Jamie is my tiny princess. She is cute, sweet, and a little full of herself. A diva. She took advantage of her tininess and squeezed through a gate this May. A one-time exposure to a stallion that is now gelded and she has been out of heat since. Until yesterday, four months later. She is throwing herself at the boys in desperation and they are responding to her. Another sign that she may have slipped a foal is that 2 days ago I saw a turkey vulture flying nearby, although that could be entirely circumstantial. Updrafts?
I checked the pasture pretty thoroughly but I'm guessing that if she had lost a foal the evidence would have been long gone by now. I'm just assuming she lost the foal. She is an 11-year-old maiden and it could be a blessing in disguise, it wasn't planned and the stallion was much, much larger. I could have lost them both in foaling . I have mixed feelings, and a surprising sadness. The stallion is now gelded, we could have seen what he produced. I love this little mare, she is just perfect in her tininess. Everything is tiny about and delicate about her. I had been talking to her belly, as I have done with all of my pregnant mares over the years. Have any of your ever had a similar experience? Was your experience false pregnancy or false heat? My gut says that she lost the foal.
This sort of segues into the next topic. Jamie was the ONLY foal I've had whose mother had been given pneumabort shots. Jamie has never cycled right, and I'm really glad I have never given these shots again. Jamie has just NEVER been right in that dept. Again, this relation to the shots could be circumstantial, but I really do not want to give something my gut is quite leery of, a second chance. I know we hear a lot about how vaccines can cause behavioral problems and infertility. I know that anything is possible, I know a lot of families in this day and age where one sibling has no fertility issues and the other has very serious issues. It is not related to overall health either, it just seems to be a 50/50 type of event in modern times.
Thanks for reading, I would love to hear your views and experiences.
I checked the pasture pretty thoroughly but I'm guessing that if she had lost a foal the evidence would have been long gone by now. I'm just assuming she lost the foal. She is an 11-year-old maiden and it could be a blessing in disguise, it wasn't planned and the stallion was much, much larger. I could have lost them both in foaling . I have mixed feelings, and a surprising sadness. The stallion is now gelded, we could have seen what he produced. I love this little mare, she is just perfect in her tininess. Everything is tiny about and delicate about her. I had been talking to her belly, as I have done with all of my pregnant mares over the years. Have any of your ever had a similar experience? Was your experience false pregnancy or false heat? My gut says that she lost the foal.
This sort of segues into the next topic. Jamie was the ONLY foal I've had whose mother had been given pneumabort shots. Jamie has never cycled right, and I'm really glad I have never given these shots again. Jamie has just NEVER been right in that dept. Again, this relation to the shots could be circumstantial, but I really do not want to give something my gut is quite leery of, a second chance. I know we hear a lot about how vaccines can cause behavioral problems and infertility. I know that anything is possible, I know a lot of families in this day and age where one sibling has no fertility issues and the other has very serious issues. It is not related to overall health either, it just seems to be a 50/50 type of event in modern times.
Thanks for reading, I would love to hear your views and experiences.