Re: RideCamp: Pregnant mare: Put up or Put out?

["Mary Burgess" <mburgess@theglobal.net>]

Wow Kati,
	I'm not a vet, and I'm only a lowly PhD, and I've only been raising Arabs
for 15 years, but I have NEVER stall-bound my mares.  In fact, I ride my
mares constantly, they all have endurance careers, and are only retired
from HEAVY exercise, when their body-forms dictate.  When my mares begin to
bag up seriously, I begin to confine them to their stalls at night, but I
think they REQUIRE exercise during the day and are smart enough to know HOW
MUCH they need.  If your mare has been active before her pregnancy, my
opinion is that you will drive her nuts with months of being stall bound1
Mary

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> From: Katnmaj@aol.com
> To: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RideCamp:  Pregnant mare: Put up or Put out?
> Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 6:19 PM
> 
> Okay all you brood mare experts, I have a good question for you all...
> 
> I have a mare who is due at the end of March. At my vet's request, she is
now
> stall bound. He says it is a good idea to keep them up one month before
they
> are due so they can "stock up" and stay off fescue, etc.. Here's my
problem
> though. It is a brand new 12 x 24 stall and boy is it dusty. All she does
is
> pace when my gelding is out in the pasture. I spray down the stall every
day
> to try to keep the dust down (doesn't seem to help much) and walk her
every
> day, but she must be soooo miserable!! Can I let her rip loose around the
> pasture every once in a while? I do have a fescue pasture but there is
nothing
> there, really, since it is winter.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated-
> Thanks, 
> Kati & April Moon
> 
> 
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