Usually when you say abort it means the foal died, and if the foal was chewed upon by coyotes, I’m thinking not a chance it lived. Other wise if the foal lived then I would believe she would have been saying prematurely born.
Gross is all I can say. Never seen it and I’m not looking forward to seeing a prolapsed uterus either.
Send your friend lots of luck from me, I hope she lives and the foal doesn’t have to live as an orphan.
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Wow Gindarkh - what an ordeal - did the foal survive ?[/QUOTE]
No, it wasn’t even close to full-term, it was right at 9 months, was back in 2001, we were hit quite hard by MRLS where I lived then, lost all 3 foals that year, 2 by abortion, one was born alive but very weak and did not survive. Was a lovely bay colt, ( that part wasn’t coyote-chewed ! ), Selle Francais x Akhal-Teke.
I have never seen anything more horrible in all my years of breeding than my mare lying on her back in blood and dirt with her uterus hanging out. I recall frantically telling the vet on the phone that it was not a cow, but a HORSE with a prolapse, there was dead silence on his end of the phone, and then he said very quietly “…that’s really bad…”
We just washed and rinsed and washed and rinsed, and gently sort of bread-kneaded it back in. She never even ran a fever. We were very lucky we found her when we did, it had just happened, literally was 2 AM and she was out in the field, farm owner heard her kicking the side of the run-in shed, maybe to fend off the coyote ?
25 years ago we had a mare who tore while being bred by live cover. She went into a bucking spree before the stallion could get off and she prolapsed as he dismounted.
Fortunately the stallion was very easy to manage and I tied him to the rail and caught the mare’s uterus as she started to go down - all I could think of was shoving it back in before it was contaminated. The mare went from collapsing on the spot to back on her feet within 1 minute.
Vet took an hour to get there and he was able to clamp the tear from within the uterus. This tear healed very well but unfortunately an adhesion formed from the uterus to the bowel which caused a strangulation and she was pts at 12 days post. But she was healing from the uterine tear.
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No.,as far as I know (at least with the ones I dealt with), when the uterus prolapses, it turns inside out… So the contamination is to the inside, where the baby was. Still serious, of course, but no abdominal cavity involvement, Thank goodness.[/QUOTE]
The one and only that I witnessed also resulted in a small tear in the uterus which did allow introduction of bacteria into the abdominal cavity. There was little to no bleeding from the tear, but the vet told the owner her chances were grim and he was right.
True Colors… what is the status of the mare?
Alive as of yesterday (Day 3)
Havent heard as of today
If I have time I’ll scoot on over and see how she is doing today
Glad to hear she is alive, keep us posted.
Wondering how the mare is doing ?
Just spoke to her owners 
They said “She is back to her same old miserable and grouchy self, eating well, hasnt looked back and the foal is doing fabulously as well”
So - thank goodness, she overcame the poor odds that she was dealt and has made it through okay …
Thanks for asking - it reminded me to give them a call once again
Thats great to hear. Thanks for the update
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