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Had to call the vet out the other day as my mare looked like she had mastitis, but she last had a foal 4 1/2 years ago.
She has just been covered and 2 weeks later the swelling happened, noticed it at evening feeds and the next morning spoke to the vet, who came out that afternoon, but by this time one of her boobs had actually burst and half the insides were hanging out, and horrid yellow pus everywhere.
So anyway she is on 5 days of 2 types of antibiotics, and the boob that burst is nearly looking normal but the other one is still really big and swollen.
Has anyone else ever had this as the vet said he had not seen it before, and if you have had it was the mare able to feed a foal.
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I know a mare that foaled 9 years ago that gets milk/mastitis each year if she sees grass! The erruption of mastitis udders is reasonably common in the dairy goats that I work with (3000 milkers). Depending upon the amount of udder involved many of them can milk on that side again but at a reduced quantity. What happens is that the udder walls off the mastitis but like every abcess it has to go somewhere and if it errupts outwards it can heal cleanly, but looks dreadful whilst doing so, if it bursts inwards then it goes systemic and results in a dead animal. The main thing is to let it drain fully so that no yuk is kept inside. If both sides are affected we do not see if the goat will come right it is pts as they are a commercial enterprise.
Are you milking the other side of your mare to remove the fluid and clean out the yuk on that side?
 
Never experienced that laniep (thank god!) but my rescue mare had terrible mastitis from losing an unweaned foal in tragic circumstances. The vets warned that mastitis can kill, as rabatsa says, because left untreated the infection can escape into the blood stream and become septicaemia. My girl had to have back to back antibiotics because by the end if the 1st 10 day treatment it still hadn't cleared up. So she needed 20 days antibiotics! So hang in there and don't hesitate to tell the vets you need to continue the antibiotics if your girl is still tender after the 5 day course has finished. Love to know how she does - do the vets think the covering is linked to the mastitis, ie hormones and what not?
 
my mare randomly started producing milk a month or 2 ago. I had only had her since october so she could be in foal. Got the vet out, he did and internal. no foal "BUT THERE'S MILK!!!!" i said. Apparently there in estrogen in clover and it can make some mares produce milk and have a phantom. U could full on milk her! I had to leep a careful eye. Was recommended to give epson salts. worked wonders. within a couple of weeks she was completely dryed up.
Hope it helps
Elle
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OH's mare has had it 3 times in the last couple of years - last foaled 6 years ago. Vet said it is the kind of infection they become prone to and can be caused by flies/mud etc getting onto teat - we have a supply of norodine at home to start her on as soon as it starts and call the vet for stronger IM antibio's for next day
 
The other udder popped this morning and is leaking well and the first udder that popped has now gone down.
Had the vet back out today, and he was happy with her and said she shoud be fine, but the chances of her producing milk again is a chance and i could end up with a foal and no milk.
Luckily i think she has absorbed the foal as she was showing to my stallion today.
So do i keep holding warm clothes on the nipples to help the yucky stuff come out
 
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