Message Number: YG11882 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Russell Prater
Date: 2002-03-13 19:49:00 UTC
Subject: Female in heat

MC wrote:
>
> I have a three year old female that won't come out of heat. She has had
> 2 HCG shots now, spaced 14 days apart and it has been 10 days since the
> second shot. <snipped to please Sukie> :-)
>
> MC

Have you considered the possibility that her heat is from adrenals
rather than estrus? Bonnie had a fully enlarged vulva but very little
other signs of adrenals, only a thinning of the hair on her butt. Give
her a shot of 2 mg 4 month depot Lupron and see what happens.

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Russ, Booger, Bonnie & Clyde
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