PopStrop
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My poor little 2yr old miniature filly aborted a surprise foal on wednesday night. I bought her at the beginning of november, she was vetted thoroughly but no one was looking for a foal! The first I knew about it was a call from YO on thurs morning telling me they'd found it and put it in a bucket for me
Spoke to vet on the way up there who said as long as there was no discharge or torn placenta then she should be ok. Filly is fine in herself, she'd obviously been sweating and needed her back end cleaning up, but other than that you wouldn't know any different. She was totally disinterested in the foetus and is her normal chirpy self, eating fine and no sign of any discharge.
After talking to her breeder, it seems that my filly's sire managed to get through a fence to her at the end of september and breeder found him in her field in the morning, but because he was paying no attention and she wasn't in season they assumed nothing had happened
Lesson learnt I hope!
Anyway, I am very glad that she didn't go full term, but now I have some questions!
The foetus was about 8/9ins - didn't actually measure it - which is about right for a 115ish day mini foetus, but I don't think it was forming quite 'right'. The foetus was also very dark red/purple, and the placenta a very dark red/brown colour, but I've found a website with pics of other aborted mini foals from various stages of gestation, and they're all pink, or pink with purple patches, except for one which had died and was brown and liquidy
so I'm wondering if the colour is due to exposure to air for several hours, or the reason she slipped it? I have some pics, could I PM or email them to someone who knows about these things, or I can post them up for discussion if I'm not going to offend. General consensus around me seems to be that I'm a morbid individual for taking them but I'm fascinated
She has been itchy since I've had her, she has an incredibly thick and long coat, but there's nothing living in there and I think she's been hot, but in the last week she has rubbed a shoulder almost bald. Since yesterday morning though, she is increasingly less itchy
Could that all be related?
Lastly, is this likely to affect her future fertility? She's not intended solely for breeding, but I probably would like to breed from her at some point in the future. It has been pointed out to me that at least I know she's fertile
I don't know whether she slipped it because the foal wasn't right, or she's young (turned 2 in august), or whether the fact that I've had her on a diet and slimmed her down considerably (she was very tubby when I bought her, and has more to come off before the spring grass!) since she's been here has anything to do with it
but as I said I am very glad she didn't carry it full term!
Apologies for the gory and graphic question!
Spoke to vet on the way up there who said as long as there was no discharge or torn placenta then she should be ok. Filly is fine in herself, she'd obviously been sweating and needed her back end cleaning up, but other than that you wouldn't know any different. She was totally disinterested in the foetus and is her normal chirpy self, eating fine and no sign of any discharge.
After talking to her breeder, it seems that my filly's sire managed to get through a fence to her at the end of september and breeder found him in her field in the morning, but because he was paying no attention and she wasn't in season they assumed nothing had happened
Lesson learnt I hope!
Anyway, I am very glad that she didn't go full term, but now I have some questions!
The foetus was about 8/9ins - didn't actually measure it - which is about right for a 115ish day mini foetus, but I don't think it was forming quite 'right'. The foetus was also very dark red/purple, and the placenta a very dark red/brown colour, but I've found a website with pics of other aborted mini foals from various stages of gestation, and they're all pink, or pink with purple patches, except for one which had died and was brown and liquidy
She has been itchy since I've had her, she has an incredibly thick and long coat, but there's nothing living in there and I think she's been hot, but in the last week she has rubbed a shoulder almost bald. Since yesterday morning though, she is increasingly less itchy
Lastly, is this likely to affect her future fertility? She's not intended solely for breeding, but I probably would like to breed from her at some point in the future. It has been pointed out to me that at least I know she's fertile
I don't know whether she slipped it because the foal wasn't right, or she's young (turned 2 in august), or whether the fact that I've had her on a diet and slimmed her down considerably (she was very tubby when I bought her, and has more to come off before the spring grass!) since she's been here has anything to do with it
Apologies for the gory and graphic question!
