Oh dear! Has she lost her foal?

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My mare SHOULD be 90 days in foal, and has been showing all the behaviours that were typical of her last pregnancy (very affectionate, very chilled out ...) - but today she has apparently been really flirting and squirting at one of the geldings over the fence, and behaving like a typical tarty mare in season. Oh dear! Its really weird, as she and her foal have been turned out with a gelding for the last few weekends, without her showing the slightest interest. I guess the risk is that she's lost the foal. We didn't have her scanned at the usual times as she was such a complete witch with the first scans, and kicked the vet, even though she'd had a shedload of dope!

I've just rung the vet, who suggests that she's blood tested at 120 days - apparently if you blood test before that there's a risk of false positives.... Has anyone else experienced a mare showing in season when supposedly in foal? Do you think that the chances are she will have lost the foal?
 
Our mare used to do that all the time!! (She was a tart tho and would back up to anything even when she was in foal!)

As mine are minis we always get them blood tested at 120 days. We used to place bets on if she was or wasn't pregnant - our vet lost a fair bit of money after he placed a bet with us saying she wouldn't be pregnant after he saw her back up to the stallion - she was in foal!!
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Was the gelding she squirted at the same one she has been turned out with?

I brought my mare when she was 5 months gone and when she met the shetland stallions in the field next to her, she turned into a complete tart (yes she was still defo in foal)! So it could be something to do with a new chap around.

Also my friend's shettie mare came into season as normal for about the first three months of her pregnancy.

So it is possible for some mares to act normally while in foal and I have my fingers crossed that this is the case for you and your mare.

Who is she in foal to BTW?
 
Thank you all so much - you have kept my hopes alive! And yes, she has been in a field next to a little herd with in-foal mares and one gelding, and as Fionn, our naughty 5 month old foal, was obviously bored with his mum and kept breaking through the post and rail fencing to be with the other horses, we thought it was the lesser of the two evils to turn them out in the same field .... and that's when Beth started her tart act BIG TIME! Got the poor gelding so excited that he was trying to mount her, She's a mare who is NEVER straightforward, so may well be that she's just winding us up yet again. I have to say that as far as temperament, she's not showing any of her usual nightmare "in-season" behaviours, but is still very placid and laid back with her human handlers.... Hmmm....
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I'll let you know when she's had her 120 day test!
 
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