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Q: I have a BARELY three year old lactating mare. She just turned three two months ago. She was accidentally pasture bred when I bought her, and at the time, she didn't look pregnant. When she was pregnant with the foal, she looked healthy - but not pregnant. She had the filly right after her third birthday. The filly is healthy enough, but her dam isn't. My mare is constantly sweaty. She could be expected to look sweaty because it's summer, but this is unhealthy! She's sorrel, but during most daytime hours, she looks bay because she's so sweaty! She looks very sickly; she doesn't weigh enough, and has rain rot very bad. I'm treating the rain rot, so that's not a big problem, but I feed her 4 pounds of oats and sweet feed in the morning, 2 pounds at noon, and 4 pounds at night. She is not gaining any weight. I've been feeding her this much for over a month and a half and still nothing. She should look at least a little better by now. The filly looks very healthy, though she's very sweaty too. I think the filly's sweatiness can be attributed to all of her baby fur which is very thick and her being very dark colored. (She's going to be black when she sheds out; right now she's a dark dun color) My other mares and my colt are not nearly as sweaty. My bay mare is sweaty around her flank, my chestnut mare is sweaty around her throatlatch, and my chestnut colt is sweaty around his flank - but my lactating sorrel mare is sweaty all over her whole body. This mare is on a regular de-worming routine, she gets lots of clean water (I change the water daily), eats plenty, so I don't understand why she's so unhealthy looking and sweaty. Do you have any ideas or cures? Should I call the vet immediately? Thanks!
-FunnyCide
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You need to bring the vet out to check her, it almost sounds like Strangles to me. But since you said it was right after she had the baby, it just may be her bodies way of dealing with post-labor. Obviously we aren't vets though and she needs to be checked out, I hope she's okay. Btw, isn't 4 lbs. of oats too much in a day?
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technically she's not supposed to eat more than eight pounds a day, but I'm feeding her ten because she's losing weight so rapidly. I know it's not strangles because she's not having problems breathing, no fever, and no nasal discharge. I'm talking to the vet on Tuesday.
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Location: Texas Age: 101 ICQ: AIM: Yahoo: MSN: gagragragra Member Since: May 3, 2005 Answers: 159 Last Update: September 22, 2006 Visitors: 14253
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