We made an ultra sound appointment with the vet 21 days after Star's last day of breeding. Star was a good girl and loaded into the trailer and we were off. I led her into the stocks and she was almost in when she decided she didn't like the big, black contraption! We opened the side of the stocks and she walked in that way like a good girl. The vet came around and "got to work".
Once he had her uterus on the ultrasound screen, I came over for a look. He said, "Yup, she's about 13 days pregnant." We told him that wouldn't be possible. So he looked around and said that we have a couple possible situations: 1. She's not pregnant and has a cyst. 2. She's pregnant and the fetus is under developed. If we have situation #2, Star could either abort the fetus herself, the fetus could be absorbed or we could pump Star with hormones for the first 100 days of her pregnancy and hope it helps the foal. NOT the news we were looking for.
We decided to wait and see if she came back into heat since her next cycle would've been in the next 3 - 5 days. We kept an eye on her but had a busy weekend so we weren't able to determine if she came into heat.
We made another appointment with the vet a week later to see if the thing we saw had grown. If it hadn't grown, then it was a cyst. If it had grown, obviously it was a foal and then we would have to make a decision.
I wasn't able to go to the vet appointment because of work so hubby took Star for me. I really wanted to go so I made him promise to call before any decisions were made.
He called when the appointment was over because it was determined that Star had a cyst. The vet said to try breeding her again because he's seen mares with more and larger cysts get pregnant and there's no reason she didn't get pregnant. So there you have it. We will try again...this weekend.
It's getting REALLY late to breed her but I just have to have a foal out of Star before it's too late. I got a picture sent to me of one of Star's foals (he's the same age as Zoe) and he's beautiful and extremely talented! The people that own him said he is their dream horse and don't think they will ever own another horse like him in their lifetime! They pretty much love him. Which fuels my fire to get another good foal out of Star and reiterates why I want something out of her to keep.
I have more news, but that will have to wait for another post!
Until next time!
Quote for the day:
"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
-Josh Billings
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