Re: [RC] "Easy" mare <rated pg-13> - KeepsakeFarms
Hi Julienne,
I have heard of having the vet insert properly sized marbles into your mare
to trick her body into thinking it is pregnant. As a result, no
heat. I think they only last about six to ten months before coming out and
must be reinserted, but it beats chemicals! I would look into this by
asking my vet if I were you. Regumate is expensive as are most chemicals,
and I can't believe that this would be any more expensive and sounds MUCH safer
and easier to deal with.
Good Luck,
Linda Joyner and Shennandoah
glad I have a gelding ;0)
In a message dated 3/15/2005 4:17:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,
jsrha@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Hey
everyone,
I wanted to get feedback on what my options are with my
mare. With the lovely springtime weather arriving, she's gone into
full-blown heat. In past years this hasn't been a problem, she'd just hang
out by the gelding pasture with her butt pointed towards them and making it
be known that she was available, but now she's in a mixed pasture
with both geldings and mares and she has captured the attentions of
one particularly amorous suitor. He's a HUGE 17hh bay gelding and
Isabella is a small 14.2hh mare - they've been squealing at each other the
past few days and I'm afraid it may have escalated to mounting
behavior because last night I saw a bite mark on her back, swollen and
tender to the touch. Argh, we finally get nice weather and I can't
ride because of her wound!
She's an angel under saddle because she
knows she can't get away with this behavior with me, but out in pasture is
a different story. Moving her isn't an option because there is only
one other pasture that also has geldings, and stalls (don't want to stall
her).
Any suggestions/shared experiences? Don't really want to go
hard-core with Regumate, so I'm considering Moody Mare or Mare Magic as a
first alternative. I'm afraid she'll get hurt if this behavior
continues.
