Please help!! Mare doesn't look pregnant anymore

Spring Feather said:
She doesn't look pregnant to me either sorry. If she is, or ever was, then by now you would definitely be seeing a lot of jumping and bouncing around going on in her belly. Foal movements can't be mistaken (unless the person watching is totally clueless) for anything else. If she was pregnant and has lost the fetus then it's highly unlikely you would ever have seen it or found your mare distressed. At that stage it would be like delivering a large poo and the mare wouldn't have any attachment to it like they do when they deliver full term foals. Scavengers will make quick work of any aborted fetus and it's very unusual for owners to be given any signs that the mare has aborted until the mare is closer to her due date and the owner realises the mare is not the size she should be.
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Ahh doesn't sound too promising really!
 
There is a mare on my yard who was definitely pregnant but something went wrong, apparently the foal died inside her and she reabsorped it! I don't know the full details as it wasnt my mare and the owner was very upset by it.
 
Mares shift the foal from side to side periodically so one side will look larger than the other. Especially if you don't know what covered her it may be a very small foal. Is there any sign of her producing milk?
 
I would definately get the mare scanned or blood tested. You will need to start thinking about preparation before too long if she is.
 
Could it have been a phantom pregnancy?

My loan mare had one when her owner first got her. She was huge, producing milk, everything. Vet was positive she was in foal, but nothing happened!

(I do apologise if I'm going completely off par, only skimmed through thread)
 
I probably wasnt very clear, I meant early in the pregnancy re:the mourning, spring feather managed to say much clearer than me :rolleyes: No doubt at full term (most) do mourn
 
vic h said:
Mares shift the foal from side to side periodically so one side will look larger than the other. Especially if you don't know what covered her it may be a very small foal. Is there any sign of her producing milk?
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Nope no sign of milk, although looking at her out in the field she looks bigger on the right if you look at her from behind :/

Have booked vet for monday! If she's not pregnant she's going on a diet!!
 
Alfie&Milo said:
Nope no sign of milk, although looking at her out in the field she looks bigger on the right if you look at her from behind :/

Have booked vet for monday! If she's not pregnant she's going on a diet!!
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Please come back and tell us what the vet says! :)
 
Alfie&Milo said:
I am considering having the vet out again but saw online that someone had their mare internally checked in the last couple of months causing the mare to then abort the foal.

I just don't see her getting huge like they normally do! I know she's not a regular broodmare and she's 7yrs old so maybe shes hiding it. :(
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One of mine last year didnt really show at all till very late on, it was her 2nd foal, and I didnt see any movement from the baby. All was fine, she had a lovely filly.
(Unlike one of the others who has had several foals, and quite early on was letting it all hang out and her foal was spinning and kicking like she was on a spin cycle :D)

Id definitely ask the vet to look at her if youre worried, and good luck, I hope you get the result you want :)
 
This was my welsh c in march 2009 - she foaled in the may and didn't look pregnant until the last couple of weeks. It was her first foal and was small as she went to a small stallion for her first mating.

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But she had this - an absolute cracker of a foal!

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these are photos of my 13.1 chunky NF mare about 24 hours before she foaled. She was actually dripping milk when these were taken. I think she just looks FAT in them, but there was definitely a foal in there!

I thought they might be useful for comparison purposes. The first 3 were all taken on Thursday evening:

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The result on Saturday morning (born Friday night):
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There are other ways to check your mare is in foal without using a vet, after i think it was 17 weeks.
There is a company that will send you a pack to analyse the mare droppings, you take a sample from the middle of a fresh pile of poo, and send it to them! we had it returned within 14 days!
But for the life of me i cant remember the name of the company!! Stupid Fii!!
 
Thank u very much for pics, your horses are beautiful! I would love for her to be pregnant as it would be lovely to have a baby leaping round the fields this summer but if not we just go back to original plans :) xx
 
I've just had a thought, why don't you do the nail test on her? Hang a nail from a piece of string/baler twine over her loins. If it doesn't move then she most likely is not pregnant. I've never had it fail me (and it's almost always been correct about the gender too for me).
 
Spring Feather said:
I've just had a thought, why don't you do the nail test on her? Hang a nail from a piece of string/baler twine over her loins. If it doesn't move then she most likely is not pregnant. I've never had it fail me (and it's almost always been correct about the gender too for me).
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How does it show gender?
 
Spring Feather said:
It swings round and round in a circle if it's a filly and back and forth if it's a colt. Only once in all my years of using it has it been wrong but the mare was on some drugs at the time so I've wondered whether that had something to do with skewing the results.
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Thanks, I will try it on the pregnant mare at my yard. Everyone here is so excited about the foal.
 
Ooh that sounds like an interesting idea will try that later ! Only thing that was making me uncertain if I could feel kicking was that shes quite a highly strung mare and was breathing out of rhythm and I wasnt sure if she was breathing quickly or fidgeting about or whether it was a kick!
 
I have one in foal ATM, last week she looked enourmous. This week she looked normal on one side, and giantic on the other. Then she looked small all over. Just due to the way the foal is lying.

October

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January

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February

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This is another of my mares in the October, she foaled in late April

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February

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Right, vet came this afternoon!

GUESS WHAT?!










She's not pregnant!!!
She said she can feel both ovaries and she feels like shes coming back into season but definitely not pregnant!!
So back to original plan :D:D
 
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