Queenbee
Well-Known Member
Hi there,
Just a very quick query as I am slowly losing my mind with worry
I feel sure that my mare must just be carrying a bit of weight, she always has a bit of a round tummy when she puts on the weight and I have looked at her in the past and thought that if I didn't know better I would think she was pregnant because thats how she carries her weight.
However this year I am freaking out a little, she went back in the field with ben after he was cut (and yes, both balls were removed!) after 2 1/2 weeks, asking the advice of a number of people on her and a few qualified vets, I got differing answers on how long I should wait, some said 2 weeks others 1 month, although for some the need to wait longer was to do with the hormones and not the fertility, so after 2 1/2 weeks Ebony went back in the field with ben.
Prior to this she had left him 13 months from now, so I know that she could not possibly be pregnant from that time.
abouth 5 weeks ago she just started to BLOAT! which she does, on grass in the summer, it is like she is filled with gas, you can still feel her ribs and you see no fat rolls but she looks like a barrel. I restricted her grazing and put her and ben on a circuit this has no more than 1/2 an acre of grass within this circuit, and she has a very small handful of chaff while he has his tea. she is TB x Friesian and is living off sweet FA.
After restricting her, the actual bloat went down and she just looked fairly well covered, now she is barrel like again, but without any grass, on the circuit she is constantly moving and there is sooooo little grass, I mean it, last summer she had acres of it and looked slimmer!!! She is carrying the weight really far back and IF she was in foal would be about 9 months now. The vet came up the other day to my friends mare, so I asked if it was possible and what would be the chances, she said it was possible but the chances are slim. In a nutshell:
She looks pregnant
She is fully wormed
She is in a paddock comprising of 2/3 acre of land with a max of 1/2 an acre of sparse grazing
She shares this field with my youngster, they are both above 15hh so I doubt she is getting too much grass
Please stop me freaking out and tell me she couldn't possibly be in foal!!! Has it ever happened to anyone on here that their mare caught after their colt had been cut?
Just a very quick query as I am slowly losing my mind with worry
I feel sure that my mare must just be carrying a bit of weight, she always has a bit of a round tummy when she puts on the weight and I have looked at her in the past and thought that if I didn't know better I would think she was pregnant because thats how she carries her weight. However this year I am freaking out a little, she went back in the field with ben after he was cut (and yes, both balls were removed!) after 2 1/2 weeks, asking the advice of a number of people on her and a few qualified vets, I got differing answers on how long I should wait, some said 2 weeks others 1 month, although for some the need to wait longer was to do with the hormones and not the fertility, so after 2 1/2 weeks Ebony went back in the field with ben.
Prior to this she had left him 13 months from now, so I know that she could not possibly be pregnant from that time.
abouth 5 weeks ago she just started to BLOAT! which she does, on grass in the summer, it is like she is filled with gas, you can still feel her ribs and you see no fat rolls but she looks like a barrel. I restricted her grazing and put her and ben on a circuit this has no more than 1/2 an acre of grass within this circuit, and she has a very small handful of chaff while he has his tea. she is TB x Friesian and is living off sweet FA.
After restricting her, the actual bloat went down and she just looked fairly well covered, now she is barrel like again, but without any grass, on the circuit she is constantly moving and there is sooooo little grass, I mean it, last summer she had acres of it and looked slimmer!!! She is carrying the weight really far back and IF she was in foal would be about 9 months now. The vet came up the other day to my friends mare, so I asked if it was possible and what would be the chances, she said it was possible but the chances are slim. In a nutshell:
She looks pregnant
She is fully wormed
She is in a paddock comprising of 2/3 acre of land with a max of 1/2 an acre of sparse grazing
She shares this field with my youngster, they are both above 15hh so I doubt she is getting too much grass
Please stop me freaking out and tell me she couldn't possibly be in foal!!! Has it ever happened to anyone on here that their mare caught after their colt had been cut?
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