Trick mare to get pregnant.... FOR BREEDING EXPERTS!!

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I have a little irish cob mare who i am currently trying to get into foal.... lat year we tried with a couple of different stallions AI but none took and she seemed to have some reaction to the semen extender or something, hence we tried natural covering. She took after the first natural covering but at the 17 day scan it was only 1/3 the size it should have been and she re-absorbed before the next scan. This season we have tried once with the same stallion for natural covering and the same thing happened with re-absorbing. someone mentioned it could be because she is in a field with other mares and as they come into season they bring her back into season and she reabsorbs, the advice they gave me was to separate her from all the other horses so they cant touch noses etc which i have done. However, she seems terribly lonely! she is standing by the fence with her ears pricked when i walk past and i feel mean just leaving her on her own. I want to try and see if seperating her from the others helps but how can i give her some company? she is currently with a flock of sheep but they dont seem to do the trick, any ideeas???
 
not a breeding expert....

but how about trying her in a field with a friend that is already pregnant? may not always work..... but it may over come the season/friend problem..... if that horse is not having seasons obviously

and you are positive there are no medical problems???
 
Sounds like she just could be one of those mares who's just not meant to take, separating her and stressing her out isn't going to help at all and will make less likely to take, and I doubt other mares in season around her will have that much of an affect to make her re-absorb. I have mare herds where I've had only one in foal and the rest not and never had a problem, but I've also come across mares who for what ever reason never get in foal.
TBH unless your mare is a world beater and top notch I'd save your cash and buy a youngster - the prices are just rock bottom at the mo and you can pick up a very very nice baby for far less than the cost of breeding one, the market is flooded too so plenty of choice - plus you know what you are getting and with no risk to your mare, not to mention missing the weeks of sleepless nights!!!:p
 
Whoever told you that OP is talking a load of boloxi blues if you ask me. I don't know any horse breeder who doesn't keep all their broodmares together and obviously they don't all get pregnant at the same time. My repro vets always say "happy horses get pregnant" and I think they have a valid point. I wouldn't be taking the mare away from her field mates. Sounds like she either has low progesterone levels or she needs flushing. Did you have her checked/swabbed internally for any infection prior to breeding?
 
Put her back with the other mares. I've never known anyone separate them off... is this a specialist repro vet? is the mare definitely clean inside?
 
Put her back & get a specialist stud vet. If you're in the south-west I can recommend a very good stud vet, who will give you an honest answer regarding your mare (which BTW may not be what you want to hear). She only does stud work.
 
To try to answer all in one.... She has been swabbed and had an infection which has been treated and she is now clean... Has had biopsy of her womb/uterus and showed more advanced metrisis levels than expected... I use Peter fennelly from Baskerville Horgan and he is a specialist stud vet...! I guess the next question would be does anyone know of any pregnant mares in the south Oxfordshire area?? Haha thank you for all the replies!
 
Question, why do you want a foal .... there are lorry loads of irish cob mares going off to the continent every day to come to not very nice ends as there are huge amounts of them about.

I am sure you have fantastic reasons, but as you don't seem to have a lot of knowledge and this doesn't seem an easy task please please think very careful, it might just be nicer to buy a little foal which doesn't have a future ...... on Farming Today they were saying you can buy them for less that £20 at auctions these days there is such a glut.
 
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