Potential accidental covering, advice please?

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As the title suggests, but hear me out...

Bought a lovely strapping 8mo colt 3weeks ago. As perfect for me as he is, I’d no intention on breeding and have a mare (own small yard/field setup) so within 3days of him being home and settled in the stable, he was gelded.

After the initial drip-drip bleeding was over (24hrs later) he was turned out as per vets advice.
I also turned my mare out alongside - as although she had shown an interest in him, he was oblivious to her advances and mouthing/clacking at him.
Separated I must add (!) by a solid wooden post and rope-style electric fencing, hooked to a leisure battery.

Safe I thought, until day four of this setup and my neighbour in an adjoining field calling me (I need you to know there have been access problems and disagreements between the two of us and she is notoriously a trouble-causer in the area) to say that my newly gelded lad was in the field with my mare and had her covered.

I’m a key worker so couldn’t get over in any useful amount of time and so other half had seen to them that morning. He says he could have forgotten to turn fencing on after poopicking but sure he hadn’t, and got over to them within the hour.

Upon his arrival, newly gelded lad was on his side and mare was on hers, metres apart. No evidence of any of them having been in one another’s company but the ‘gate’ made by 3x insulated handles had got 2x rungs seemingly knocked off, so I guess one or the other COULD have scooted under and then back again.

Now, I’ve pushed it to the back of my mind as I’m almost certain it’s ms-meddlesomeneighbour next door creating, as she does. And potentially also her who has knocked off the bottom handle for effect (I realise this makes me sound mad, but there truly are bats in the belfry on her part).

However, I am now concerning myself with the worry my mare could have been covered. My other half thinks there’s absolutely no way.
But, as we all know, stranger things have happened and I really DO NOT want my mare in foal, or indeed, a foaling and little to contend with...

Does anyone have any advice? I know very little about breeding/covering and the ins and outs (pardon the pun) of it all.
I’ve heard a vet can give an injection to the mare if it is suspected, but know nothing of that either...?
 
I very very doubt he would have joined the mare, covered her and then gone back. I know it’s easy to say but I would ignore your neighbour, it just didn’t happen.
 
If the lad was in and supposedly covering the mare he would have still been in with her harassing her not back on his own side. Check your mare over - are there any bite/slobber marks on her wither, the top of her tail, above her flanks - where all stallions like to get a feel of their mares mostly.

Check him - if he had been in with her, unless she is a complete and utter trollop he will have kick marks - even just hair scuffed. Check his gelding site. If he had been up on his back legs doing things he should not have it will have probably split open again a little bit and have bled a little.

I personally would not worry. But if you are get a vet out in a couple of days to check the mare over.
 
from the OP I think this happened a couple of weeks ago now? so probably a bit late to look for any kicks or scratches.
 
it was the fact that it had been playing on the OPs mind that made me read it again ;)
hopefully it's all just a figment of the neighbour's imagination.
 
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Elf On A Shelf said:
My bad for not reading the post properly and assumed it happened today!
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My bad! I had my other half check them both over at the time and he says no marks on either. I’ve seen playful colts in the field attempt to mount their mommas and not even scuff marks on her from that kind of thing, he said. Certainly none by the time I was back up.
Though she IS a Trollop!


She hasn’t been interested in him since (Flashing/Winking etc) and seems to have stopped being so interested, though if I’m right with her cycles, the next 21days should show her in season again?


I ought to have been more clear in my posting mind you...
This is something I keep thinking over and over (perhaps me willing it to NOT have happened) and has led me to post here today.
 
You would be so unlucky on so many levels, and as EOAS said, I really can't see him quietly going back to his sde and grazing.
 
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If it’s playing on your mind wait and see if she comes into season. If she doesn’t get the vet out and if she’s in foal then you can get it pinched and then all you will have is a vets bill and an emptier purse.

Hope she comes back into season and you can stop worrying. Enough to be getting on with worry without this
 
Nicnac said:
Nah - he would have been still in her field lying flat out with his hooves in the air smoking a cigar if he'd had his wicked way. No way would he have been back on his side and there would have been physical signs on both of them.

Your neighbour sounds nutnut.
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Haha :) needed that laugh!!!
And she definitely is... sadly, she knows I’m a worrier & is the type to leech onto it!
 
Cheeky Chestnut said:
If it’s playing on your mind wait and see if she comes into season. If she doesn’t get the vet out and if she’s in foal then you can get it pinched and then all you will have is a vets bill and an emptier purse.

Hope she comes back into season and you can stop worrying. Enough to be getting on with worry without this
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Thankyou. That’s a good idea!!
That would actually fall inline to when my boy is due his second vaccs. So can speak to them then if no season.

Totally, enough that’s troubling for all of us at the mo!!
 
My mare was covered by a newly gelded colt a year ago. The vet said the chance of a foal was tiny but they came out at 21days and scanned her. If there had been a foal it would have been pinched, but there was nothing. It was more than worth it to me to have her scanned though.
 
A colt from a local stud managed to get free on the forest and covered one of my younger ponies. I got her in and jabbed. Vet was coming out for one of my other ponies anyway. Drug cost approx £20 so well worth it for peace of mind.
 
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