Identifying and Managing High-Risk Pregnancies in Horses
Lucile Vigouroux
April 8, 2023
With proper care, mares with high-risk pregnancies can deliver healthy foals safely.
With proper care, mares with high-risk pregnancies can deliver healthy foals safely.
This poorly understood disease, also known as placental infarction, results in abortion in many cases.
Although uncommon in North American horses, monitor pregnant mares to avoid abortion and stillbirth due to toxicant exposure.
The final 100 days of gestation bring their own unique developments, changes, and challenges. Get tips to help your mare’s third trimester run smoothly.
Dr. Lutz Goehring weighs in on what researchers have learned about equine herpesvirus-1, how it spreads, and how to prevent infection.
Fescue toxicosis can cause pregnancy losses and reduced reproductive efficiency in mares. Learn more in this visual guide! Sponsored by Dechra Veterinary Products.
Learn from Dr. Jennifer Janes, part of the University of Kentucky’s CSI team for horse diseases, conditions, and poisonings.
Strep zoo are responsible for a variety of diseases and issues in horses, including pneumonia, abortions, and upper respiratory, wound, testicular, and neonatal infections.
Four of 10 exposed unvaccinated mares aborted their foals.
A week prior to the abortions, two horses on the same farm developed clinical signs consistent with the neurologic form of EHV-1. These horses were euthanized and no further diagnostic testing was performed, OMAFRA said.
It’s critical that owners and breeding farms send aborted foals to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory, even if the cause of abortion appears obvious. Here’s why.
The first step toward preventing pregnancy loss in horses is understanding why it happens in the first place.
Equine abortion remains a common issue, and both infectious and noninfectious causes are frequently responsible.
RESPE—the French epidemiological network for equine diseases—works main missions is to monitor equine diseases in France and throughout Europe and to alert the horse industry when a contagious equine disease outbreak is confirmed.
When veterinarians detected pregnancy loss in horses early enough for mares to be rebred, 57.3% delivered a live foal the following spring. Of those, mares 3 to 8 years old had a 73% live-foaling rate.
Equine herpesvirus-1, or EHV-1, infection can result in late-term abortion in pregnant mares.
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