l live in the uk and have never heard of a mare being spayed?

you can have a mare spayed. it is not common practice, but it is done. only in dire cases though, kind of as a last resort since the surgery is complicated. it is not done through the mares abdomen like a dog or cat, but it is done through the flank area while the mare is standing.

You can have a mare spayed, but it's much more costly, with greater complications, than having a stallion gelded. Generally speaking, it's not standard practice.

I considered doing this for my mare untill I sold her. When she went into heat, she had bad heat cycles and since we never were going to breed her, I thought about getting it done. Basically its like a histrorectoramy for horses.

nope, never heard of it. i have always had geldings, and to be honest, it never occured to me to spay a mare . colts can be gelded without general aneasthetic but a mare would have to have it. this would make it extremely costly and a more dangerous operation

Nor have I. It's too dangerous and invasive - it would be a huge open abdominal surgery - kinda like a colic surgery...which doesn't always go well. Horses are too heavy to have those kind of surgeries - can't hold the sutures once they stand...that's why colic surgeries are so gaurded. It's much easier to geld the males.

neither have L

sorry neither have I

spayed? spayed is for a dog....

neither have i

ha ha nore have i

neither have i