Izadora Sold

Izadora will be traveling to North Carolina as soon as her brand new just drawn today coggins comes back. It just seems no matter how many horses we have coggins on the horse that needs a coggins, that's the coggins that just ran out. I guess that comes with dealing with so many horses. We try to schedule 9 at a time 3 times a year so we are not overwhelmed by the cost all at once.
The picture below was snapped of Zalena this morning at feeding time. She is looking so nice and rounded.

Zalena is one that will be sonagrammed today, not because we think she is in foal but perhaps Dr. Hoerr can tell us where she is in her season and what is the best way to go about getting her in foal.
The next picture was when I walked down to let the mares out back. This geese pair were at the back gate honking at Emma who followed me down.

The mares refused to come out of their paddock sure those nasty geese were going to start chasing them.
Ciera is very suspicious of them until Emma ran them off.

They finally settled down to eat, except Jenis and Ciera who were more interested in people than the grass.

Mike brought his farrier tools over and trimmed up Bow and Izadora. Bow's front feet were just a bit long. She stood wonderful for her first trim job. Izadora really didn't need trimming her front feet were just a bit chipped from running around the Middle Grove farm. Mike took the file and smoothed them out. Mike was really hoping the buyer would change her mind about Izadora. He was hoping to get a filly out of her to keep but it just wasn't meant to be as her last 2 were colts.
2:15pm: Dr. Hoerr gave us some options with Zalena. What he found with the ultrasound was she has a very tight cervix. He felt last heat on her was in March so may not have been a true heat. She is in season now with a follicle at 38, he wants her covered tomorrow, then checked in 2 days. If she is still in get her covered, if not count the day at day 16 have him out for another sonagram. At that time if she is not pregnant we will short cycle her, collect the stallion and AI her. Then we will know if it is because her cervix is too tight to allow the sperm to enter. problems, problems, problems. Although this is not unusual for an older maiden mare and we had the same problem last year with Eliza. The first time we AId her she settled in foal so hopefully we can have the same result with Zalena if she doesn't take on this season.
Ciera is not in foal but even worse, she has something very wrong on her left ovary. The ultrasound showed a big round hard mass bigger than a grapefruit. He does not think it is a tumor because her hormone level is fine. He feels she burst a blood vessel when she ovulated 3 weeks ago which caused a big hematoma. He gave her a shot and will ultrasound her again in 3 weeks. This will tell him if the mass is growing or not. If it is a tumor she will have to have surgery to remove that ovary. If it is just a hematoma hopefully the shot will help dissolve it. The vet bills this year will be adding up quickly.
After checking equine ovarian hematoma on google I'm relieved to find it is not as awful as it sounds.
An ovarian hematoma occurs when the ovulation site on the ovary fill up with blood after the follicle has ruptured (ovulated). They can initially be quite large and painful. But will reabsorb over time The speed of resolution generally depends on the original size of the hematoma. Don’t despair, the presence of a hematoma on one ovary does not mean that your mare won’t have fertile ovulations in the future. It is a good idea to have her rechecked in a few weeks, as you may be pleasantly surprised to find she is healing up well and still on the mommy track for this season!
On another note the shed was moved today to Middle Grove. Mike sent along this picture of it almost finished.

That place is going to be a camper paradise. It now has hot and cold running water, a tack room that has a loft for sleeping and is big enough to store Karin's planned purchase 4 wheeler.