nootka
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Well, one of my "ex" mares has passed away. I never really "wanted" to sell this mare, and really the only reason I sold her was because I needed some room, also thought she had the best chance of being sold w/her nice pedigree and color, etc. She gave me my best broodmare, and I did retain her daughter.
I heard from her new owner that she died very suddenly of renal failure. It was fast and awful, from the sounds of it, and there was nothing they could do.
I have a bit of a dilemma from this situation:
I sold the mare bred (bred July 10, 2004), and ultrasounded so. She was sold/left the farm on about 10/15/04, so she was over 90 days in foal, then. Previously, the mare had lost a foal at about 22 days when she was trailered home from the breeding farm, but noone was sure if it was the trailer ride, or had she absorbed before, because she was in heat when she stepped off the trailer (only about three hour ride).
I did hear the mare had come into heat last Spring, and I felt awful, but was perfectly willing to re-breed her. Or use the breeding on another mare of their choice. I sold the mare at a pretty low price, probably half of what I paid for her, and a lot less than I had been asking, because it was getting down to winter and we needed the space. I don't know how that's here nor there, but she was in good health and had never been sick a day that I'd owned her.
I get the email and I think the owners are upset that I sold them a mare and foal and now they have nothing (I totally sympathize with them). I don't know what to offer them to make it alright. I can't really offer a refund as I did not make any money to speak of, and I don't know that it's my fault that 9 months after she left my place, she died suddenly.
BUT...that being said, I have offered to discount to them a half sibling (a filly) to the foal they wanted, or offered them first dibs on a discounted '06 foal that will be by the same stallion and out of the mare's own daughter.
I was thinking somewhere along the lines of $500 off? Am I doing right, here, or do you think I should refund money?
At this point, I think they are probably in shock, and I've sent them an email w/my offers and of course condolences (Heck, I feel like I've lost a member of my family).
I just feel so badly. I don't know if being on Regumate would have saved the foal, but that was another suggestion. I had asked my vet about that a long time ago in relation to the other issue, but he said no, it would not have helped in the other case, as obviously she had no trouble carrying foals to term, she had three of them for me w/no trouble or intervention, one of them she traveled on a trailer during her pregnancy at 40 days gestation.
Help!
Thanks,
Liz M.
I heard from her new owner that she died very suddenly of renal failure. It was fast and awful, from the sounds of it, and there was nothing they could do.
I have a bit of a dilemma from this situation:
I sold the mare bred (bred July 10, 2004), and ultrasounded so. She was sold/left the farm on about 10/15/04, so she was over 90 days in foal, then. Previously, the mare had lost a foal at about 22 days when she was trailered home from the breeding farm, but noone was sure if it was the trailer ride, or had she absorbed before, because she was in heat when she stepped off the trailer (only about three hour ride).
I did hear the mare had come into heat last Spring, and I felt awful, but was perfectly willing to re-breed her. Or use the breeding on another mare of their choice. I sold the mare at a pretty low price, probably half of what I paid for her, and a lot less than I had been asking, because it was getting down to winter and we needed the space. I don't know how that's here nor there, but she was in good health and had never been sick a day that I'd owned her.
I get the email and I think the owners are upset that I sold them a mare and foal and now they have nothing (I totally sympathize with them). I don't know what to offer them to make it alright. I can't really offer a refund as I did not make any money to speak of, and I don't know that it's my fault that 9 months after she left my place, she died suddenly.
BUT...that being said, I have offered to discount to them a half sibling (a filly) to the foal they wanted, or offered them first dibs on a discounted '06 foal that will be by the same stallion and out of the mare's own daughter.
I was thinking somewhere along the lines of $500 off? Am I doing right, here, or do you think I should refund money?
At this point, I think they are probably in shock, and I've sent them an email w/my offers and of course condolences (Heck, I feel like I've lost a member of my family).
I just feel so badly. I don't know if being on Regumate would have saved the foal, but that was another suggestion. I had asked my vet about that a long time ago in relation to the other issue, but he said no, it would not have helped in the other case, as obviously she had no trouble carrying foals to term, she had three of them for me w/no trouble or intervention, one of them she traveled on a trailer during her pregnancy at 40 days gestation.
Help!
Thanks,
Liz M.