Foal weaned but mare still swollen

[lampshade]

Hi

My mare and foal were weaned 2 weeks ago. I kept mare off grass for the first week. This week she has had an hour or 2 on grass (she gets turnout in a barn all day). Yesterday she stayed on grass abit longer and now her udders are swollen and abit warm to touch. I wondered if this is normal or could be be the start of an infection. The advise I have had from my yard owner is to cut out her feed and just give her hay and abit of chop. What do you guys think?

[brindlerainbow]

I would cut out all feed and just turn her out so she can keep moving, thats what i've always done and have never had a problem

[lampshade]

Thank you, I will not feed her anything other than hay until the swelling has reduced.

[delilah]

When we used to wean the foals. The mares stayed out together in the field and the foals all were stabled together. The mares udders soon went down. I think keeping them stabled just makes their udders fill up and get warm which could bring on infection such as mastitus. Cut out her feed and just feed hay for a while until her udder has dried up.

[smiggs]

Get some vinegar and put that on her udders :-)

[Deleted]

Don't touch her udder at all, leave her out with just hay to eat.

[Ashenvalestud]

Try and keep her moving, turn out or even if you have a horse walker and let her go round on walk.

[lampshade]

The swelling has gone down considerably. I cut all had feed out and let her move around as much as possible. I have been hacking her aswell. We seem to be getting there. Thanks for your advise