Re: RC: ultra sounds

[Rhonda K Levinson <levinson1@juno.com>]

My experience has been that ultra sounds are only as good as the person
reading them.  I had a mare AI bred, sonogramed, pronounced in foal, and
she was back in heat the next cycle.  I advised the vet and was told the
mare was definitely in foal and I must be mistaken.  Oh, hmmm, I guess
she's just chasing the studdy gelding, squatting, etc., for the sake of
being neighborly.  [Only the second mare I'd ever had bred; what did I
know?]  Same deal with the next check.  Oddly enough, at the 90 day
check, vet says the mare has slipped the foal.  Turns out that only two
mares that vet was involved with that year had foals -- in spite of the
fact that all of the mare had been checked in foal.  All of the mares
slipped between the 60 and 90 day checks too.  Hmmm.  Vet says our
facilities must not be sanitary and we're passing some virus between the
barns when we go visiting.  So, go find a vet with EXPERIENCE in reading
sonograms/ultra sounds.  The vet I referred to was great with legs and
lameness problems, just cannot handle the reproductive stuff.

Rhonda


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