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[00:00:00]She holds out, and then she had a hemorrhagic follicle.

[00:00:03]So, we're basically giving it one more try, and if it don't work, we're too [music] late.

[00:00:08]>> You know what? I'm going to try to do her without sedation.

[00:00:11]We We have mutual >> You like her? She's good?

[00:00:14]>> Yeah, the two paints I like.

[00:00:19]They're easy to catch. They get with the program.

[00:00:24]>> So, we're doing a couple of mares today that we're trying to breed for their own babies. So, Blondie and Ginger, they've both kind of had their own issues. So, Blondie, she just like waits really long to ovulate. And so, we bred her this past time when we thought it was like good timing. No, we didn't even breed her because she didn't It was hemorrhagic.

[00:00:44]>> Yeah, we just watched her for about three >> So, hemorrhagic follicle means that it bled out. So, like a fol- a follicle's like fluid-filled. And so, instead of ovulating, it just like dissipated by like leaking and anyway, [music] it didn't work. So, basically, we just lost the whole cycle. And now, we have to try again. Which, she is the one that we did an oviduct flush on, um which is where they go clean up their I mean, you basically do a lavage on the ovaries, correct?

[00:01:09]>> Yeah, deep a deep uterine uh lavage with product called misoprostol.

[00:01:14]>> And so, >> uterine tubal contraction, and it'll shoot out a plug if it's plugged up.

[00:01:20]>> And so, we tried to do that with her to see if that was an issue for her just cuz we kind of had like a tip-off from a previous Look at all the sunscreen. From the previous breeders of her. Um and so, we I purchased her to be a recipient mare, and had that been the case, that's fine cuz we don't need her own egg.

[00:01:37]Like, we just needed her ovulate. Um which she does. And so, this past time, it would have worked out. It just it was just a hemorrhagic, which just happens sometimes.

[00:01:47]And next, we are checking mares to see who's ready to breed because we have two new ones, Melody and Kimberly. So, I didn't plan on these two mares coming to the property. I had purchased them originally to put embryos into them and sell them bred, but with the fact that Maggie coliced and is no longer in the running to be a recent mare for me, and because we we re-homed Willow after she ate about six embryos. Again, she's with my friend Shayna. She's perfectly fine.

[00:02:15]Um they are now residents of Running Springs, and they're here to be bred with my babies. So, we are checking them today for the first time, see if they're cycling, and if they are, we'll go ahead and track their ovulation and put in some embryos, and hopefully they take.

[00:02:38]>> She's in heat.

[00:02:38]>> Just seeing where she's at. She's in heat?

[00:02:40]>> Mhm.

[00:02:44]>> Good Melody. So, Melody >> one of the two.

[00:02:47]>> either just came out of heat or is in heat.

[00:02:51]Do you see a CL?

[00:02:51]>> CL, yeah.

[00:02:53]>> So, we'd probably short cycle her then, but since you don't know exactly when she ovulated.

[00:02:58]Cuz she's she's receiving a >> I need to see the last ovary.

[00:03:02]>> So, she's a CL, which is a corpus luteum on the right. He's going to look at her left ovary. Because she is having a frozen embryo put into her, we need to know when she ovulated to time up and uh like you know, doing an embryo transfer because that baby is 6 days old. So, we preferably do it when they are 4 days post ovulation.

[00:03:22]>> Do you have a growth plate here? This is the normal side. See that? You see you have a growth plate here, too. It just looks like there's more of a >> going on.

[00:03:31]>> Yeah.

[00:03:32]And it looks more separated. So, what it looks like to me is you got like a Salter-Harris type fracture.

[00:03:38]Which is a fracture of the growth plate.

[00:03:40]So, this is the normal side zoomed in.

[00:03:45]See, you have a margin that's smooth, but you still have some lucency through it. This you have a lot more gas opacity through these fascial planes which indicate some swelling and inflammation.

[00:03:56]You know, I don't like the separation you have here versus this one.

[00:04:06]So, I I believe you have a salter Harris type fracture.

[00:04:10]>> So, what [music] needs to be done for that?

[00:04:12]>> Rest.

[00:04:14]Mhm.

[00:04:14]>> And you don't think there's [music] any floating debris that needs to come out?

[00:04:18]>> Not that I see.

[00:04:19]That's it. Three different angles.

[00:04:21]>> Looks more like a type one.

[00:04:23]>> If they're >> Type two. Type one.

[00:04:25]>> So, it's actually the top area that you kind of see in the top of the little more separate here.

[00:04:28]>> Yeah. Now, there is a little spot right here that we're going to have to watch.

[00:04:33]But, I wouldn't go I wouldn't start digging [music] surgically on this.

[00:04:41]Yeah, exactly.

[00:04:44]They attach here and they go all the way back to the back to the femur.

[00:04:47]>> Okay.

[00:04:47]>> And they are massive muscles and they attach to this bone and you have a little soft tissue that pulls away from it. You you it bounds up like a rubber band.

[00:04:56]>> [music] >> Okay.

[00:04:56]>> So, it's really tall and once it pulls away, it kind of bounce.

[00:05:00]>> Is that something that like stall rest heals?

[00:05:02]>> Yeah.

[00:05:02]>> Okay.

[00:05:03]>> It'll reattach.

[00:05:04]See how nothing is attached to this?

[00:05:07]This is your ball that's moving around.

[00:05:09]>> Okay.

[00:05:10]>> And black is just dead space.

[00:05:11]>> Got it.

[00:05:12]>> A little bit of fluid.

[00:05:14]>> So, the ball [snorts] is soft tissue.

[00:05:16]>> Mhm.

[00:05:18]>> Torn ligament, is that just going to be like lasering, stall rest? Would icing help?

[00:05:24]>> Um yeah. Well, I don't think I I I would be minimal as far as icing and anti-inflammatories cuz there's not a lot of swelling there.

[00:05:31]>> Okay.

[00:05:32]>> I I don't want to give her like evasive behavior. You know, these young horses, if you start messing with them too much, you're making them mad and they stay that way for the rest of their life.

[00:05:40]>> Ginger, cool.

[00:05:41]>> Yes.

[00:05:41]>> So, lasering, um massage in the area around it but not bothering the area.

[00:05:49]>> Okay.

[00:05:51]And then how long would you think this type of like stall rest like she'd need to be on? Cuz I can once we get this >> 45 days.

[00:05:59]>> Month and a half, okay.

[00:06:00]>> Yeah.

[00:06:01]>> And then re-evaluate before we >> Yeah, and start hand walking her.

[00:06:05]>> It's a pulled ligament?

[00:06:06]>> Mhm.

[00:06:07]>> Okay.

[00:06:07]>> Or a torn.

[00:06:08]>> Torn.

[00:06:08]>> Sorry.