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Because mares have such long pregnancies, often lasting more than 11 months, they give birth later each calendar year if they’re rebred a month or more after foaling. Eventually they’ll have to stay empty a season to catch up. But breeding on the foal heat estrus occurring within 20 days after foaling can keep mares on a regular annual foaling cycle, said Patrick McCue, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACT, professor and equine reproduction specialist at Colorado State University.
However, mares are less likely to conceive on foal heat than subsequent heats, and they’re more likely to lose the pregnancy, said McCue, who spoke during the 2020 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held virtually. So breeders and practitioners should make informed decisions based on the mare, her reproductive health, and her foaling history when deciding whether to breed on a foal heat.
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As veterinarians find empirical success treating horses’ soft tissue injuries with complementary approaches, the common refrain heard is, “Great now show us the science,” requesting peer-reviewed research to validate the modality’s use. A research group based in Germany and Belgium did just that when they recently tested high-powered laser therapy in a standardized control study and found it significantly improved lesion healing in the suspensory ligament branch, a common cause of lameness in equine athletes.
“A lot of therapy modalities are being used before they’re actually tested in a standardized control study,” said Mathilde Pluim, DVM, MSc, an equine veterinarian at Tierklinik Lüsche, an equine hospital in Bakum, Germany, who performed the trial along with Prof. Catherine Delesalle’s Research Group of Comparative Physiology at Ghent University, in Belgium. She presented the results on the team’s behalf at the 2020 American Association of Equin