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[Willow Tree Miniatures]

hi katie,

ask your vet about a simple blood test that can be sent to B.E.T. Labs www.betlabs.com they can do a pregnancy test from a blood sample. it will not hurt your filly, you'll have your answer for sure then so you can be prepared. it would be like doing a coggins test. very simple and inexpensive. check out the website, go to the equine link, reproductive management, then pregnancy testing. i have used it with my minis when a rectal exam was not possible and have been very pleased with the results. they fax the results back to your vet's office in a timely fashion. good luck and i am sorry to hear about all of your problems. keep your chin up!

 

[Little Wolf Ranch]

Thanks I have contacted BET about pricing and details. Hopefully they aren't too bad and I can find out.

WJS, I am so sorry about your ordeals - we've both had a very bad week apparently!

Hugs!!

Well now that I know that the resulting foal cannot be registered, I am REALLY hoping that she isn't - not just because of compromising her health but I don't want to be the cause of an unregistered foal.

 

[Willow Tree Miniatures]

your vet may have to contact them for you... you have to have a doctor/vet send the test in and have an account with them...??? let me know what you find how. they are very reliable and fast. good luck.

 

[Marty]

1) NEVER give a Lutalyse injection without getting a vet's advice. NEVER.

End of. Never attempt aborting a foal over around six weeks (vet would advise on actual timing as it does depend on how great the risk of carrying the foal is against how great the risk of aborting)but I personally would never give a lutalyse injection myself, anyway, If you need the jab, you need a Vet.

ABSOLUTELY! And I could be wrong but I think that using the Lutalyse injection you only have a window of opportunity of 12 days after the deed was done. Good luck. This whole thing is scary.

 

[rabbitsfizz]

Actually the time to jab with lutalyse is, I believe, on the day the mare would be due back in season, but the window is small, and I do not think a jab would be safe once the foetus is actually established. I do know that the one time out vet seriously considered aborting a just gone half term foal, he did say the mare would only have a 50% chance of survival.

In the end we did not have to do it, thank goodness.

 

[Little Wolf Ranch]

GREAT NEWS!!. . .Well, sorta

BETLABS will do a "Total Estrogens" pregnancy test for only $22 after (they say) 110 days but they can tell you (unreliably, of course) as soon as 90 days according to their Total Estrogens chart on http://www.betlabs.com/preg.html

Since I haven't had my other mares confirmed as of yet, I am going to do them as well so it will be $66 to get all three done - VERY cheap if you ask me. My vet even offered to draw the blood and send it off for a minimal charge too, so I guess I will have my answer soon enough!

Hopefully my filly isn't and hopefully my mature mares are

. . .but if they aren't - they just get to go back to being little show divas for a few months atleast.

 

[uwharrie]

I am not sure what drug to use but am pretty sure that aborting the fetus early would be much easier on a mare so young than letting her go full term at her age.

We had a QH mare a number of years ago. I bought her to breed to a specific stallion. when she did not come into season the vet did give her an injection to come in. at the time we were not sure if she was pregnant or not since the former owner had said she was running with a jack. Vet said if she was pregnant she would abort the foal if not pregnant she would just cycle in. This was an equine reproductive specialist, but back in the days before most had ultrasound. He did try to palpate but she would not let him. ( she was not in foal BTW)

 

[Mominis]

That's great Katie! Let us know how it goes!