[Love2TrailRide]

did all three of the foals live and the mom?

[Blistering Winds]

MOst of the research I've read say it is NOT good to allow, if you catch the twins first thing, to allow them to go on. You not only take a chance of losing ONE baby, but Both babies and Momma! Horses do not superovulate fora reason. Because they are not made for twins. They do not make enough milk by FAR for two babies. Mother nature says NO horses cannot have more than one baby and Mares fight us tooth and nail on superovulation for embryo transfers and such. I think the last count was 3 total eggs ovulated. But I'll check on that.

Usually twins come from when the owner pops the mare with hCg. Which causes them to ovulate within 24 hours if the follicle is big enough. If the mare happens to be growing 2, with the body getting ready to suppress one because it was smaller, but the egg ovulated anyways.

A rare few happened TOTALLY naturally. More often than not, a human had stepped in and begain to regulate the mare chemically in some way.

If the mare DOES carry twins, better have a surrogent on hand and a LARGE pocket book because the initial health bill is OMG< outrageous. IV fluids, Plasma transfer for the orphaned foal (whichever is the smaller of the two becomes automatic orphan as he needs more attnetion and becomes the new CHILD of hte OWNER, not hte mare..)

Some mares have been reported to KILL the Other twin. Ignore it completely, not allow them to suckle at all. Maternal selection I guess.....

Those people with successful twins ARE very few and far between. And they spend BOOKOO Money to keep the twin alive.

[mtroika]

My old horse Pietusza had 3 sets of twins. Two times both died and the last time one lived and the other one was a still born! Soooo sad!

I didnt own her when she lost the first 2 sets of twins but the last set I owned her and bought her 8 months prego and the owner said all was good and she wasnt having twins this time he had her checked ect... but then she did.

[julie&chico]

It is know that TB's and arabs have the highest conception rate of baring twins.
I knew botha tb and arab that had twins, the TB aborted 7 months into gestation and well I know MTROIKA's arab mare.

JC

[BestofPrincess]

yes all 4 of them survived, but the babies wherent with mom, they where getting special care 24/7
Now Im not sure what your reefering to Blistering Winds but, I do know the stallion my mare is pregnant to got a holstiner mare pregnant with triplets, they tride to pinch 2 off but they all were gone

[Blistering Winds]

Bestof Princess...it isn't the STALLION causing anything. it is all on the mare.

There are freaks of nature when the mare will ovulate more than one, but the chacnes are MUCH LESS. MOST twins, like I said, are usually caused due to OUR manipulation of the mare in some way, shape, or form.

[cassidy]

i no its possible but not overly common i think i would be worried if my mare was pregnant with twins!

[bay_blnd jmpr07]

here are the stats. 1 in 10,000 times do ALL 3 survive.

my mom looked up these stats when Fiona dropped 2 eggs. she still ended up carrying twins but they never made it. Fiona aborted at 8 months. so its also a small chance that a mare will go full term with them also.

BBJ

[BestofPrincess]

Blistering winds I never said it was the stallion I said the stallion my mare is in foal to got a mare prego with triplets, my refrence to the stallion was how my source was reliable. The mare was having alot of trouble getting pregnant at all, she had been HCGed and one of the other hormonal shots and wall-a she triple ovulates

[Blistering Winds]

Ok, just the post sounded that way. Sorry.

Since she was hCG'd, I can believe EASILY that she spit out 3 at once. Because what hCG does, it causes ANY of the follicles on the ovaries to burst if they are close to being ready. She was probably also on some GnRH hormones which are VERY VERY expensive as well.