Mare constantly in season?

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I'm posting this for a friend, she has a nice 14.2hh 12 year old skewbald mare whom she has owned for many years now. Recently, she moved the mare to a new, nearby yard with a new gelding (she was with geldings previously though). Since then, she has been in season constantly for several weeks, very messy and squirty and stuck to the gelding! She is OK when ridden though. She has never been mareish before. My friend has tried herbal remedies to no avail. The vet wasn't very helpful or interested, just said she was being a tarty mare. She offered a treatment (Regumate?) but this was very expensive; £50 for 10 days. My friend wonders why the mare has suddenly started doing this and if anyone has any other suggestions? Thanks.
 
My friends mare did this. She was scanned... Nothing wrong. So was put on Regumate. She was on it all summer, and the next year was totally normal. Is the mare not insured?

Your friend has definitly had this mare for years? Sounds exactly the same as the mare I described about that was sold a year or so ago....
 
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am pretty sure this is the same mare she has had for ages! I don't know whether she is insured or not I am afraid. Let's hope this is a temporary infliction too then.. none of my mares has ever been mareish so I feel unable to advise from experience.
 
Hi My mare was like this and she was put on regumate and sorted in no time. You can get another type of regumate - one for pigs which is a lot cheaper and still does the same job - its more like fifty pounds for 70 days - might be worth your friend speaking to her vet about this option.
 
if she hasn't shown this behaviour before then I wonder if she has developed polycystic ovaries - one of the symptoms are absent or continuous oestrus (sp!). If it doesn't affect the mares well being or ability to be ridden then does it matter? If the mare is distressed by it then I would get the vet out again and try and get a more helpful response out of them!
 
Hi agree with above. I had a loan mare who seemed in season every day but I managed her fine. However this year (back with her owner) she is a lot worse, had the vet out and she has polycystic ovaries. I am not sure how they are proceeding now as I am at uni but maybe the vet can check your friends mare for this? Although not sure as you said she is fine when she is ridden, my mare was a bit of a cow :)
 
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