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Who has had a vet be incorrect when saying "NOT IN FOAL" (and how often)

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  • #21
    That's terrible aurum.

    My vet checking for pregnancy has never missed one.
    As is our confidence, so is our capacity. ~W. Hazlitt

    Gift Hill Farm

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    • #22
      Hmmmm. After 40 plus years....at least one or two clients per year and occasionally a sneaky mare here. That adds up to a lot! (BTW I didn't vote--no choice available for my answer.)
      Anne
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        #23
        I should have put a place for that!! The results are interesting, would you could the 3x answer (3x?)
        Stephanie Smith
        www.SundownFarmVA.com

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        • #24
          I bred a small pony this year. First time nothing, second time pregnant at 14 days and not at 30 days I would be so happy if the vet missed it. She's just hanging in the field right now and I really wish she were pregnant! I'll have to keep an eye on her belly in the spring but, I won't hope for a miracle.

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          • #25
            My mare is a "NOT IN FOAL" mare! Except, that she is 7 months along now! The vet palped her in MN the end of May and said, "open". I shipped her five days to NJ. She was skinny and we started training. July I had a funny feeling that she was in foal and had her palped again- yep in foal, about three months. Now, I am hoping the breeder will sign the foals registration papers! Our bill of sale says mare and offspring of stallion, so hopefully all will go well in April.
            Karma and Drifter girl
            http://www.horsescanhelp.com
            http://www.mydriftersjourney.blogspot.com

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            • #26
              I have had 4...from 3 different vets and 3 of the 4 were on the same mare. On that mare I now ignore the vets and wait to see if she comes back into heat and put more stock in THAT with her! Apparently consensus is that this mare has a huge and quite tilted uterus which hides fetuses very well until month 2 or 3. The other mare is old and also had a very tilted uterus.
              Providence Farm
              http://providencefarmpintos.blogspot.com/

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              • #27
                Originally posted by not again View Post
                Hmmmm. After 40 plus years....at least one or two clients per year and occasionally a sneaky mare here. That adds up to a lot! (BTW I didn't vote--no choice available for my answer.)
                2 of em were mine!!
                Providence Farm
                http://providencefarmpintos.blogspot.com/

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                • #28
                  My regular vet has been right on every time so far, but the vet at the barn that I breed to the stallion has officially been wrong twice and I have heard throught the grapevine that he was wrong a third time on a mare I had leased that I thought I had given back open

                  I think sometimes it depends on experience level and how far along they are comfortable looking. My vet looks at so many pregnant mares every year and is comfortable looking at 14 days and is usually right. This other vet works in an area less populated by breeders, so he looks at a lot less pregnant mares every year and likes to wait until 18 or 20 days and has still been wrong a few times just on my mares.
                  www.facebook.com/SunsetPonies

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                  • #29
                    Not in foal... sure.

                    Here's a good story for you.

                    A few years ago I was on the fence whether I should breed my Swedish mare or borrow a friends TB to an Irish Draught that I was really impressed with.

                    Well, I opted to "swap" my Swedish mare for the TB to breed. When it came time to inseminate the TB, her follicle was too small... it just so happened that my Swedish girl was in a raging heat and had a 52mm follicle (figured what the heck, got sperm - might as well check her). As an FYI - the Irish breeder was aware that I had been on the fence and would have been happy to have me breed either mare as they we're both high quality.

                    I'm sure you can guess what I did. I had the Swedish mare bred and rechecked over the next couple of days. She hadn't ovulated, and the follicle grew to a 54mm. My vet assured me that there was NO WAY she could be be/get pregnant. (The stallion had also just recovered from a fever and this was his first collection after having "cooked his boys". I opted to give my Swedish mare to my friend to ride while I bred her TB. After short cycling her mare and getting her inseminanted, we waited for the 30 day check. On that day, I insisted that the Swedish mare get checked as well. He again promised me there was NO WAY she was prego....

                    Needless to say... 2 very health foals were born the next spring. Yes, I did pay the second stud fee as soon as learned that she was in foal.

                    How's that for a story!
                    http://www.pleasantmeadowfarm.org

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                    • #30
                      hehe my mare was also supposed to be infertile, according to the vet, she missed out all season and we had one last go - after this she was to be broken in and ridden

                      hey presto she mustn't have liked that idea, because her strangely expanding waistline told a tale on the vet-he got it wrong, yippee

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