and/or sucks air (pneumovagina), then she will require stitching... Although I think the stud probably should have worked this out earlier...
 
Thanks for your replies, my mare doesnt have poor vulva conformation whatsoever, she was tested on 2 seperate occassions, the 1st didnt show ecoli but the 2nd swab on a seperate cycle did....do you think i should contact the stud and ask if newmarket have done a thorough cytology AND culture? She was on a strong course on antibiotics and when she had finished her course (for the second time), she was scanned and the folicle was a big folicle, she didnt have fluid or anything... but i said to leave her until next year
I was beggining to think whether instrument werent being properly cleansed...
Can anyone recommend a good AI centre/vet in the north west ?
Carla
 
Double check what was done. It is very important to work out what was done, and what is in there! If it is e-coli, it can be easily treated. If it's not, then you need to find out what was preventing her from getting pregnant.

I know it's not NW, but perhaps you might do well to send her to Jonathan Pycock (Ryton, N Yorkshire)? No ideas otherwise.
 
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