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Topic: Can anyone answer this?
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AnnaBelle02
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posted March 22, 2004 06:48 PM
If you don't have first hand experience with pregnant horses - just give me your oppinion on the situation as if she weren't pregnant, any suggestions would be so helpful and ever appreciated ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Ok currently I am away at school but I will be going home for the summer in about 4 weeks (which will be during my mare's 8 month of pregnancy). Over the winter months there wasn't much that could be done with her because of the snow and poor ground conditions. But when I retrun home the ground should soon be ready to work on.
So my question is after aprox. 5 months of rest (well I've been on her the couple times I've been home and trotted up and down the drive way - when its been clear enough) is it ok to start working her again even if she is pregnant (I know its good to work a pregnant mare I just was wondering after the winter rest if it was still ok). I would like to throw the surcingle on her and do some lunging with side reins and some ground driving prior to her giving birth (nothing too intense).
What is your oppinions on this? I'm a first time 'grandmother' so I'm a little leary about doing things with her but I don't want to see her get over weight on the grass thats going to start growing.
What kinds of things should I do with her, how often and for how long at a time?
[ March 23, 2004, 06:46 AM: Message edited by: AnnaBelle02 ]
Posts: 745 | From: Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 2003
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CJ
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posted March 23, 2004 10:49 AM
We used to have to ride seriously pregnant mare's in college, and it never caused a crisis. Personally I don't agree w/ making mare 10 mos pregnant do reining patterns... but some light hacking shouldn't hurt. I've heard that a fit mare will have an easier time delivering than one that's out of shape/ flabby. Makes sense. So I would vote for a little light work, and don't push her. "I've had geldings, what do I know?" LOL!
Posts: 662 | From: NJ | Registered: Mar 2004
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Lou3
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posted March 23, 2004 11:20 AM
CJs right - light work to keep her muscles toned is very good for pregnant mares. It cant do them too much harm to be worked hard because my friend didnt know her mare was in foal and was jumping her round 4ft showjumping courses until two weeks before the foal was born. I wouldnt recommend more than a bt of trailriding and some light schooling though.
Lou
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KatesFox
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posted March 23, 2004 12:37 PM
I think that's fine, Last week, I woman had only had her horse for 3months, The instructor was JUMPING the mare and they had no clue she was pregnant. 30min. later the owner got a call for her to come to the barn. The mare had foaled...
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HorseCrazy1981
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posted March 23, 2004 02:04 PM
How can you not know that a horse is pregnant??? There are so many signs. Anyway, I rode my mustang mare until about a month before her delivery. We did this because our vet said you should never put any undue stress on a pregnant horse, that would cause her to abort the foal. Had that happen before too ![[Frown]](frown.gif) . My half-arab mare aborted her foal 8 months into pregnancy. The vet said it probably would have lived if she had taken care of it because its lungs would have been developed. We bought her 2 months before that and she was still extremely nervous around people and nervous about her surroundings. She got way to stressed out. By the time we found the foal, he was already dead.
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Posts: 908 | From: Mississippi | Registered: Feb 2004
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Abbie22057
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posted March 26, 2004 06:39 AM
Some mares don't show signs as much as others do. Also, if you're not looking for or expecting it, you can easily miss it.
I would stick to walking and trotting, nothing to difficult, just to stretch her legs and keep her halfway in shape.
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Posts: 371 | From: GR, Michigan | Registered: Dec 2003
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Horse&Pony luver
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posted March 28, 2004 11:11 AM
I dont see any problem with that. It will be good for her to be in shape for when the foal comes, it will make her birthing easier.
I can see someone missing one foal but i bought one of my mares from a guy whos mare had twins (my mares a twin) and he completly missed it. Didnt even know the mare was pregnant. How do you miss a mare that is twice her normal size and not think that she might be pregnant?! lol..i think the guy needs new eyes!
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