How would you handle this situation?
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:11 pm
I'll try to make this as short as possible, so thanks in advance for reading!
Back in November I acquired a mare. Before I got her I had the Vet confirm pregnancy with a rectal exam. She felt the foal "hit her hand" during the exam. It was short and sweet as the mare was not happy. The only reason I got her was because she was supposed to be in foal. Best guess is that she would foal out in the march/april time frame (mare's history was unknown)
Vet is a long time boarder with me, I have known her for over 20 years.
Over the winter, the mare seemed to be getting more round but not as round as I would have liked. I mentioned this to the vet several times. I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech. OK. I mentioned that she seemed like she was in season by the way she behaved around the boys. Again, I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech. I mentioned that I could not feel any movement in the mare's belly and again, I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech.
I had been bugging vet to do another exam since the middle of February. Vet would not sedate the mare so kept putting off the exam. (mare did not take kindly to the intrusion) Vet suggested we take her to the clinic where they have stocks for the exam. Circumstances would not allow that to happen. Three weeks ago I asked if she could perform a trans abdominal ultrasound. Why she never suggested that test I'll never know. We finally got to it last week and guess what, no foal!
The mare was too far along to have absorbed the fetus and there was no physical signs of an abortion.
Vet apologized for there not being a foal and stated how much she hates being wrong.
Later that night I got a call from her. She said her boss had a case where they found an aborted foal in a run in shed in the brood mare field. They had to do ultrasounds on all the mares to figure out which one had aborted because all the mares were stitched up and none of them showed any signs of abortion.
She suggested I do a walk in the field to look for an aborted fetus. WTH.
It seems to me they are trying to CYA for the wrong initial diagnosis.
Now I have a mare and no baby.
I don't know how to address this with the vet. This whole proposition has cost me a bit of money.
Any suggestions??
Back in November I acquired a mare. Before I got her I had the Vet confirm pregnancy with a rectal exam. She felt the foal "hit her hand" during the exam. It was short and sweet as the mare was not happy. The only reason I got her was because she was supposed to be in foal. Best guess is that she would foal out in the march/april time frame (mare's history was unknown)
Vet is a long time boarder with me, I have known her for over 20 years.
Over the winter, the mare seemed to be getting more round but not as round as I would have liked. I mentioned this to the vet several times. I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech. OK. I mentioned that she seemed like she was in season by the way she behaved around the boys. Again, I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech. I mentioned that I could not feel any movement in the mare's belly and again, I got the maiden mare bla bla bla speech.
I had been bugging vet to do another exam since the middle of February. Vet would not sedate the mare so kept putting off the exam. (mare did not take kindly to the intrusion) Vet suggested we take her to the clinic where they have stocks for the exam. Circumstances would not allow that to happen. Three weeks ago I asked if she could perform a trans abdominal ultrasound. Why she never suggested that test I'll never know. We finally got to it last week and guess what, no foal!
The mare was too far along to have absorbed the fetus and there was no physical signs of an abortion.
Vet apologized for there not being a foal and stated how much she hates being wrong.
Later that night I got a call from her. She said her boss had a case where they found an aborted foal in a run in shed in the brood mare field. They had to do ultrasounds on all the mares to figure out which one had aborted because all the mares were stitched up and none of them showed any signs of abortion.
She suggested I do a walk in the field to look for an aborted fetus. WTH.
It seems to me they are trying to CYA for the wrong initial diagnosis.
Now I have a mare and no baby.
I don't know how to address this with the vet. This whole proposition has cost me a bit of money.
Any suggestions??