Selling Mares in Foal as if they Arnt!

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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?
 
Before I bought my mare, she belonged to my now mother in law and she had an unexpected foal...despite having a full vetting!! The vet said she looked 'a bit wormy' so she was given various medicines to improve this. She was also rebacked and school and jumped when she was in foal then sadly, one day my MIL noticed something was wrong with horse so called vet (of course, it was a sunday so her vet wouldn't come out!!) but they did manage to get one in the end and it turned out she was giving birth to a dead foal. It was fully grown but dead...we were VERY lucky not to lose her, but she's a tough old bird. MIL contacted person he bought are off, she said she knew nothing about it and hadn't owned the horse for very long herself, she'd come over from Ireland...
 
Bloody hell, thats one hell of a late foal!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really hope mummy and foal do well.

I bet it will be a right tough nut!
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As for the old owners........... nothing surprises me these days and I'm just glad the the mare is away from the old owners and hope her new owner will do her justice.

We all need some pics of the foal!
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Yes I know of someone that bought 2 ponies (both mares) for their daughters to ride and whilst they were away on holiday their son went to the field to check the ponies and found what at a first glance he thought to be a calf but turned out to be a coloured foal ! This mare had been working up until the point of them going away & would have been in pony club camp if they hadn;t have been on holiday. The previous owner couldn't shed any light on it ? but said that there had been a coloured gelding in the field with her ! Luckily the other one turned out not to be in foal.
 
Ill try and get some pics this weekend - its dark when im down through the week! Its so beautiful though, its about 9hh and the mare is 17hh, so we all cant wait to see how it turns out!!

They have called it 'Saint Nick!'.
 
There was one on our yard. Little welshie bought for a 10yo boy. Little lad was riding it as normal, jumping it and generally having fun like 10 year olds do. The mare was getting fatter and fatter so they thought it might be pregnant.

Got bloods done and came back negative so carried on riding it as normal and put it on a diet and increased workload.

Then it waxed up so they rang the vet, following further investigation it appeared they had mixed the bloods up by accidednt, so there was someone out there who thought they had a pregnant horse and didn't.

The foal was born healthy a few days later. Considering it had been ridden quite strongly by lots of children trying to get it to jump as they thought she was being naughty I am very suprised all went well. The foal is now weaned and the mum is like a totally different pony now.

Could have been a totally diferent story though considering all our mares and geldings are mixed and about 50 of them are together and the fields are not in good view of the yard as they are so large, it could have been out there for hours and hours if they hadnt realised it was waxed up.
 
i know of someone who ran a tb stud, had a very very well bred race mare in to get in foal. after 2 years of trying to get it in foal, the owner gave up and gave it to the YO to hunt. she got it fit, and one sunday morning in mid-winter (after a hard day's hunting the day before) it foaled, perfectly healthy foal, even tho its mummy had been galloping and jumping the day before. this was a very experienced lady, and the mare had not looked in foal, waxed up, nothing.
 
A mare I bought a while ago unexpectantly gave birth 2 weeks after I bought her, being galloped about most days on the moor by the previous owner, unaware that she was pregnant. They had only owned her a few months before me so they genuinely didn't realise as she certainly didn't look pregnant. I was a proud owner of a lovely appaloosa cob until he was weaned and I sold him to a friend.
 
Lol, a girl at college bought a mare, it went eventing the day before it dropped!! We also got one to one of the riding schools, it must have been covered the day it was delivered to us as it was almost a year of it being ridden hard (again another one who was thought to just be naughty) and one day its belly dropped, we couldnt do its girth up, by a long way, vet was called on pregnancy suspicion and we had a week before it dropped a filly.

It is said that the unexpected pregnancies where mares are in hard work foal so well as the mares muscles are well developed and she is fit for foaling.
 
We bought a coloured cob mare about 15 years ago and asked several times before we bought her if she could be in foal (she was an experienced mum) no deffinately not. However we ended up with a beutiful coloured colt foal, our vet had said that she was in foal about three months before she dropped. She is 14.3 and the dad was a hanoverian (we think after some detective work) unfortunately after a month of nursing and hand feeding we lost him. We nearly lost the mare as well, she had lamminitus, matritus and mastitus, in the first 24 hours after she had him.
 
The father of one of my daughter's friends, who was very novicey but wouldn't take advice from me or anyone else, bought two mares at a sale for him and his daughter. His mare turned out to be in foal but he had no idea until shortly before the birth. All 3 horses were soon sold on because they were totally unsuitable for novices in the first place.
 
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