Ragwort poisoning and viable pregnancy?

[Box_Of_Frogs]

Just wondered if anyone had ever had any experience/heard of a mare with ragwort poisoning being able to carry a foal to term and feed it to weaning? Shocking story - don't ask. But think the mare - who is already blood tested as "significant liver damage" - might be in foal. We're having her scanned but that will only be part of the story. Any info gratefully received. Many thanks.

 

[henryhorn]

Sorry can't help re the ragwortbut we did have a mare with cancer who managed to hold on until three weeks before the foal was due, the vet brought on the birth and delivered the foal, she managed to feed her for three weeks before dying. Rearing the foal was long, hard and expensive, so think twice. The milk powder is £30 odd pounds a tub and you go through a lot of tubs!
We gave our mare Propell Plus which seemed to help her through the pregnancy, the vet reckoned it was thickening of the stomach wall that caused her problems.
The youngster we lost years ago showed no real symptoms of liver damage until gelded, then he bled to death slowly over a day. Ragwort is an insidious nasty poison which I would gladly eradicate from the country if it were possible.

 

[foxviewstud]

i have heard of a mare with poisoning having a foal but both died in the end.