Doesn't it look like Bay has a reeeally long neck? ;~)
Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Hal just kills me. He’ll go anywhere with those old farts but won’t go anywhere with you and me. He’s giving me a complex! ;o)
Well, that link I posted was for the dog and cat size. What you’d need is the a 60ml size for foals and calves. Sorry ‘bout that! But I’d just wait and see if you need it and get it from JB. It’ll cost you twice as much that way, but then if you don’t need it you won’t be out anything.
Crap. I just spent $62 at JB’s yesterday on that cat w/ the infected ear. I didn’t know this was so complicated. The ones we had that made it (6) we just found w/their mama’s and didn’t do anything.
Hal had Daisy sonagramed Tues. and she still wasn’t bred. He said to bring her back April and he’d give her a shot and wait so many days and breed her and wait 14 days and US her again. I told Hal we needed to do that. Already paid the stud fee.
BA that does the US has 55 horses, not counting the new foals. He works full time and trains (his own) and shows along with his wife and son. He just had 2 to get impacted. Took them to KY vet and lost one that was bred to $$$$$$ stud and $2000 vet bill. The other one he did NG tube water/oil and manually cleaned her out for 2-3 x day x 13 days. He finally was so exhausted he let her out and put her on fresh rye grass and the moisture in the rye made her poop and she lived and didn’t loose her baby.
I don’t see how he does it@!@!
She could foal up to two weeks early. Most of my mares foal in the early evening, mid afternoon or very early morning (like 3am).
What I ended up having to do to Truly to get her to stick the first time was to have her infused with an antibiotic solution for 3 days in a row, then gave her a shot of leutalyse to make her ovulate and then bred her. Then I had her ultrasounded at 14 days like he said to see if she stuck. If they don't stick at that point, you repeat the next month and if they still don't stick you might want to just breed a different mare. I spent 2 breeding seasons trying to get one mare to stick and never did, so sometimes you just have to cut your losses. But hopefully that's not the case with Daisy.
He did say that the pH of some horses just didn’t mesh and you would have to change studs. We probably will it the shot doesn’t work. I know she can have them ‘cause she came with Sassy at her side and the stud is proven. He said there was nothing “anatomically” wrong with her, too. Her cycles just haven’t started back for the spring.
She was bred to him last in Oct., so it wouldn’t have been hard to tell if she had been pregnant. ‘Course, he said she could have stuck and lost it already: possible but not probable.
If it was October last year when she was bred then it may have been that she had just stopped ovulating, even though she was still willing to stand for the stud, or he may have hobbled her and she had no choice but to stand. Hopefully you’ll have better luck in April, but if you don’t then I’d definitely get JB to do the uterine infusions before I switched studs, especially if you really like the stud.
Hey - Good luck on your first day at work today!
Maybe with the time change... you’re already there?
Thanks. I wish is would be evening. We got the filly out this pm. She is eating a little better this evening. I am excited, but nervous. I’ll be glad when it’s here.
I’m glad Lucky’s legs are straightening out. Does the guy want him?
It's those kind of instincts that will keep you alive to ride another day! I think you were wise.
Becky is at her first day of work today... or orientation... I'm not sure. Wonder if she'll check in when she gets home or if her brain will be fried. ;~)
Did I mentioned that I figured out why he's been so hard to stop while we're jumping? Everybody else is riding him in a gag bit, and I've been using a French snaffle. 4 wheels, no brakes.
Doesn't it look like Bay has a reeeally long neck? ;~)
Well maybe using the french snaffle will soften him up a bit. I don’t mean to offend, but I think that a gag is overkill in the wrong hands. I don’t like them. What breed of horse is BDB?
Thanks for the link. One of ours just went barefoot...
What's interesting is that I can stop him as fast in the French snaffle as the kids can in the gag. It's just when he gets rolling after jumping 3-4 fences he gets kind of excited and above himself and it takes me 5-10 strides to get him stopped. But he used to grab the bit and bolt after every fence, he's not doing that any more. When he finally just cantered sedately away from a single rail, I patted him and praised him, jumped off, loosened his girth and put him up. I'm going to go out Friday and work him back and forth over a grid at a slow trot, and just halt him as soon as he clears the last cavaletti. Sooner or later, he's BOUND to get the message!
I think a gag is sort of overkill, but it's adjusted down to the first ring and the kids aren't allowed to hang on it. (And when I say kids I mean the teenagers, not the little ones, everybody's looking young to me these days.)
Welcome to the thread. Feel free to jump in whenever you want.
Well he sounds like a super boy who WANTS to be a good horse. :-) I hope that you have fun with him.
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