Have you or your friends ever dealt with a moody mare? Not just a regular cycling mare, but the super over-the-top moody mares. (I’ve heard them called “psycho-b#*ches”)
On today’s Horse Mysteries Solved podcast, we chat about WHY some mares are moody, and some not.
There’s so many mares regularly on raspberry leaves or chasteberry or Regumate, that it becomes hard to tell how many mares are affected. But it’s a lot.
Please take a listen if you’d like to hear:
As well as a simple fix for mares who are having difficulty getting pregnant.
Links Mentioned:
https://www.tuckerbiokinetic.com/happy
Summary:
Summary by AI:
Dr. Renee Tucker discusses the issue of “moody mares” and pregnancy problems in horses. Moody mares, characterized by excess hormones, can be dangerous and difficult to handle. Tucker explains that the excess hormones are often caused by chemicals in the uterus and ovaries, leading to thickening of these organs and further hormone production. While treatments like raspberry leaves or synthetic estrogen can help balance hormones, Tucker emphasizes the importance of addressing the root cause by removing the excess chemicals from the body, which requires time and possibly a liver cleanse. She also warns against feeding horses bagged feeds containing chemicals and pseudo-estrogenic substances like flax seed. In terms of pregnancy problems, Tucker mentions the significance of pelvic alignment, as misalignments can affect the uterus’s ability to flush out fluid and impede fertilization. Aligning the pelvis can sometimes solve fertility issues in mares.
Transcript:
Renee (00:01)
Hello, friends. This is Dr. Renee Tucker here, coming at you to talk today about moody mares and pregnancy problems. Okay, so hopefully we all know what I mean by moody mare, but just in case you haven’t seen them, think of a mare who has an excess of hormones. A lot of times they can be mareish, times a million, and in fact, can get quite unwriteable and unhandlable, and they can be dangerous. They are important to figure out what’s going on with them. Now, if you Google what to do with my moody mare, you will get some nice answers, like using raspberry leaves, which you might know as mare magic or chasteberry, or using regimate, which is synthetic estrogen. And all those seem to work sometimes on some mares. And so part of our questions today is, why does it work on some mares and not others? So hopefully we’ll get that answer for you. But what I really like to stress is not how do I handle my moody mare, but rather why is the mare moody in the first place? Yes, it is an excess of hormones, but why? And can we fix that?
Renee (01:26)
That’s always my question. And so I believe we can. So here’s the deal. Why do mares have excess hormones? Now, I am talking about the general average for solar. Generally, I think the whole world is 80/20, right? Eighty % is the general answer. And then there’s your outliers. Because I am aware that mares can get granulosis cell tumors on their ovaries. That can cause a lot of hormone problems. One time, I saw the over had to be removed because it was so big. It was as big as a bowling ball. I don’t know if we have bowling in all countries, but we’re talking a bowling ball is probably about a foot across, 12 inches. Very big. It was huge. It was incredible. I can’t believe the poor horse. In those cases, it’s a good idea to have those enormous growths removed. But for most horses, they have excess hormones for a different reason. Let me just It’s to the point. That different reason is they have chemicals in their uterus. Now, we get chemicals everywhere. Everything’s got chemicals. Talk more about that in a sec. But there are certain chemicals are just drawn to the uterus and the ovaries.
Renee (02:47)
I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but they want to stay in the uterine lining and in the walls of the uterus, which if you may or may not know, but the uterus makes hormones. So do the ovaries, they make hormones, but so does the uterus, they both do. So when these chemicals are in the ovary or uterus, or both, they cause the uterus or ovary to thicken, to enlarge. Now, if you’re a TBT student, then I am talking about excess growth, but it’s nothing to really be alarmed about. It’s just the uterus has chemicals in it, so it makes itself bigger so it can function. Unfortunately, the thicker the uterus is, the more hormones it makes. So now you have this excess of hormones. So then it does make sense to balance out the hormones in that we add the other items that I mentioned, chaseberry, raspberry leaves, et cetera, because it’s going to balance those excess hormones. But that’s not fixing the problem. That’s just balancing them out. What we want to do then is try to get rid of them. Now, the body can actually remove excess chemicals from the ovary and uterus.
Renee (04:15)
However, it takes a little bit of time, and it can’t do it well if the liver is busy. So once again, we can do a liver cleanse, believe it or not, to help the uterus and the ovaries. Because all of our liver are busy. All of our livers are ourselves, our pets, our horses. They’re all overloaded with everything in the environment that we shouldn’t be getting that we are. So our livers are busy, and a liver cleanse would be great Very helpful. Once the liver has more room, if you will, then the uterus can start working to shed some of the chemicals out of it and the ovary, too. So you’re saying, Well, how long is this going to take? My mare’s driving me nuts. Well, okay, let’s say you have no more chemicals. They totally stop, and your liver’s good, then it’s still going to take about six months for all those chemicals to get out of the uterus and the ovaries. So try to avoid chemicals. I know you realize they’re, obviously, in any pharmaceutical that we ever have. So whatever. Dewormers, vaccines, some fly sprays, the porons, particularly. They all have chemicals.
Renee (05:35)
And of course, the ones that are being sprayed on us from the skies. I just want a tangent on that. I’m sorry about your luck, my tangenting. But did you hear about the state in America of Tennessee? Tennessee State, they banned chemtrail spraying from the skies. And then everybody’s allergies, I’m quoting I’m here, quote, unquote, with air quotes with my fingers. Allergies. They went down about 60% across the whole state in a day. It’s ridiculous, you guys. Okay. Anyways, if you still have a spray, and we all have this chemical stuff, but let’s just say we could get rid of it. I did want to mention that if you still have a horse who is on any bagged feeds, they have a lot of chemicals as well. You If you’ve been used to me talking or you’ve heard me before, I do speak on horses should only be on hay. Just hay. No grass pasture, just mixed meadow hay, no rye, no alfalfa. I understand that’s not always possible at the moment or for a particular horse. I’m just mentioning that bagged feeds have chemicals in them. Are they necessarily on the label? No. They like to give you this idea that you have a choice of bagged feeds.
Renee (07:04)
In America, we have Purina and Nutrina and Triple Crown, et cetera. I’m not sure you know, but those are all owned by one company you probably haven’t heard of, Cargo. Cargo owns all those. All those corporations are just one big mix and renaming of the same people. My point is they’re putting basically the same chemical type stuff in your horse’s feet. The other thing that’s sneaking in there is flax seed, which is also known as lind seed. So flax, which sounds so nice and it’s so good for omega-3s or 6s or whatever, it doesn’t matter how good they are for your omega. They’re pseudo-estrogenic. Flax seed, also called lind seed, is pseudo-estrogenic. That means that even though it’s not technically an estrogen, the body thinks it is. So it thinks it’s got enough estrogen, so then it decreases real estrogen production, which messes up other hormones. Did you know there’s more than 80 hormones in the body? And when we’re just familiar with the names of a few, there’s 80, and they all interrelate. So anyways, the point is, flax seed is pseudo-estrogenic. So nobody he should be on flax seed at all. That is snuck in to nearly every horse feed that’s in a bag.
Renee (08:40)
I was just reading one. I forget where it is. Well, I probably I’m not going to say it out loud, but whatever. Just read the back where it says… Where did it sneak this in? Sorry, reading it. See, look at this. Highly digestible fibers, multiple fiber sources, I wonder what that means, including Bepal, which is loaded with chemicals. I’m sorry, I don’t care what the internet says and how, Oh, it’s just washed. When we see the word washed, we say, Oh, beetpulp is the leftover byproduct from the sugar industry that’s been washed. It just says washed. We assume washed with water. It’s not washed with water. It’s washed with chemicals which get absorbed. I’m just aggravated because they just freaking lie all the time. I’m sick of it. Anyway, somewhere in this back of this bag that I’m reading, it talks about the flax seed. Oh, yes, here it is. Multiple sources, including rice bran, which is terrible for your horse because the calcium-phosphorus ratio is extremely wrong. Vegetable oils, which are typically rancid and are very, very highly inflammatory to the whole body. And flax seed, which is pseudoestrogenic. So the whole point of this feed that they’re trying to sell you is these three wonderful things, not one of which is wonderful.
Renee (10:12)
So as I mentioned, we shouldn’t be feeding horses bag feeds anyways. They really just need hay. If you’re lucky enough to live in a country or an area of a country where there’s just dry scrub, fibrous grasses, that’s what horses naturally eat, and that can work out okay. But again, 80, 90% of our horses, they just need hay, just hay, available 24/7, and no pasture grass. I’m sorry, I know that seems very sad. But you want to know that whole story, that all is in my Happy Horse mini-course, where we talk about the five horse health happinesses. If you do all those five, then the horse will be happy. Well, as best we can with our current environment, because one day this environment is going to change, and then all we need is these five horse health happinesses, and that’s awesome. Okay, so moody mares, in summary, have thickened uterus and ovaries because of chemicals. The chemicals can be removed from the body. The body will work on it. If they’re not getting any more And of course, it’ll take about six months, and doing a liver cleanse or any liver herbal support, that will help.
Renee (11:38)
It’s not magic, it’s not overnight. I wouldn’t say, Oh, just do a liver cleanse, and then your mare will be fine. No, no, no. Lever cleanse will help, but it takes time and we’ve got to stop the chemicals. The other part of this podcast is just about pregnancy problems in general. So if you’re you’re trying to breed your mare or you have a herd of mares, obviously, all these chemicals are going to affect the uterus and its ability to become pregnant. But there’s just one other simple thing that I wanted to mention that’s helped a lot of people that my clients in the past, and it’s simple alignments of the pelvis. Now, you wouldn’t think that would matter so much, but if you’re familiar with pregnancies in horses, if there’s any the veterinary will usually ultrasound the uterus. Typically, if there’s a getting pregnant issue, then there might be, or very often is, fluid that’s left in the uterus. Uterus. And all the fluid that’s in a uterus should be removed and tipped out. Because if there’s fluid in the uterus, then that impeds or blocks any fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. And becoming a nice tiny baby.
Renee (13:02)
I love foals. Okay, anyways, they’re the uterus. Okay, so what can happen is the pelvis can be crooked. So who cares? I mean, the uterus is in the abdomen somewhere, isn’t it? Well, yeah, I know. It’s in the pelvis and the abdomen, and that’s neither here nor there. The point is that the ovaries are connected to the tuberococci, the bones with ligaments. And then the ovaries are connected with flash and stuff via the fallopian tubes to the uterus. So it’s all connected to the pelvis. Before I went to med school, I just never considered that organs don’t just float around in the body. I mean, sure, there’s a stomach, intestines, pancreas, what have you. But then at At some point I thought, Well, why is it that they don’t just blob on top of each other and scoosh around in there and move all over the place? Oh, sure, sure. Arteries and veins. But how come when we jump up and down, they don’t hit each other and cause damage just by even walking. And you probably know the answer, but it took me a little bit of time to really think about that. It’s because of the ligaments.
Renee (14:26)
There are ligaments that attach every organ in the body to the wall of the body, wherever it might be, except for kidneys. Don’t even get me started on those kidneys. They don’t have ligaments, all right? But everything else does, and it holds them in place. This is why if you have any thoracic or lumbar, so that’s the whole back, so any thoracic or lumbar misalignment in the skeletal system, So you got your chiropractor out there and a chlap rack, and it’s all aligned, you think. And I am certified chiropractic. I do know what I’m talking about here. But when you have a misalignment in the thoracic or lumbar, you have always a concurrent misalignment in the organ which is attached to the skeletal part because it’s all attached by lignes. So you could have a chronic, say, GI problem, gastrointestinal problem, but because you have a spinal cord or a skelet misalignment. Because all the nerves to all the organs come out the spinal cord. If it’s misaligned, they get a little pinched. I have a symptom find this. I’m just letting you know some ideas. Same thing goes with the uterus and the ovaries.
Renee (15:57)
It can be just as simple as aligning the pelvis pelvis, because if the pelvis is misaligned, then the uterus can be tipped the wrong way, like tipped forward towards the head of the horse, rather than how it should be sitting, which is tipped back towards the tail end of the horse, because the uterus needs to flush the fluid out. And it can’t flush fluid out if the uterus is tipped down because it’d be trying to be flushing against gravity, and it can’t get it out. So I have many cases where I’ve had a horse, a mare who’s had difficulty getting pregnant. And all I did at that time was straighten up the pelvis and the mare got pregnant. And it’s just biomechanical structure. No big secret mystery. Just straighten that thing up and it’ll be fine. So please send me your lovely full photos because they’re so cute. Please let me know any other questions. I think that’s it for now. I’ll talk to you guys next time. Thanks for listening. Bye-bye.
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2 Comments on “Podcast episode 49: Moody Mares and problem pregnancies.”
I almost didn’t listen to this one, but I am glad I did because of the bagged “feed” information .
Thank you
Cool. :)