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fuzzy
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Well, we've got a nice healthy, out-of-shape mare with an empty uterus that is in prime condition for a fresh start. All that big, fat udder was just a fake. So now I have the fun of getting her bred again, and also working through some fancy spooking and bucking fits for the next week or so. Time off does my mare no good at all, and she's have over two months.
I'm just all the madder now at the vet that did the breeding and the 15 day ultra-sound for refusing to do another one sometime in the 30 to 45 day range (probably when she slipped) and for blowing me off twice in the last month. She could have been rebred last year, or at the very least, be back in foal by now. Needless to say, that vet will never get another dollar from me, nor will I stick up for him (as I have in the past - he has done some good work for me here and there).
At least we didn't have a dead one in there gumming up the works, and potentially ending her breedability, but I'm still pissed. Why that guy bothers to have the vet's oath hanging on his wall, I can't guess.
The good news is, the vet who came out yesterday evening - actually offered to come by on a Sat evening, when I had anticipated changing my schedule to haul to her next week - will be working with me and a local AI tech (and hopefully Jennifer O., of course) to get her bed back ASAP.
Thanks so much for the crossed fingers and well-wishes. I'll bank them for the next try . . . . 
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Joy
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What a disappointment! I find it unfathomable that a vet would refuse to ultrasound at 45 or 60 days. It's obvious the vet doesn't want to do repro. 
But it's early times for this year, and now that you have a decent vet, perhaps you'll have a May baby next year. BTW, Vanda Werner used to swear by training horses when they were in foal. She said they were much easier then, so maybe your mare will cooperate on both counts. 
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Thanks, but I'm in Indiana. And I did talk today to the AI tech that the conscientious vet recommended. He's got all the equipment, lots of experience, and a girlfriend who's a lab tech to do the blood draws to check progesterone and all that jazz. In a way, I'm surpirsed I wasn't aware of him before, but then they work mainly with high-dollar QH that are bred and used for cutting and roping. Not exactly my bag, though cutting IS fun. I couldn't handle a rope to save my life, let alone catch a cow with it! I knew the the barn was there, and that it used to be a boarding barn, but that's it. And he's still within 20 miles. Pending a reply to my e-mail to Jennifer, I'm hoping my mare can be inseminated next week.
BTW, Joy, the previous vet - the one who wouldn't ultra-sound again after the 15 day has a lovely clinic, and poses as a repro expert. At this point, "poses" being the key word in my book.
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fuzzy
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Joy, that's where being a farrier has it's advantages.  We don't just deal in horse shoes. We also deal in information - horses for sale, horses wanted, the good, bad, and ugly on a variety of subjects. I try not to get involved in the bad or the ugly, ( I don't think that helps my business much) but if asked a straight question about trainers, farriers, vets, boarding barns, I will give a straight answer.
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Where are you located? I thought you were in Illinois...Wisconsin Equine is great to deal with~ they have a specialty vet on staff especially for reproduction.