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Discussion on Maiden mare waxed and dripping at 9 months
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 15, 1999 - 9:53 am:
I have a pregnant 5-year-old maiden mare. Her last breeding date was Aug. 21. Over the weekend she started to wax and drip milk. The vet palpated on Sunday and the foal is alive.
The mare had twins, but the vet pinched one off. Her remembers feeling it squish.
The mare is very uncooperative about allowing us to give her Regumate in a syringe, and slipping it to her in a variety of feeds has not worked. Ideas?
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 15, 1999 - 6:32 pm:
Sally,
Have you tried putting Regumate on crimped oats?
My mare also was on Regumate. Putting it on a small amount of oats daily, she would gobble them right up!
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 16, 1999 - 6:29 am:
Hello Sally,
If you want to feed it to her trying mixing the regumate in some molasses or adding a small amount of apple cider vinegar to cover the taste. If this fails, I always found mixing medicine with yogurt before putting it in the syringe made it stick to the inside of the mouth much better. It may iomprove compliance by making the medicine taste better but for most horses I do not think taste is the big problem. As to the problems she is giving you, a chain over the nose to correct bad behavior will have most horses taking oral medicine calmly within 5 minutes of the beginning of the training session.
DrO
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