Mares and seasons...

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Right - need to ask a few questions and they aren't necessarily veterinary ones so thought here might be best...

If you have a mare - has yours still had seasons through the winter?

If not and the mare is now out full time - has she come into season yet?

And for a mare that doesn't "show" much at all, not a squirty/squealy type - are there any good ways of noticing or spotting it?

I can sometimes smell if Asti is in season, there is a particular aroma that hangs around - but other than that - next to nothing, and i need to start monitoring it to work out dates to send her to stud.

We don't have any geldings either to let her sniffle at!

Can you take temperatures like women to see if there is a change around ovulation?
 
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And for a mare that doesn't "show" much at all, not a squirty/squealy type - are there any good ways of noticing or spotting it?

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Amy never shows her seasons. We put her on a 10 day course of regumate - then when she came off it she came in to season. I can't remember how many days after though. It got to the point where I can tell almost to the hour when she was going to be right to cover.

For us that was the only way to do it. Have you spoken to your vet at all??
 
YES... the bugger has been in season this weekend, and was an absolute nappy nightmare in her lesson yesterday! Didn't help that a stallion was being lunged right next to her...

I haven't noticed her being in season over the winter.

She doesn't usually show too much, but there's normally more discharge under her tail, and she's a bit grumpy.

I've got no idea about temp, but would have thought so - you'll have to experiment on her this month...
 
my mares always in season or shes just a tart havent quiet decided
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its impossible to do anything when her guys are around which make my yard a little unsuitable as the 3 mares to 12 geldings
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but in am aware of mares that you could never tell when they were in season probably because she was a moody cow all year round
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My mare is currently in season after we introduced a new mare to the field - she's just as much of a tart with a mare as she is a gelding! She's showing well this time but is usually not quite so easy to spot. She is also going off to stud in Early June so I am logging her seasons now. A breeder friend of mine gave me a tip, if you look at the flesh on the inside of their lady bits, if not in season it should be a pale pink colour, when nearing season it gradually gets redder and brighter pink colour. She thought this was an acurate way to tell.
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Guess what I'll be looking at later then
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I did speak to the vet, and am trying to spot her seasons myself first, if not she'll go to the vet and be jabbed or we'll try regumate.

I'm hoping being out now 24/7 and with the sun on her back during the day, that she will start soon. Other mare is in season now but she's a tart so you can usually tell!
 
Also, again this is what my friend told me (who is very experienced and used to run a stud in newmarket, currently has 4 broodmares now she is retired) is not to have them injected into season, use Regumate instead if you have to - she said in all her years she has NEVER had a mare take first time after being injected into season. Of course it must work sometimes, but if like me you are on a budget I'd rather wait and get a 'true season' as she calls it.

LOL at the lady bits inspection, I haven't had to do that yet, fingers crossed she keeps being tarty!
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It has been quite common in our yard for all the mares to be in season around the same time. I am not sure if this is just coincendence (SP?) though.

Ellie is VERY tarty so i have no problem spotting it but she also usually has sticky legs
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She has had seasons right through the winter albeit not so strongly.

It might be worth keeping a record of the other mares seasons though
 
I have the same issue wih Sienna at the moment,
I've 3 choices.
1. Get the vet out with a scanner to give an estimate as where she is in her cycle and book her in at stud accordingly. This'll cost £50 ish, though could be combined with vet coming out to do CEM swabs etc.
2. Send her to stud anyway, at worst she's there 3 weeks or so, cost is probably comparable, if she's out at grass.
3. (The most fun!!!)Take her up the road to little teaser stallion and get a better idea about when she's ready.

Anyone with alternative - and cheaper options - please inform.
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Well I'll keep an eye out. Other mare has just been in season - but she's the tarty one! Had a look at bits last night (such a wild life!!) And they are pale pink...

No teaser stallion anywhere near so I think I'll see what happens and if all else fails, she can go up to the stud once I've done my pleasure ride and dressage to music, and stay as long as she needs...

I'm just impatient and want to be able to plan everything!!!
 
Ebi never shows in season what so ever. We dropped on lucky that when we took her to the vets for scanning she was ready but not due to come into season so she had the jab. I watched her carefully over the weekend and by Monday morning when we took her to the vets she was in season and ready to pop so I flew down to the stud to collect the goods.
Dont know what I woukdve done if she hadnt been ready
 
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