Kari
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I could really use some input/advice on this, so thought the best place to bring it up would be here!
I am STILL waiting for a foal. I thought the mare would foal long before now, but NO, it has to be on HER terms. Hmph! She’s obviously bred as I’ve seen/felt the foal and her belly keeps shifting sides.
The problem is, she’s been diagnosed with endometriosis, and I’ve read up on it and talked to different people, and the concurring opinion is that the best thing to keep the endo manageable is to keep her bred. No problem… a friend is “loaning†a stallion to me once she foals, so I can rebreed her. Herein lies the problem. I have to leave for school in 3 1/2 weeks, and as nothing gets done regarding the horses unless I do it or have a big hand in helping, nothing gets done. I won’t be breeding her on the foal heat, so she’d have to foal NOW (don’t see that happening… maybe in a week), and I could maybe hand breed her once. I could just stick ‘em out in the pasture together, but besides that being unsafe for the foal, I have an INTENSE dislike for the guesswork regarding when the foal’s coming that comes with pasture breeding. Would it cause havoc with the endo if I waited a few months after she foals to pasture breed? Then the foal could be weaned first…
I will graduate in March, and it looks like l be coming back home for a while. As it’s getting so late in the breeding season, I’m thinking of waiting until March to rebreed her, provided I still have access to a stallion. But will leaving her open for approx. 7-8 months cause problems with her endometriosis?
I cannot afford to send her out to be rebred, or that’s what I’d do.
Thanks for any help or opinions or advice you can gilve me!
Kari
I am STILL waiting for a foal. I thought the mare would foal long before now, but NO, it has to be on HER terms. Hmph! She’s obviously bred as I’ve seen/felt the foal and her belly keeps shifting sides.
The problem is, she’s been diagnosed with endometriosis, and I’ve read up on it and talked to different people, and the concurring opinion is that the best thing to keep the endo manageable is to keep her bred. No problem… a friend is “loaning†a stallion to me once she foals, so I can rebreed her. Herein lies the problem. I have to leave for school in 3 1/2 weeks, and as nothing gets done regarding the horses unless I do it or have a big hand in helping, nothing gets done. I won’t be breeding her on the foal heat, so she’d have to foal NOW (don’t see that happening… maybe in a week), and I could maybe hand breed her once. I could just stick ‘em out in the pasture together, but besides that being unsafe for the foal, I have an INTENSE dislike for the guesswork regarding when the foal’s coming that comes with pasture breeding. Would it cause havoc with the endo if I waited a few months after she foals to pasture breed? Then the foal could be weaned first…
I will graduate in March, and it looks like l be coming back home for a while. As it’s getting so late in the breeding season, I’m thinking of waiting until March to rebreed her, provided I still have access to a stallion. But will leaving her open for approx. 7-8 months cause problems with her endometriosis?
I cannot afford to send her out to be rebred, or that’s what I’d do.
Thanks for any help or opinions or advice you can gilve me!
Kari