Spaying a mare

[Gestalt]

Anyone spay a mare? What was the reason? I know of only one, a molly mule and she was worse after the surgery.

[FancyASB]

My daughters Hackney pony. Her little body kept telling her she was in foal and ready to go into labor. She would bag up, drip milk, etc. The Vet contacted UC Davis Vet school and they sent experimental drugs but to no avail. For some unknown reason her hormones were totally out of wack. The spay procedure was quite unremarkable and she went on to live to be 27. She had no problems and my daughter showed her for many years. As I remember she was around 12 at the time, had one foal when she was 10.

[Gestalt]

Thanks, my friend is thinking about it. Her mare has terrible heat cycles and the local vet has put my friend in touch with another vet that has had good results. It's just so uncommon.

[Across Sicily]

A mare I had a few years ago was spayed. She developed ovarian cancer (I think, it's a bit hazy) and ended up having to be spayed.

I didn't own her prior to her spaying, but I guess she went from being very quiet, docile and superwilling under saddle to hot, fiery, and more than a little crazy. When I got her she was on the crazy end of things. I sold her about 2 years later; 6 months after the sale, she flipped herself over on concrete (had a bit of a rearing problem), hit her head, and died. Very sad :(

Don't know if the kookoo and hotness came from the spaying or if she just became that way. I believe she was 5 when spayed, and I got her around age 7.

[equineartworks]

My little Firefly started her first heat cycle (that we know of...she hasn't since she got here in August) and all I can say is that I muttered "Why can't you be a cat" more than once this weekend.

She's not witchy...FAR from it. I think we have another Princess 'Ho in the making. :lol:

Poor little Rye. :eek:

[BTABBY]

My mare was spayed Sept. 25/09. It was done due to persistent/retained follicles. She has not shown any pain since, and the PMS attitude is slowly disappearing.

[mjrtango93]

I tried a horse to buy that had been spayed. Trixie was around 11 when I tried her and had the surgery a couple years earlier. Apparently she had a normal heat cycle earlier in life until she foaled when she was 5. After that each cycle (which was more frequent) she would retain the follicle and would cause her so much dis-comfort she would colic. She apparently was pretty darn moody in between which was a new behavior. They tried drug therapy but to no avail and she was spayed. They said it was an easy procedure and she was right as rain when all was said and done. Actually quite liked her but was just too tall to make it work.