It is better to overreact than to underreact.
I’m so glad that everything looks good!!
Great news, Kyla! Please keep us posted.
Kyla – Whew! You must have been so worried. What your vet suggested makes perfect sense. I’m sure you’ll have a great foal in the next few days or weeks. Hey - 324 today - you’re in the homestretch.
Happy to read such a good update.: All good thoughts coming from me to you and your mare.
I agree, better to be safe than sorry!! But so glad for the good update!!
Thank you all again for your good thoughts!
Yes, Kathleen…day 324 and in the homestretch!! yay!
Cindy…we just used our regular vet for fresh semen…weirdly enough both mares came into heat at the same time so we did one ultrasound, made a guess, ordered the semen in one shipment and bred both mares without checking where they were at because it was the long weekend coming up so we couldn’t have ordered again anyways. Sure enough…it worked!
But for everything else we use Deb (and took mares to her for pre breeding repros this spring). She is good at what she does and goes out of her way. I am sure you will be happy with her. Who are you breeding to??
Well the only ones I am going to use Deb for are the pre breeding on Bucky (she is getting DMSO lavage, culture/cytology etc) and Silhouette (Sagnol/Vulcaan) who will be bred to Blue Eyed Dream since it is a US breeding and didn’t want to have to worry about customs etc.
The other two I will breed locally. My other buckskin warmblood mare Mascara I will breed to Sagnol and my Danish Warmblood mare Rampage (Rambo) is being bred to Sir Gregory. So keeping my fingers crossed all goes well!
Hopefully I will be picking Bucky up Sunday and drop Silhouette off to be bred next week if she is cooperating 
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So the one mare we actually did manage to get pregnant last year is due with her Quaterback foal here soon . She is at day 323 today and today has developed a bloody whitish discharge. We called the vet immediately and got her on antibiotics and have the vet coming to check to see if the foal is still alive.
I have never experienced this before …anything else I need to know?? Any advice? Thoughts??
Thanks in advance!
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If its a bloody white discharge are you sure its not just the mucous plug? At 323 days your foalie could well be at term, its quite normal for a mare to foal between 320 - 370 days and some extend the "normaility btween 310-380 days.
If its any consolation our mare had placentitis diagnosed at 374 days, mares bag filled started running milk, muscle tone slackened started rolling and rubbing and awaited for her to abort. Contacted my vet who examined her, said foal was alive but we would just have to wait and see what happned.I got in touch with Jos and the member breeders on the equine reproduction.com website and everyone advised me to check for placentitis. Anyway to cut a long story short, we started her on antibiotics antinflammatories and regumate double dose. All signs of pending abortion subsided, one week passed and another… and another… and another… and a month… and two months… and three months… and now nearly four months since the onset… :eek: and she STILL HASNT FOALED! The foal is still alive the vet has examined her three times at intervals. We suspect that the placentitis and medical treatment has delayed the foals development but we are now at 392 days…
I hope your mare is ok and will follow for updates but try not to worry at 323 days the foal should be viable, the only recomendation from our vets if she did have placentitis is to do a routine IgG and cover the foalie at birth with antibiotics becuase it could have been exposed to bacteria if the mare does indeed have placentitis…
Not to hijack, but L&L is your mare still on regumate? Wouldn’t regumate be counterindicated at this point?
Continued jingles for your mare and foal, Kyla.
no we stopped giving the regumate at 320 days
L&L Did you mean 274 days?
L and L…
You must have missed my post on the first page but it does turn out that it is 99.9 percent just some of the mucus plug come loose as she has been straining to pee (which is now white/milky because of this stage in the pregnancy) because the bladder is squished and the foal is huge and doing very well. All looks normal. We are keeping her on the therapy for placentitis as recommended by both vets JUST IN CASE because it’s not harmful to do so for the next week and it’s better safe then sorry. So it was good news.
That is really bizarre about your mare though! Very strange…you must just be dying for that foal to make an appearance!! Is she at least looking like she will have it any day soon? Thinking good thoughts and hoping you have your healthy baby very soon!
Oh sorry, yes I missed it but that is good news and sound advice, never can be too careful…
In all honesty no, she doesn’t look as if she is imminent, over the last couple of days we have had a little filling of her bag and some loss of muscle tone and would say her vulva has become slightly looser too, so all steps in the right direction but think she has a few more days yet. However with everything she has been through and with the increased risk of redbag delivery we aren’t leaving her unsupervised for a minute hence my 2.25am post…
