Selling Mares in Foal as if they Arnt!

[rachier]

New mare at our yard (only been there 3 days was in the field on sunday night) and YO looked out of her window the next morning..... and seen a 'deer!' You can only guess...... a tiny ickle chestnut foal. Considering it was -2 degrees it is lucky to survive, and also mare required vet because she hadnt passed the afterbirth.

The guy had only bought it 7 weeks ago, riding it as normal..... surely the past owner must have known that it had ran with a stallion and could be pregnant.

It is wrong for someone to put both the mare and unknown foals life in danger - they probably just wanted rid of the mare for that reason. (Just to add i am aware that a vetting would probably have picked this up - but it still isnt on!)

Has anyone had any unexpected foalies popping out when they least expected it?

 

[eventrider23]

I've known people who have had this occur to them sometimes in the past and TBH the previous owner could genuinely not have realised the mare was in foal. Yes she may have run out with the stallion but if scanned it might have looked like she wasn't, etc. There is also the possibility that the previous owner had not had it so long and so was completely ignorant to any possibility of the mare being in foal.

 

[mlm]

i knew of someone who bought a pony to bring on and sell. they went to the yard one morning and there was a lovely coloured foal. they thought someone had dumped it there . they then realised it had come from the pony. luckily they were both fine. i just think if you do know it is quite irresponsible and possible life threating to the mare to tell anyone.

 

[JanetGeorge]

It probably wasn't deliberate. I bought an RID mare who had been covered but scanned empty. She was an older mare with a dropped belly so though I noticed her dropping a little weight towards the end of winter and becoming pot-bellied (I just wormed her and upped her haylage!) the first I knew was when I spotted her lying down with a white 'something' behind her. Foal appeared 10 minutes later and all was well - although we had a few 'moments' with another mare in the field who wanted that foal VERY badly.

Since then, Portia has had 4 'official' foals for me and she ALWAYS gives the vet trouble at scanning! She parks her foalies in the oddest places and they're very difficult to find - even on the 28 day scan.

 

[severnmiles]

Very lucky! My old boss lost a foal mid June because it got cold in the dew. She now won't foal anything outside.

I think Josie (if she is even still around) on here had the same thing when she bought her mare. Good luck to mare and foal!

 

[magic104]

I have bought 3 mares that have turned out to be in-foal. The 1st was from a dealer who had no idea, when I bought her in Nov, she foaled beginning of Apr. The 2nd was a 2yo when bought so no one thought she could be in-foal, but she foaled a nice filly the following year. The last one was my daughter's pony, bought Ja & foaled July. A dealer has a shipment from Ireland & a few months later about Dec/Jan (cant quiet remember), the mare who had been jumping produced a colt foal. It happens all the time, & most of the time no one is aware, it is just one of those things.

 

[brackenhappy]

been there done that one!!!!!

bought a mare not in foal! was going to be put down for not being in foal, me being a soft touch bought said mare and 6 and a bit months had a lovely filly on the ground!! luckily knew what stallion she had been with! blood test was negitive so the person said personally i dont think it was done!!!

 

[Grey_Arab]

Well, we've had two mares foal last year that weren't meant to be in foal (YO had turned them out with some 2yo colts that she didn't think could cover, well they could, and did!), one was a little RS pony that had a lovely filly, then the other was a coloured mare who had a lovely black filly, she foaled about three months after the first pony and was pregnancy tested and was negative, she went on loan and then one morning the people who had her on loan went down and there was the filly!