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Heidi Hocker
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Username: Heidih
Post Number: 144
Registered: 9-1999
| | Posted on Monday, Apr 28, 2003 - 4:19 pm: |   |
Hi Dr. O.
We have an older AQHA mare (around 16 or 17 years old) that boards in our barn. She's been bred every year and produces outstanding foals.
This year she prolapsed her uterus after delivering her current colt. There was an experienced attendant there who called the vet immediately. He was able to replace the uterus and told the owner that that the mare would either be dead by morning or be just fine. This was only the 2nd prolapse he had seen in his 20 years of practice and the first mare had evidently been prolapsed overnight before he got there, so she couldn't be saved.
Well this mare has survived so far. You'd never know anything happened to her. The foal (a nice healthy colt) is 10 days old now and the mare hasn't had any other complications. She's moving well when turned out, and basically her normal self. She's eating well and her foal seems to be thriving on her milk. He's alert and active.
What we are all wondering is whether she will ever be able to foal again? The owner has already decided to give her this year off for sure and if he feels that further pregnancies will endanger her life, she won't be bred again.
She is however, a mare that has produced several world champion contenders and has multiple offspring that have Superiors and ROM's in roping (as well as making good $$ on the roping circuits). Her foals are sold before they hit the ground.
We'd appreciate any insight or information you can give us about the future of this mare.
Thanks for your time. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 8269
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003 - 4:47 am: | |
I have been unable to find any large studies to draw trends from however the equine reproductive specialists feel that where the prolapse is uncomplicated (uterine artery rupture, excessive trauma to the uterus, etc...) these mares may be rebred back the same season. I have waited a year, rebred, and had no problems.
DrO |
Heidi Hocker
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Username: Heidih
Post Number: 145
Registered: 9-1999
| | Posted on Tuesday, Apr 29, 2003 - 8:30 am: | |
Thanks DrO, That's the information we were looking for. Since the local vet had so little experience, he wasn't sure if she'd be breedable again.
Thanks again for the wonderful site. |
