Help, horse won't stay up! Please Help!?

Question

My mare Sanchase won't stay up for more then two minutes. She will stay up, but she gets wobbly and lays down. She's only been pregnant once and the baby died because it didn't come out right, so she's not giving birth. I told the vet but she said the horse is fine. She gave her a cast but Sanchase still does it. Once she had a bad racing accident, she was in the lead and whammed into the side bars. Broke one leg and sprained the other, her old owner almost put her down but didn't. After she made a great recovery and I bought her after my old horses died. Sanchase is my only baby! Will she be okay?

Answer 1

When a horse goes down it is unnatural. More so when they will not get up. Call another vet. the one you have presently is not interested in your problem. Get help immediately or you will lose than animal

You should know better than to waste time asking for advice when you shoudl go to a vet who can attend to the horse.

Get going and get another vet before that horse dies.

Answer 2

why did the vet say the mare was doing this?

Answer 3

She may be having an allergic reaction to whatever the vet gave her, or to something else in her environment that she ate. Or she may have a vaginal or uterine infection. Call the vet immediately and make sure that it's a very good vet. The vets you've spoke of seem like frauds who have no knowledge of horses to me. And if your vet told you that by pulling your mare away from the stallion that was mounting her caused her to become pregnant and lose her foal-he's totally brainless and has no idea which end of the horse eats(and presumably any other animal). There is no way that pulling Sanchase away from the stallion could result in her becoming pregnant and then losing the foal (or was she pregnant before the suspected matin?). If you did pull her away, then he wasn't in the process of mating with her right then. If she had been pregnant to another stallion before he got to her, then she wouldn't have been receptive to this stallion, so no mating would have happened.

As for this under spaying, I've never heard of it, but there's no way I'd do something like that to my mare. I also don't see how sticking something up your mare could possibly improve her health and the health of any future foals. And you should tell the stallion owner to castrate his stallion if he can't keep him in his own yard. And what's wrong with these stupid vets telling you to spay her? That's a really major operation for a mare- it includes invasive surgery, whereas gelding a horse doesn't involve cutting them open. Castrate the stallions not the mares. Spaying your mare could result in an infection which could kill her or she might die on the operating table anyway during the surgery. Too risky and definately not necessary. My guess is that the vets want to do this to get more money from you.

No, more sperm will not cause a foal to grow any quicker or stronger or bigger than what nature intended it to. Your vet clearly has no idea which end of the horse eats! And I do doubt that your mare was throwing a temper tantrum. My Arabian ponies (I've had two) were and are very good at throwing temper tantrums. It involves them shaking their heads and glaring at me, trying to nip, and stomping their hooves. Not a pretty sight. My mare threw a temper tantrum because I refused to share my choclate bar with her, so she had a tantrum, when that didn't work, she turned around and lightly tapped my leg with her hoof (and got a smack across the rump for her troubles, and still no chocolate). There's something wrong with your horse, and it's not a temper tantrum.

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Answer 5

hi I'm kelsey r bauch.I just have one question have's he only been in one plase?if so it is the floor if not it'sth

Answer 6

A horse should be able to stand for long periods of time (are you serious that she lays down after a matter of minutes???)

She has had some serious injuries in her lifetime too....worth getting a full vet exam (or a second opinion if she's already been looked at).

Is she aged?  and how long has she been doing this??? is she showing any symptoms of pain?

Sorry - I've asked more questions than given answers...but don't have much to go off!

Answer 7

This mare is clearly suffering from a bad case of colic, or a closely related condition, and you need to get off the computer, get your A** down to the barn, and walk her until another, and hopefully, competent vet shows up !!! If you don't, this mare is almost certainly going to die from shock, exhaustion, and possibly a twisted or ruptured gut from all the rolling and thrashing around she's done. I can't say for certain if she's in foal or not from your description- it sounds as though she may be, and this is only adding to her already precarious situation. Why DIDN'T you get her palpated and checked right after the stud bred her? She should have been ultrasounded to check for a possible pregnancy at that point. If one had been found, you could have easily asked the vet to pinch it- thus saving yourself and your mare a LOT of agony and grief.

At any rate, you are dealing with a serious medical emergency, and you need to get moving and get some help out there, or your mare is going to DIE !!!  You are in way over your head, and I feel terrible for your mare because she is going through such pain and is not getting any help at all. I wouldn't do this to any horse I have ever owned.  Enough said.