scanned not in foal but foaled????

I have just bought a Sec A yearling and her breeder told me her dam was put to the sire and when scanned she showed up empty so they left it at that. Then when they went to check on her in the field one day she had foaled my little yearling. She is fine and healthy but is rather tiny, whether or not this is down to the mare having just lived out I don't know, but otherwise she is a very healthy, cheeky little pony :)
 
yesterday after a bit of a bust up with the office at the vet's, they admitted that after 12 days the bloods still hadn't been tested! Then I got a call last night to tell me the results are negative.......

I asked a friend who is a vet and he reckons the sample, because of the age of it, would have been worthless and the result could therefore be flawed?
The practice have admitted they only send off the samples once a week! Is this normal?
it appears by the time my sample was tested the blood was 12 days old, could this have affected the outcome?

Sorry for all the questions just very upset and confused by the whole thing :(
 
Money back - I'd want - sharpish! And a big apology and a competent vet sent out to do a manual or scan and give a conclusive answer. My vet is a one man band and sends everything off as soon as he can get it into an envelope with the right bits of paper. Once a week is taking a big risk with too many things, I hope they haven't been handing out swab certificates based on freedom from infection after the samples sat in the office for a week.
 
I'm a bit shocked by the whole thing TBH, I knew there would be a bit of a delay with the bank holidays but 12 days????
I've also done some research on the good old net and it appears the oestrone sulphate test they did on the blood sample could come back as negative as the mare, if she were in foal, would be more than 300 days. So according to my reading the levels of the above hormone start to reduce at around 300 days/10 months?

So this coupled together with a 12 day old blood sample makes the results rather questionable :(
 
We have the same situation here vis a vis mare apparently in foal after being scanned NIF last August. Blood oestrone was run a couple of weeks ago, but came back negative. However, oestrone levels fall after 300 days gestation, so can be a false negative, and she would have been about 320 days based on dates she was covered (she ran with the stallion). She should be over 340 days now.

Mare is very large, has right shape for a foal, has not shown in season this year, seems to have flank movement which indicates foal, udder very variable, but def much fuller than you'd expect for a barren mare. She had white dots on her teats, which have now disappeared, and I can express some clear fluid, but not milk. Very placid, HQs have change shape, so we are working on basis that she is in foal. Decided not to do external scan as meant travelling her, which tends to stress her. Could have internal scan, but decided to save pennies for the time being. If no change by this time next week probably will scan her.

Frustrating not to know for sure, not least because I wouldn't be getting up in the night if it wasn't necessary!

Hope you get an answer soon.
 
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