| Title: | Equine Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151 |
| Moderator: | MTADMS::COBURN IO |
| Created: | Tue Feb 11 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2080 |
| Total number of notes: | 22383 |
We are having a problem with one of our broodmares - has anyone
out there ever experienced this or something similar??? What was
the outcome??
The mare is a 6 year old TB who has had two foals - when we took
her to be bred, the vet palpated her and said that she had incredibly
poor 'uterine tone' and he was sure she would not culture clean.
She did culture clean however, and but they are still discouraging
us from breeding her because of the uterine tone. Is there anything
we can do to improve it (the farm vet wasn't very helpful)?? Since
I did not own her during the previous pregnancies, I don't know
if she had a trauma during foaling, etc, but it seems like a shame
to just give up without trying, particularly since she is a very
nice mare.
The mare is in very good physical condition otherwise. Anyone have
any suggestions??
Thanks,
Claire
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| 97.1 | PLANET::NICKERSON | Bob Nickerson DTN 282-1663 :^) | Tue Jun 02 1987 16:16 | 11 | |
Sounds to me like you are getting the run-around. I would begin
to suspect the opinion of any vet who would speculate on the success
of a culture after only performing a palpation. There are some
new (young and inexperienced) vets who like to perform Caslicks
Procedures as a matter of course but more experienced vets will
normally wait for a series of cultures before prescribing it. I
would push back hard on the stallion owner and if they wouldn't
cooperate, I'd find another stallion.
Bob
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| 97.2 | TB's ====fun to breed? | USWAV1::GREYNOLDS | PAINTS-SPORTS MODEL OF HORSES | Tue Jun 02 1987 16:42 | 15 |
We once had a TB mare that did in fact have extremely bad tone of the
uterus,and were sucessful in getting her in foal.She was prone to
uterine infections,as my vet stated because,TB'safter having one
or two foals are prone to getting a tipped vulva,in that when they
enter into heat,the opening to the uterus opens naturally,she would
take a dump-an the potential for fecal matter to drop inside was
evident w/cultures i.e. ecoli,beta-hemolitic staph etc.We got around
that with suturing the vulva after we got her bred and cutting her
just before foaling.Since you got a good culture I would have the
vet check the walls of the uterus for evidence of scaring possible
from a previous foaling.If that checks clean-then I wouldn't
hesitate and breed the mare.Hope that helps some and if I can further
explain anything call me at dtn 895-5425
Gary Reynolds
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| 97.3 | Thanks-will keep you posted! | NEWVAX::DANTONIO | Fri Jun 05 1987 20:03 | 9 | |
Thanks for the information - I've gotten another vet involved, and
will keep you posted. Right now she's got good follicles coming
along, but doesn't seem to be coming into heat as they would expect.
The new vet said that when she was ready to ovulate, he would manually
open the cervix (ouch!?!) and breed her...
thanks again - and wish us luck!
Claire
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