Your experiences of a horse with a perineal laceration

[Bluebelle666]

I am looking at buying a mare that had this when she foaled last year. She was stitched up (a job which I am informed cost £2500 in vets bills) and I'm told is now fully healed the only remaining issue is apparently when she poo's it does run down her leg a little.

I do not plan on breeding from her but other than in future breeding terms I'm struggling to find outcomes to research.

So...

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience of their mare suffering a third-degree perineal laceration?

The one reference on H&H that I can find speaks of a squelching noise coming from the back end when ridden - is this the case in all or a few?

Could there be any further complications years down the line?

Will I struggle with insurance? Will they discount covering lots of areas or only do this if she was bred from?


The mare sounds lovely and if the only come back from her injury is that she is not suitable to be bred from then that's fine, what worries me is if there are any further issues that I am unaware of.

(I didn't put this in breeding as that is not what I intend to do, and not in health as it is apparently now healed, it was experiences that I was after )

 

[Bluebelle666]

bump

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Although you don't intend to breed from her it will probably pay for you to put this in Breeding as more experienced people in there and some of them don't venture in here. Good luck with getting some answers



Just a thought though, could you not ring your vets and ask them for their opinion?

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Although you don't intend to breed from her it will probably pay for you to put this in Breeding as more experienced people in there and some of them don't venture in here. Good luck with getting some answers



Just a thought though, could you not ring your vets and ask them for their opinion?

 

[rachi0]

If it's repaired then you should have no problems... unless you are going to breed from her.. in which case she should have an assisted delivery to check presentation.. that the foal isn't going another rv tear!

I had one mare that presented normally and the foals feet were out the vagina - head was in the correct position and she had a huge contraction.. as she did the foal somehow lifted its head slightly and pushed through the membranes and its nose ended up poking out her anus....

She is fine and has gone onto have more foals after her surgery.. she lives a happy life!

 

[Clippy]

We had one, it was a bit offputting. When she went any faster than a walk she would take air in behind and expel it so she sounded like she was farting with every stride. She looked terrible under her tail too with this healed rip in her lady bits.