New mare, in foal... Help

I am guessing then that she is right on schedule for her due date. I am looking in the book to tell you what vaccines your mare needs. These are the names of the vaccines that she needs to be vaccinated against Skittle. This is given in a 5 way or a 7 way. One shot does it all. This is what she is vaccinated against(EEE, Influenza, PHF which stands for Potomac Horse fever, Rhino, Rotavirus A, Strangles, Tetanus, West Nile virus, and WEE. (Rabies which the vet has to administer this shot) Rhino needs to be given at 5, 7, and 9 months of gestation. I hope this helps.

Britt - I plan on riding her lightly all winter, but I'll give her a break about a month before she's due, so that she's got time to get used to me getting near here not meaning we're going riding lol...

And there isn't any Fescue here, and her hay is an alfalfa, timothy, orchard grass mix, so I don't think that'll be a problem...

Equus - She seems to be healthy, and I know my other mare was exposed to strangles at her last barn, so I might just wait till after she drops the foal and then vacinate all of them at once. As for the rabies vac, I know I've never had a vet come give a horse shots for me, and my appendix was always given his rabies shots... Maybe my vet isn't supposed to be handing them out over the counter, but I'm not going to argue about it, saves me money that way...

If she was vaccinated last spring, giving her more shots now won't hurt her will it? I hate it when the vet tells me its up to me and can't recommend anything... I knew I should have went to vet school outta highschool....

She needs a booster of the regular shots you give her 30 days before foaling to help the foal's immunity.

If you do the rhino shots, it's done at 5, 7 and 9 months. But make sure you get the one for pregnant mares, there are two different kinds. Personally I won't use the Ft Dodge one, my mares had a reaction to it and so have many other people's mares (and of course many have NOT, but since mine personally did, I won't use it again).

No it won't hurt her. She does need some of those shots. The rhino helps her to not abort the baby later in gestation. I would recommend her being vaccinated maybe not the strangles but the other shot I would definitely do.

I'll call the vet again Monday and get her her shots then, and I'm guessing its time to learn to trim feet myself too since my farrier won't return my calls...

I hate relying on other people to help me do anything, but when its something that I could learn to do myself its just that much more aggrevating...

I wished that we lived in the same town because I do all of my own trimming. I had that problem to so I learned how to do it. I had my farrier show me what I need to do to get the feet trimmed up right.

I'm really aggrevated this morning... I can't catch Sandy (my palomino) and all I wanted to do was feed her, incidentaly, Storm (the new horse) lets me walk right up to her... I could strangle Sandy's previous owners for making her so untrusting... Their feet need done and my farrier hasn't called me back, the vets in my area are worthless, I gotta go to work in 3 hours....

grr.... Sorry, I'm being whiny... I feel a little better now... Guess Sandy will get her grain when I get home from work... I have discovered if I'm even remotely angry theres no point in messing with her at all, just makes her harder to catch and me angrier... its a nasty cycle, and no way to nurture what little trust she does have...

Something that you might want to do with Sandy is when she starts trotting away from you walk after her. Don't get mad just walk like you are not interested in her. Walk behind her and eventually she will stop and come up. When she does pet her and tell how good she was to come up then let her go again and keep repeating this exercise. You will find that it gets easier to catch her in time. Cinnamon used to do that and still did but she got a lot easier in the end. I finally said good bye to her on Sat. My friends moved her off of the farm.

I just ignore her until she comes to me, doesn't always work, but a lot of the time it does... If that doesn't work, I push her to lunge around me until she's tired and begging me to let her stop, then I can catch her...
I just have to make sure the ground is dry if I go the lunging route, cause she's gets panicky at first and will fall if its not...

Well, I've found a new farrier, he's coming tomorrow morning, so we'll see if he's any good.... And I've found pics of the two studs my mare was pastured with, I'm hoping for a paint lol...