scanned not in foal but foaled????

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mare covered then scanned on 14 days empty, not covered again and turned out.
owner suspects the mare might now be in foal!!!

has anyone one else had this experience????
 
Yes, it happened to my mare. I had her covered late in the season, it was a case of we'll have one go, if she takes, all well & good, if she doesn't we'll try again earlier next year. We had her scanned & she wasn't showing in foal.
Several months later, we suspected that she may have held & had her checked by the vet, who confirmed our suspicions.
 
no, the mare was not scanned a second time, nor watched to see if she came back into season, as far as I know.
Believe she was chucked out in a field :(
 
sadly up until January she had been left in a field and "starved" would have sprung to mind if you'd seen her :(
she has been on decent grazing since then, but is fat nowhere but her tummy area....
 
If she were to be in foal, when would she be due? I agree, you don't need to worry too much about the feed. I keep my warmblood broodmare on very little hard feed. I don't up it in the last 3 months if she looks good on grass, but I do feed a good vit and min supplement. This years foal was stunning, so I am doing something right!
 
birchave0 said:
vet been out today and bloods taken, just looking for other peoples experiences of scanning "empty" only to end up with a foal
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Yes, it happens quite often, I have heard plenty of stories. The most common one is when the mare owner begins the scanning cycle again, only to find an embryo that had been missed at 14 days.
 
If she is in foal, don't fret about her having restricted grass earlier, I'm sure she won't have come to any harm unless her condition went to seriously underweight.
Hope you get the outcome you want
 
Last season if we had gone purely on a 14 day scan two of our mares would not be in-foal this year. Thankfully we do scan more than once and on their 18 day scan, both showed 14 day pregnancies. One of those mares is on foal watch at the moment, so fingers crossed for our first foal of the years any day now :D
 
My cousins mare scanned not in foal. She rode her all winter. Phoned me one day to say she had her tacked but the mare was sweaty and had white fluid on her back legs. I advised tack off and back into stable as it sounded like she was foaling Healthy filly arrived about an hour later!
 
my mare was covered in june 2011 first time in hand and she was a maiden,
caught first time scanned at 14 and 42 days only 1 foal and a heartbeat, 3 days later discharge, scanned not in foal,.... fast forward to march 2012 vet was out to castrate my colt and looked at mare and announced she was in foal, bloods took 5 days by which time i could see foal moving. she had little in the way of looking after feed wise . she foaled an amazing colt (~pics on my thread ) on 17th may 2012 and all is well . so it can happen xx
 
My warmblood mare is a barrel on legs at the moment, she's not in foal. A jolly good fart will get her back to normal girth.
 
Monkers said:
If she were to be in foal, when would she be due? I agree, you don't need to worry too much about the feed. I keep my warmblood broodmare on very little hard feed. I don't up it in the last 3 months if she looks good on grass, but I do feed a good vit and min supplement. This years foal was stunning, so I am doing something right!
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if the dates we have are correct she would be due now!
no bag or udder, she does have lots of lovely big milk veins though, not sure if they are any indication?
also lots of tummy activity, usually at dinner time!
in fact when turned out this morning the mare had a bucking/rearing fit which resulted in a lot of tummy movement!!!! Maybe she woke it up??!!! lol
 
TJP said:
My cousins mare scanned not in foal. She rode her all winter. Phoned me one day to say she had her tacked but the mare was sweaty and had white fluid on her back legs. I advised tack off and back into stable as it sounded like she was foaling Healthy filly arrived about an hour later!
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Love this!! Clever mare!!
 
birchave0 said:
anyone????
mare covered then scanned on 14 days empty, not covered again and turned out.
owner suspects the mare might now be in foal!!!

has anyone one else had this experience????
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YES! This happened to us last year!!! Mare covered in 2010.. scanned not in foal - we were all GUTTED especially stud owner as stallion had never NOT got a mare in foal..

Took her back to stud in 2011..we all thought the day she went, she was looking quite podgy and we worried stud owner would be un impressed with her weight (we had been restricting grazing/not feeding for 1 month previously)..

Mare arrived, Stud owner looked at her and said "bet you she's in foal", vet came out and clarified mare was 9 month's gone.. mare had to stay at stud to foal.. had her foal and kicked him over the stable 5 bar gate at 2 min's old.. refused to feed him for 12 hours (first feed was milked off then went 12 hours without food).. finally she accepted him 24 hour's later - phew!

We weaned them last sunday, and so far - so good!

This is what we were left with.. :D

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We were furious with the vets, they had all of the dates and still scanned her far to early.. we took them to court (well didn't actually get that far) but ended up being paid money for our troubles.. we spent over 3k more then we would have if she was at home!!!

:-)
 
Hmm, well I am not surprised if she was scanned at 14 days, we had one that was scanned in foal today having been scanned not in foal two days ago (at 14 days by request of her owner). We use a very experienced specialist repro vet. Cysts and allsorts can get in the way but then we scan in general at 16, 28 and 60 days just to be sure.
 
Yep scanned not in foal then thought she hasn't come into season and looks extreamly tubby uh oh so had the vet out to do an internal and




Nope just fat ooop
 
Surely a manual or scan would have been, cheaper, quicker and more conclusive. What can possibly be taking so long, I'd be jumping up and down by now.
 
Cherrygarden said:
Surely a manual or scan would have been, cheaper, quicker and more conclusive. What can possibly be taking so long, I'd be jumping up and down by now.
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the vet came last Wednesday, bloods not posted to the lab until Thursday and with it being a long bank holiday, hence the delay.

according to the dates the mare would be due around now, so I presume that's the reason for not scanning......? : /
 
I doubt it, vets will scan right up until last minute if problems are suspected with placenta and at that size you could probably scan from the outside and see it. I didn't think bloods were accurate that late in but have to trust the vets I suppose. Hope it is the right news whatever happens : )
 
I had scan done late last year (I believe it was about 5 weeks gone) as the vet that I wanted out and to talk to about other issues had been on holiday. He is an experienced repro vet. He felt, and said her shape was typical of a mare that was in, and searched. He found a cyst first (I knew but forgot she had one) then scratched his head. If he had not been so convinced that she was in, he wouldnt have gone furthur. The baby was hiding, and he found it. (and what a cracker he has turned out to be)
I can easily see how a vet can miss, or miss a twin if one is hiding, as they are human, and nature is not always compliant. But it dont mean that I would be best pleased if it happened to me
 
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