RC: tying up and heat cycles

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Suzanne,
You might have her checks for cysts. I don't know if it can aggrevate tying 
up, but since it involves hormones it might. Can also cause extended heat 
cycles.
Nancy Mitts


>From: Suzanne Mounts <mountss@usfca.edu>
>To: ridecamp@endurance.net
>Subject: RC:  tying up and heat cycles
>Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:14:15 -0800
>
>My mare tied up last Thursday 1/6.  She was treated by the vet and had
>blood work done (showed expected high enzyme levels).  I also had her
>selenium levels tested; results indicated selenium level was completely
>normal (she has been getting selenium-E supplements since she tied up two
>years ago).  There was no obvious explanation for her tie-up this time--she
>had been ridden regularly, was getting her SeE supplement, etc.  The only
>thing that is unusual is the visiting gelding.
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>A friend's gelding who is convalescing from some undiagnosed lameness moved
>into the barn in late in December.  Natty and I were away over the new
>year's weekend.  Shortly after we got back (1/3 or 1/4) she came into heat.
>  As I mentioned, she tied up on 1/6.  She is *still* in heat.  This is odd
>for at least a couple of reasons.  First, it is the wrong time of year for
>her to be in heat.  And, second, her cycles generally do not last more than
>about 3
>days.  Also, her heat cycles are generally pretty tame--lots of peeing, but
>not much else.  This heat cycle has now lasted ten days or more, and has
>involved much more squealing, etc.
>
>Any comments on a possible connection between her tying up and her great
>passion for the visitor (she never acts this way about my gelding that she
>lives with all the time)?
>
>Suzanne Mounts and Natty (but Mom, don't you agree he's adorable???????)
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