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It's never easy is it!

I have really struggled with my 2 broodmares this year.

The first one wouldn't take at all this year and we have decided to retire her, we have had 2 lovely foals from her (see my albums) and so have decided she can be a field ornament from now on.

My second had a foal as a youngster in Germany, and I decided to put her in foal this year to the great Mylord Carthago (both mares are based in France). However she was having none of this and wouldn't catch. So towards the end of the season as a last chance we decided to try another stallion...she took...with twins!

Gah. Apparently there are an unprecedented number of twins this year.

Anyway they were too close to pinch one, so we tried waiting to see if they would move apart or one would reabsorb. No such luck. She has been scanned with 2 healthy embryos, exactly the same size!

So now they have decided to perform a fairly new technique of injecting one embryo in the heart with penicillin.

There is only a 50/50 chance this will work, so I have my fingers, toes, legs & eyes crossed for the best!

Please can I have some vibes!
 
Ah, so sorry - fluffy in me can help feeling sorry for the foal, but you are absolutely right - best of luck to you and your mare xx
 
She is going to stud today. So I will be feeling sick from now until we know the results!!

I know I can't help feeling fluffy too, but she would most likely abort both at 9 months anyway, so it is better this way.

She is quite a big girl, and both embryos are big and healthy, so I would never risk the health of my girl. They will just try to inject the nearest/easiest one.
 
Well it has been done, and for now it has been successful.

As in one has been injected and has died and the other is still alive.

So now its just a case of waiting, fingers crossed for no infection etc. She will be scanned again in a week, and then again at a later date.

Let's hope all this worry has been worth it!
 
Unfortunately looks like she is aborting. Started this morning :(

They wont wash her out until next week.

Very gutting. No babies next year for us, will be a bit quiet and boring!

Oh well better luck next year
 
Arggghhhhhh it's alive!!

The vet came yesterday to wash her out and scanned to find that 1 twin was dead and shrinking, and the other alive and growing!

Can't believe it :D over the moon

Now where is my bubblewrap...!
 
Thank you. Not to mention all the money spent this year!

I'm trying not to get too excited as it's still along long way to go yet, and we have lost one at 8 months before, which really wasn't nice.

My dad is already thinking of names! In France they name by letter for the year. So everything born in the same year begins with the same letter.

I think next year is C
 
That's great news! I wish now that we'd tried the 'cardiac stick' with my mare who Junior Vet missed 28 day twins with! Found them at 55 days - vet thought the procedure your mare had was a bit 'iffy' and decided to try another procedure which involves damage to the chorioallantoic membrane - rather than complete rupture. We THOUGHT it had worked - for 5 days. Then the other one went!
 
She was discharging, with blood a couple of days after she came home from having the procedure.

I don't know why. We are just pessimists so we immediately decided she was aborting! But I think the vets were surprised too! My dad was scouring every inch of the field every day bless him.

It is the first time they have done this procedure at the stud so they are over the moon. Something to add to their CV :-)
 
Well I wish you the best of luck for the rest of her pregnancy, I hope you have no further worries! Let us know how she gets on.
 
Woo hoo she's finally dropped!

Fabbie produced our first colt in the early hours of Sunday morning. sometime between 01:00 and 03:45, she was sneaky and did it alone.

We have no name as yet, so any suggestions welcome. His official name has to begin with a C this year, as this is the French system.

So anyway here he is:

I can't help but call him Colin!

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Fantastic, congratulations. Didn't see this thread last year, so when it popped up today I found it worrying, sad, interesting, amazing and finally absolutely brilliant all In ten minutes.
You must be delighted and so relieved. Your quite right, it's never easy.
Again, another massive congratulations, he looks wonderful.
 
Fantastic news congratulations! I still find it amazing how that little bubble you see on the first scan turns into a foal!
 
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