> us what it was like to have a mare bleed out after foaling and I don't
> think I would want this to happen to her (she was my first horse).
     The woman that I bought Spot from lost a very expensive Peruvian Paso 
mare from this - her fifth baby.  The vet said that she couldn't have saved 
the mare had she been there with a hundred units of blood.  The baby also 
died a few days later.  It was heartbreaking.
                                                                              
  
 BK> This is only one of many things that can go wrong 
 BK> during breeding, and the reason it took me three years 
 BK> to finally get aroudn to it. Loosing a mare to breeding 
 BK> is not that uncommon. In fact at the barn where I keep 
 BK> CJ and her baby (Tush) we had 4 mares bred the same 
 BK> year.. three died of varying causes.
     PLEASE - stop me from even THINKING of breeding Spot again!  (I mean, on 
top of the fact that I spent about $1200 last year for her to have sex nine 
times.)  Can you recall any of the causes offhand? 
                                                  
> I was told as well that sometime between the time I lost her and where
> she is now that someone taught her to drive, so I will get to enjoy her
> as well.
 BK>  
 BK> Always a nice addition.. I think driving is neat.
     Neat and FUN!  People who can't or wouldn't ride will climb into a cart 
or buggywith ya!
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