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And Delicia has already ovulated :rolleyes:. It was plain to see on the scan. Bless! Shes very healthy and such a good girl for the vets (the vet is in love with her and wanted to take her home!). Because this has happened twice now, we are going to be injecting dee to bring her in again and then scan to keep an eye on her.

Mares are sneaky! More teasing with the little welsh section a stallion this weekend to confirm shes not in season and then we can inject her in a few days after that to bring her in again.

Bloody mares. Disappointed on one hand but very interesting to discuss dee with the Vets and see the scans. She had a uick lameness workup and was sound. Her vets that dealt with her pelvis issue were there and commented on how much Delicia has improved and how well she looked. So not totally a wasted day :).
 
HAHA i actually laughed at the sneakiness of it all. She seemed very pleased with herself ;)

It was really interesting to see the inside of her :D her overies look good and you can see the folical, but as soon as i say that little grey patch i knew. ;)

Shes looking fab tbh, best shes ever looked and such a good girl to handle. :)
 
Such a shame you can't have the vet coming to you - it would make things so much easier. The minute you think she's in season, vet comes up and scans daily until the follicle is the right size for her to be covered.
 
I think we can amy, we just dont have any stocks and i wasnt sure how she would react without them. I think we will ask for the vet to come to us, i dont mind paying the call out charge but as you say, it is so much easier :)
 
You don't need stocks. Just a tail bandage. Ask them to do a 'package' for you - which should bring costs down.
 
We are lucky we have an AI package but interesting what you think re: no need for stocks. Ill phone the vets later and speak with them, it would be a lot easier :)
 
How frustrating!! We had Zoomy scanned at the stud and, in the end, we just left her there so they could keep an eye on her and keep scanning. She took straight away and we now have a darling yearling :)

I am literally bursting with excitement at the thought of a Delicia foal!! She is so lovely :D I can't wait!!
 
Me too :D I think the YO wants to breed a foal out of dee too if she throws a cracker.

I dont mind paying for her to stay at stud but we arent that desperate yet. :)

Had to text the stallions owner as he's a walking, i wonder if dee realises the furstration she's causing whilst she happily grazes outside. I swear shes smirking.
 
Tell her to have a filly! Zoom's little colt Percy needs a girlfriend and I think Dee's baby would do nicely :D

Percy is ever so handsome so they will make a nice pair!

I'm sure Dee is being very deliberate.....mares love to be awkward!!
 
How frustrating. But really, it is far better not to have a foal so early. Did you really want it being born in February? If I were you, I would wait at least another month before trying again. You want to be able to put her out with the newborn in the sunshine, not have her and the foal couped up because it is raining, sleeting or snowing. I know how exciting it is, but really, if you wait you will be thankful when the time comes. All those hours you will have to spend near her stable at all hours of the night. You get really cold, believe me, and I was doing it in April!
 
I am sure shes diliberate too ;) She likes being awkward and the centre of attention :)

i am, however, very proud of her. :)

HAHA she hasnt even got a blob yet let alone a filly for you to breed with :P
 
Scanning wise you definately don't need stocks - I was worried about my mare being scanned without and she stood beautifully. I found a small bucket of feed in front of her worked really well in distracting her.
 
I think i will scan at home, less intrusive. Just about to ring the vets to arrange.

Wagtail, i can see where you are coming from and agree, the reasoning behind trying so early as shes never bred a foal before and we want as much of a chance as possible of getting her infoal this year. If she takes 1st time then thats not a problem as we have the facilities so the foal wont be stuck in a stable, but equally if she doesnt take first time i have time to try again. :)
 
I have breeding stocks but none of my mares have been in them. They're all good girls and if I am breeding them at home with fresh semen, they are just scanned in the field or stables and then bred in the stables. If I'm breeding them frozen I send them to the repro clinic a couple of days before they ovulate to make it easier for the vet to do 6 hourly scans on them. All of my mares follow-up scans are done either in the field or in the stables. My vet has a hand held computer with glasses and it's so much better than the fixed laptops in my opinion. When something exciting happens further on in the pregnancy, he always passes the glasses over to me so I can see what's going on :)

Dee is more than likely just having transitional heats right now anyway so it's better it's worked out like this as trying to breed on transitionals can just end up costing lots of money and no pregnancy. As Wagtail says, May is the best time to breed (imo) as then you have an April baby and the temperatures are a bit more stable then than in February.
 
Spring Feather - I like you saying you just do the breeding (I presume AI) in the stable. While my girl is perfect to scan I would not want to do the AI without stocks - the stud reported some rather un-ladylike behaviour when they were AI'ing her. She did NOT like it at all (rather understandable tho) :D
 
SF - you are more experienced then I. :) The vets seeing her again on monday (just spoke with them on the phone.)

MNM - oh how funny! I can just imagine it :)
 
mynutmeg said:
Spring Feather - I like you saying you just do the breeding (I presume AI) in the stable. While my girl is perfect to scan I would not want to do the AI without stocks - the stud reported some rather un-ladylike behaviour when they were AI'ing her. She did NOT like it at all (rather understandable tho) :D
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I hear you lol! Most of my broodmares I've owned for years so I know them very well indeed. We've been through many pregnancies together and they're such good girls that they don't require anything other than me holding them. They know the drill and they don't fuss about, they just stand quietly :) When they are being bred frozen however they do go in the stocks at the repro clinic as it's often in the middle of the night when they are bred and means no-one has to hold the horse as his assistant needs to be at the back to help him. I've bred one of my own mares fresh in the field at home but that was because it was night time again and it saved me bringing her up to the stables; was just quicker doing it in the field as it was a chilly night so didn't want to be out there for longer than was necessary. Any outside mares who come here to be bred/foaled down, are generally always bred in the stables/stocks though unless I know them and have bred them before. Yes AI, I only breed AI. Follow up scans are done wherever is easier; if it's a single mare being scanned then it's usually done in the field, if I have multiple mares being scanned on the same day I always take them into the stables to be scanned. It helps greatly knowing your mares (I mean for breeding) as saves from doing so many unnecessary scans pre-breeding. I can tell where my mares are in their cycles so even if they are being bred at the repro clinic they're only usually there for a day or two and then I bring them home after breeding. With fresh it's easy, I just call the vet and he comes to me to do the pre-breeding scans a couple of days prior, then I order my semen et voila!
 
Delicious_D said:
SF - you are more experienced then I.
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It also helps with mares who are old timer broodmares too :) I admit to being rather tentative with my maiden mares (every year I breed at least one maiden) as although I may know them well in a riding/owning capacity, you never quite know what they'll do first time they're scanned/bred, but touch wood, they've all been good girls too and I've been able to have them scanned in the same fashion as my seasoned broodmares. It's all down to what everyone feels comfortable doing though and for sure if you don't know how the mare will react then stocks are the safest place for the mare to be for herself and for the handlers :)
 
She was like an old pro and just stood there, having fun undoing herself just to proove it doesnt matter how much i tie her up, she can, and will, undo the knot. :)

I know dee inside out but with something new like this i cannot trust her, so, like you said, better to be safe then sorry. :)

SF i am in awe of your breeding operation, you know im going to ask for foal pics now though right :)
 
Delicious_D said:
Sounds very efficient SF! Quite the set up you have :) Bet it must take meticulous planning on your part?
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No not really :o Knowing your mares is by far the most important thing, it's all plain sailing if you know how they ovulate and how they act when they are at certain points in their cycles, then it's just setting the wheels in motion. The most stressful part of the whole breeding thing for me is when I order the semen, have it precleared at customs and then Fedex flag it for customs (because they are too blind/lazy to see it has already cleared!) and it misses its connection out to me :rolleyes: Then I either have to go to the airport, send someone else to the airport, or have it emergency couriered up to me ... and that happens time and time again so it gets a bit tedious and I get irritable and usually phone up Fedex at the airport and complain ... and then with the next mare, the cycle begins again. You'd think they get with the programme but they never seem to.
 
Delicious_D said:
I know dee inside out but with something new like this i cannot trust her, so, like you said, better to be safe then sorry. :)
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I was attacked by a mare once when breeding in my stables. She does not belong to me and she turned out to be an absolute nightmare to breed. She's a 17.2hh Hanoverian, so no small girl and she split the muscle on my arm as she went mental and smashed my arm when I was holding her. She always goes in the stocks and is never bred here at home anymore needless to say! When she was being bred last year, she actually lifted the stocks out of their footings and moved them across the breeding room! So yes being safe rather than sorry is always prudent. I wouldn't keep a mare like that tbh, that behaviour raises the blood pressure too high lol!

My breeding operation is only little, nothing exciting I'm afraid. I just do it in a way that makes life easier for me and less stressful for my girls.
 
My girl's a maiden so everything's new to her and to me as well. I can't believe how good she was to scan tho, didn't bother at all.
 
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