Do female horses have a menstuation "period" like humans do? Does a bloody, vaginal discharge follow shortly after?
2006-09-15 13:28:09 · 21 answers · asked by xhorse_riderx 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
Horses go into an Estrous cycle. Not a menstrual cycle of humans.
In the mare, it is commonly divided into two periods for practical purposes. The follicular phase or estrus period of the cycle is the period during which the mare shows behavioral signs of estrus and finally ovulates. Mares in estrus usually urinate (winking) quite frequently when teased.
Sexual receptivity is influenced by season. Behavioral sign of mares coming out of winter anestrus (inactivity).
Now about the discharge part, Jennies will stand for the jackass showing interest, as urinate frequently, and quite often a slimy mucus is discharged from the vagina.
Estrous cycles of mare are usually 21 to 23 days in length.
Season of the year is the most common cause of irregularity in estrous cycles.
In California, the average estrous cycle length is shortest between April and October (lat spring and summer) and longest is November and March.
Horses don't expel any blood since horses don't shed their uterus wall like humans do. If the horse does so, then there is an infection that seriously needs to be taken care of.
2006-09-15 16:46:16 · answer #1 · answered by Mutchkin 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Horse Menstruation
2017-01-09 20:10:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a VET but grew up on a farm with horses (and lots of animals), and I do know I never saw any animal with menses in the same manner as humans do. I have reason to believe their system is very different - for some reason. This is an opinion, not an educated answer.
2006-09-15 13:38:57 · answer #3 · answered by magician 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, horses do not have a regular period, other than coming in 'heat' every 28 days + or _.
2006-09-15 13:37:09 · answer #4 · answered by skyeblue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that they were fond of tampax -NOT! No, mares in heat are completely different from humans "in heat;" but the actual cycles are pretty much the same concept and approximately around the same time frame. Reproduction, baby! It's the key to survival!
2006-09-15 13:47:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mares are no different than humans. The menstrual cycle is when she sheds the unfertilized egg. Her heat period[when she will accept a stud] is approximately halfway between two menstrual cycles. I have forgotten the exact days. The is when she is most likely to become pregnant.
2006-09-15 13:41:32 · answer #6 · answered by sawmill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mares are long-day breeders.Thier season is initiated as the ratio of daylight to darkness increases and ends during decreasing day lengths.The avertage season for ponies is May to October,but is longer in horses,extending from February to Nomember.Peak fertility is obtained if mares are bred between May and July.Behavioral estrus occurring during short-day months (January to April) is frequently not accompaniedby ovulation.Much variation in the length of the breeding season is seen in indiidual mares and amon mares.As in the ewe,the day-lenght pattern has the dominant controlling influence on the mare,s breding season.The breeding season can be lengthened by the use of artifical light period before the start or near the end of the anticipated season.An alternating sequence of 16 hours of light and 8 hours of dark will bring mares out of anestrus.
The sasonal breding pattern is not as wel defined for the stallion.Fertile semen can be collected throughout the year.However, declines in sexual activity and semen production occur in months with short photoperiod.
In sesonal breeders,it is theorized that the retina of the eye is the sensor for the light signals,wit impulses gong by way of the optic nerve and other neural pathways to the pineal gland.The pineal gland,possibly through release of melatonin(section 4-9),may serve as the mediator between the photoreceptors and the hypothalamus and/or the anterior pituitary.An increase in the frequency and size of episodic surges of LH occurs a sbreeding season approaches.Pinealectomy has reduced the effect of changesin phtoperiod on secretion of LH in rams.Also,denervation of the pineal gland will delay the onset of the breeding season in mares.while earlier gland will delay the onset an effect of pinealectomy on seasonal patterns of estrus in ewes,interest in the pineal gland as mediator of seasonal breeding patterns has been renewed by more recent research indicating an effect of the pineal on secretion of gonadotropins.
2006-09-15 14:05:39 · answer #7 · answered by Libby2526 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a section of time a women will have a menstruation most women goes 5days,period its called that to describle lenath of time,
2016-03-17 21:41:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Mares only go into heat when their eyes have absorbed enough light to trigger the heat hormone. They do not have menstural cycles.
2006-09-15 13:36:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no they just do a sort of squat in front of the closest male gelding or not and pee its because their conception is longer than ours and they only come into heat at certain times of the year
2006-09-15 13:52:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋