Mares in season.

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Has anyone else got a confused mare in season?!
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My poor madam has been quiet for a couple of days, which worried me a bit, until she started squitting everywhere last night.
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Is anyone elses mare still coming into season?!! Is it normal?!
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Mine too. As I understand it, they can still come into season all year round but just aren't as obvious. It could also be because the weather is so mild. I may well have got the wrong end of the stick, but hopefully someone can put us right!
 
Mines not at all tarty, she just goes very quiet and soppy when she is in season
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bless her! Although there is plenty of time for that to change I guess...
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My gelding was more of a tart!!
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My girl normally stops coming into season through the winter and usually by Oct at the latest, however on Sunday while we were out competing everytime i got her off the trailer she was winking and squirting in the direction of a very dishy palomino ( no idea whether it was a mare or gelding as she can swing either way!) I assume as we never really got a summer and it is so mild she is just confused bless her!
 
Yep, mine is in season too, can tell as soon as she starts pulling a face when i tighten her girth, plus for some reason she seems to have a dislike for having her rugs on when in season, does anyone elses mare do this??
 
Yes mahoganybay, mine has a particular aversion to rugs when she's in season. I wonder if they just get to hot? A bit like menopausal hot flushes - and I know all about those!!

I usually put a lighter rug on when she's like this.
 
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In theory mares have oestrous (when they are 'in season' or receptive to the stallion), dioestrous (the part of their cycle when they are not receptive), and anoestrous - the winter period where their oestrous cycle stops entirely.
The oestrous cycle is supposedly 21 days long, from one ovulation to the next, around 5 days of this the mare is clearly in season.
However, all mares are different.
I find that my mares often have a prolonged, and slightly confused last season around now, before they go into anoestrous for the winter, starting their cycles again in about March.
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Thanks Shilasdair. that sounds about right! L does seem a bit confused about life in general at the mo, and its the first time she has actually shown effects of being in season, eg being a bit sore and tetchy
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Hopefully it will be the last one for her before march!!
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Yep, mine is in season too, can tell as soon as she starts pulling a face when i tighten her girth, plus for some reason she seems to have a dislike for having her rugs on when in season, does anyone elses mare do this??

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Mine does!!! and saddles, she's always done it hehe mares eh? dont you just love them ???
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If she is stabled and rugged up yes she will come into season, how do you think they get Throughbred mares in foal, 11 months pregnant and the foals have to be born after the 1st Jan every year. If they are left out no rugs or feeding they will switch off if it's also cold and come back in season when the weather starts to warm up. But as you know it's been very mild the past few winters.
 
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Hmmm
In theory mares have oestrous (when they are 'in season' or receptive to the stallion), dioestrous (the part of their cycle when they are not receptive), and anoestrous - the winter period where their oestrous cycle stops entirely.
The oestrous cycle is supposedly 21 days long, from one ovulation to the next, around 5 days of this the mare is clearly in season.
However, all mares are different.
I find that my mares often have a prolonged, and slightly confused last season around now, before they go into anoestrous for the winter, starting their cycles again in about March.
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Could you let my Shire X TB mare know please? We've now had her two years and up until she and her late-cut gelding friend watched a foal being born in the next door field in Spring 2009 she had never had a noticeable season. Both she and the gelding absolutely adored the foal and she seems not to have been out of season since. She's been running the poor old boy ragged trying to get him interested and I cannot believe the mess she can make of herself (and him) squirting.
 
My mare is still coming into season - she is usually later stopping than other mares on the yard but I think she'd stopped buy this time last year. I do not mind one bit as she is the lovliest horse ever when she's in season (much nicer than when she's not!). She wants cuddles and cannot even be bothered to argue in her ridden work - which makes a welcomed change!
 
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Mine gets a bit twitchy about having her back brushed behind the saddle area, so imagine the rug thing would be similar?!

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This is where her ovaries are - We used to get spectacular bucking fits or stops at big fences during seasons the vet suggested a hot water bottle over said area would you believe !!!!!!
 
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