Lost a foal 36 hours after Pneumabort

[Connie P]

I am SO VERY sorry for your loss. :-(

 

[MBhorses]

my heart goes out to you. I have given the shots mares did fine and others I have given the shots they abort.

It is a very hard choice to make

you will be in our prayers.I hope your mare is okay

When my mares abort it was 3 mos and 7 mos.

 

[ohmt]

We don't vaccinate ANY of our pregnant mares for ANYTHING and we've never had any problems with mares aborting.

The only year we did was the first year where everyone was so scared over the West Nile Virus. We vaccinated all of our horses in April-pregnant mares and open mares alike...we only ended up with 4 foals the next year. That's 4 foals from about 25 mares bred! Mares didn't come into heat and we had 8 mares absorb their foals. NO MORE VACCINES FOR OUR PREGGIES!

 

[REO]

{{{{Robin}}}} You know how I feel & how sorry I am.

 

[CheyAut]

So sorry

I had heard of people (mainly on here) having mares abort and blaming the shot, but I continued to use it.

Then two years ago I had bred a riding mare to a beautiful SE Arab and was soooo excited for that foal. Pnuemabort shot, and then she aborted a filly. That was my most anticipated foal ever, I was heartbroken

I have not given the shot since. Maybe it wasn't related to the vaccine, but maybe it was. So, my personal choice is to not use it again.

And I'm re-breeding that arab cross to that arab stallion this year, praying for a healthy foal this time!