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Elena Vieira
Neonate
Username: Opheliaimmorttal
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, December 10, 2005 - 08:15 pm: | 
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I just want to see other pictures of horses who are pregnant. My mare is 7 months along and I think she's pretty big and would love to see how big everyone elses are. I am going to make a webpage pretty soon and link it! So please feel free to share your pictures! |
Kim Winter
Weanling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 40
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 06:05 am: |
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A wonderful idea - Id love to have some comparisons. Look forward to seeing them all : ) |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 08:02 am: |
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Here is a link to two of my Preganant mares I have pictures from 51? months along to 8 months along one is a maiden the other has had a previous foal. Looking forward to seeing other pictures too. This is great!
http://photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/ |
Shelley Graham
Neonate
Username: Shelley
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 10:06 am: |
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My mare at 7 months...has had 2 previous foals.
[URL=http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/d1941138.jpg][IMG]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/th_d1941138.jpg[/IMG][/URL] |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 10:19 am: |
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Thanks for sharing Shelly, she is a pretty girl and very big for 7 months along. My horses usually do not show up that big on the sides until they are nearly 9 months along. How big is she going to be at term? wow! |
Emma
Weanling
Username: Emma
Post Number: 50
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 04:48 pm: |
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Shelly your mare is very nice. what is she in foal to? I will include a link to one of my web pages with a photo of our last mare to foal this year, she is about 10 1/2 months along and as you can see she is HUGE! http://www.freewebs.com/redscent/2005babies.htm
go down to the very bottom of the page to see her photo. |
Shelley Graham
Neonate
Username: Shelley
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, December 12, 2005 - 07:58 pm: |
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Hi Jan and Emma...is she big??! This is MY first foal (her third). Previous owner said she is all belly when pregnant...she was right! Its definitely not twins as she was U/S'd at 15, 35, and 56 days..she is 'due' in March. She's in foal to a buckskin tobiano named Sunday Peanut Brittle.
Jan, your mare must be as wide as she is tall! Poor thing, I hope she foals soon.. |
Kim Winter
Weanling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 44
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 02:32 pm: |
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I have my picture all ready but I dont know how to get it on here! Help!
Shelley your mare is beautiful! really nice piccie, Congrats : ) |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2005 - 09:13 pm: |
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Here are updated pictures of two of my mares, both are due within two days of each other.
The bay has had one previous foal and is 7 years old.
The sorrel with flaxen mane is a maiden and 17 hh and long bodied so does not show as much as the other mare who is 15.2 hh.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/cf6f9ffa.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/a9e801f4.jpg[/IMG] |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 08:38 am: |
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This is our Appy mare she is about 7 months along now. This is her second foal the first one was about 6 years ago before I owned her;
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/dodib/5b60cbc3.jpg
here is my quarter horse mare--we are not positive she is pregnant but she has gotten very big.If she is pregnant she would be due early March. She was bred before we got her
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/dodib/Im000624.jpg |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 08:41 am: |
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Kim you need to upload them onto Photobucket(its free) then copy the img line and paste it on your post |
Kim Winter
Weanling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 48
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 10:36 am: |
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Thanks Dorthy! I hope Ive done everything right : )
Mine too is having her second foal as far as Im aware and the last one was about 8 yrs ago with her previous owner. Shes a 16hh TB and the foal will be TBxNew forest.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/WEE--6-MTHS.jpg |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 10:56 am: |
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She's very pretty when is she due? |
Kim Winter
Weanling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 49
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 11:11 am: |
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Thankyou! Shes due May 15th - Im very excited : )
Your Appy mare is lovely too - when did you take those pictures? - Theres Snow on the ground! |
Kim Winter
Weanling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 50
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |
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And just because now Ive learnt how to do it and I couldnt resist - This is the stallion I bred her to - All his 'family' at the stud were the same as him in colour and markings, not deliberate but I wouldnt mind a bay.
Anyone else with piccies of their chosen stallions?
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/babys%20daddy/1131c200.jpg |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 12:31 pm: |
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He is very nice..............
well I live in Michigan we have a ton of snow. Just took the pics a few days ago. she was more interested in what the neighbors geldings were doing though so its not that great of a pic. she's "due" May 4th which is my and her birthdays so that would be neat but probably won't happen |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 51
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 01:11 pm: |
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Oh, Ive been dreading the snow all month after a threat of just a week or so of it - Not very well prepared for snow in the south of england! Funnily enough, mine was watching the nextdoor neighbours while I was trying to take a photo - EVENTUALLY I decided to stand where she was looking instead of trying to turn her round! Good luck with hitting the 4th! They must get the Due date spot on sometimes else they would start working it out differently surely ; ) |
Kathee McGuire
Neonate
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 05:05 pm: |
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I never miss a chance to show my pride and joy off! Here she is at 244 days/8 months. She is a 5 yr old maiden so I understand she may look smaller than some. It really depends on the angle - she has definately lost her girlish figure!
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/ |
Emma
Yearling
Username: Emma
Post Number: 60
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2005 - 08:51 pm: |
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She is a lovely looking mare Kathee is she a saddle bred? |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 52
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 06:31 am: |
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Kathee -Lovely, lovely colouring - What is she bred to? |
Kathee McGuire
Neonate
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 10:36 am: |
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Thank you - the minute I saw her I knew she was going home with me! She has been the perfect match for me through both looks and temprement. She is not registered so I am not sure. She was presented to me as a Quarter Horse, but there is definately something else there because she does not move like a Quarter Horse. She does have the Buckskin coloring which is an American Old West cowboy favorite. She is bred to a 15.5 hd Tenessee Walking Horse (I added his pic).
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/
He has only thrown black varitations in color in his 9 yr history which would be a nice addition my Buckskin, Palomino and Bay! |
Emma
Yearling
Username: Emma
Post Number: 61
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 05:39 pm: |
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Kathee, looks to me like you have done a good job with your choice of stallions. He looks like he is going to compliment her just wonderfully!!! Make sure you post photo's of the baby, I think your on a winner here!!! |
Teri R
Neonate
Username: Eminentarabians
Post Number: 5
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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Here is a picture of my pregnant mare that will be at 340 days on Feb. 19th, according to a foal calculator I used. This picture was taken approximately a couple weeks ago.
http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/591339d0/bf5d/__sr_/214fre2.jpg?phgSMrDBvGlpA2KD |
Christie Miller
Nursing Foal
Username: Gallamist
Post Number: 14
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, December 23, 2005 - 11:30 pm: |
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Here's my mare 158 days in foal. Also a maiden mare.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/Gallamist/Ruby/2rubyplay.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/Gallamist/Ruby/1ruby5months2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/Gallamist/Ruby/1rubyvinnysnowybums.jpg |
Elena Vieira
Neonate
Username: Opheliaimmorttal
Post Number: 7
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:42 pm: |
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Here's the link to the stallion I bred my Mare 2.
http://www.sportpony.us/Moonshine.htm
(my mares a red dun, so the baby will either be a palomino or buckskin!) |
Elena Vieira
Neonate
Username: Opheliaimmorttal
Post Number: 8
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 - 11:49 pm: |
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I forgot to put the pic of my mare b4 breeding
http://www.sportpony.us/moonshinemares.htm
heres a link...i dont know if it will work but its of my mare at 7 months ( she's now 8 and bigger!) She's a 7-8 yr old maiden mare.
http://photobucket.com/albums/d111/Opheliaimmorttal/ |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 10:48 am: |
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Here is my mare who is 270 days today Hope this works
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/f7ee75bf.jpg[/IMG] |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 03, 2006 - 11:03 am: |
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This is the Stallion my mare (maiden mare) is bred to. His name is Tres Seis
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/tres_seis_conf.gif[/IMG] |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2006 - 12:07 pm: |
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Here is an updated picture of My mare Jade at 270 days along.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/b88b9f98.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 63
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:16 am: |
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Wow - you said she was a maiden didnt you..?
She makes mine look huge - Mine still has just over 8wks until she is as far along as yours and her belly has grown loads! If it grows too much more in the last trimester I think my TB/NF cross could be resulting in a shire baby! : ) |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 64
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:21 am: |
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Also - and I probably got this link from this board somewhere - have you seen this gestation chart, Its been really interesting looking at it as I go along.
www.eagleridge-twh.com/fetus1.htm
Try it! : )
(Message edited by clafairy on January 05, 2006) |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 65
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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Sorry - I see it wont work - try this:
www.eagleridge-twh.com/fetus1.htm |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 11:49 am: |
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She may look small but she is a lot bigger in person, if you want to see small look at the maiden mare, the other mare has had one foal previously. This maiden is 17 hands tall and very long backed. From the front both mares stick out huge, from the side they do not look as big.
Kim maybe you could post a picture of your mare from the side so we can see just how big she is.
Here is the maiden same due date as the bay mare I posted previously.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/a9e801f4.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 67
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 03:16 pm: |
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http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/rome001.jpg
I dont have a picture from the side - Ill have to do one - I try to avoid them because shes not very photogenic! As you will see - there are a few photos you can mozie through on there now. The red rug is the one from last year, you can see that she hangs out the bottom of it now! and the others are not so recent but shes still got a fair belly on her. She too has had just one before this one - but at 17yo maybe its just gravity dragging it all down : )
I looked at the maidens piccie you posted - they are both nice mares hey Jan. Hope you get what your after..Or maybe whatever you end up with is exactly what you are after anyway, boy, girl, black, grey...purple, yellow or otherwise ; ) I know Im not as fussy as I was at the beginning. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 68
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 03:18 pm: |
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Im sure Ill get the hang eventually!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/DSCF0072.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/DSCF0070.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/rome010.jpg |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Kim she is a pretty girl and looks pretty big, age does have a factor on how they show and the uterous does not have the same tone as it does when they are 3-8 years old. My girl Jade (the bay) is 7 years and the maiden is 3 and a half years old. I have raised over 37 foals over the last 29 years of breeding in May it will be 30 years of breeding, I only breed one or two mares a year I have only 12 horses. I raise racing quarter horses and race one promising colt a year. Color is not important to me as much as conformation temperment and of course speed. However I wanted a paint foal out of Jade who is a breeding stock paint with both APHA and AQHA registries to keep the foal and train it as my next pleasure horse since my other older pleasure horse mare is now 18 and will not be rideable for too many more years. What are your plans for your foal? Will you keep it or sell it? I hope you get what you want and that mother and baby stay healthy stong and as wonderful as they can be. There is nothing in this world as wonderful as foaling season to a true horse lover! "Blessed are the Broodmares"  |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 69
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 03:57 am: |
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Unfortunately soon after I put my mare in foal she was diagnosed with Navicular - Had I known that before I would not have bred her, but, now that she is I will be keeping the foal for myself, Id like to show it as a youngster in hand and then do dressage. After the foal is born and I can deal with mums poorly feet I hope to get her back into light work for a while.
Id like a filly and preferably bay, but Im not really worried - My main reasoning is that Id like a filly incase I decide to breed again, and Id like to try for a QHxBuckskin for myself maybe? Thats many years from now though so we will see. This is my first foal but Im enjoying it immensley - Hasnt been plain sailing and its cost me a fortune but I just love it!! Ive even considered a job at a stud farm but I live in the worst area for it...
30yrs is a whole lot of experience - So I know where to find a lot of knowledge then ; ) Good luck at the races and heres keeping my fingers crossed for that paint your after. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 70
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 03:58 am: |
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I mean QHx, buckskin colouring! |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 08:09 am: |
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I wish you all the best Kim! I know that I will get a paint as she was bred to a 100% homozygous Tobiano Stallion. Which means he throws paint foals 100% of the time. I hope your mare gets through this pregnancy with no complications from her Navicular. Poor thing, thank goodness she has you looking out for her.
As far as experiences, well you are in the right place, you are surrounded by many many experienced people on this board who are willing and able to address any need or question you might have. Good luck and please keepme/us updated on how your mare is doing. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 72
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 08:32 am: |
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At the beginning the begininng of all this my vet though my mare had had twins and that they were being reabsorbed she said she was sorry but the was no way I would have a foal in 11mths. I couldnt really beleive her though until my mare was home from the vets and so when she called again after the wkend I knew what she was going to say - One of the 'circles' on the scan image was a cyst - the other was my future baby, and it had a heartbeat! yay... Once all the drama and stallion choosing and scans were over though the time started to drag and i was getting impatient - This board has been invaluable at passing the time quickly hearing everyone elses experiences and have good advice on EVERYTHING you could imagine. Thankyou for your help (and indeed everyone elses) I will be looking out for updates on yours too : )
Next job - (apart from the obvious!) Naming the little tyke : 0 |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Friday, January 06, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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It soundas like you have been through the ringer during this time, the cyst the worry she might have twins sounds like you have been on a rollercaster ride of emotions, hopefully the last 2 plus months will be more level and more filled with excitement, anticipation and wonderful bonding between you and your mare and soon your new four legged child. names yes I have the same problem coming up with names that have not been used already under the AQHA or the APHA Jades will be "Jades Luck of the Straw"
And Diggers will be "Tre's Salida Cero" (exit 0) in spanish. Good luck on naming yours. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 79
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 07, 2006 - 05:49 am: |
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They are both great names - I especially like exit 0 - I also like the translated names - I had got as far as this for mine - 'Winter Special' = Invierno Especiale. also spanish. Envy for the stable name - but then I though I should wait and see what the foal looks like... |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
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Stable names I always wait till the foal is on the ground, personality is so important to that name. I agree that is the best way to do it. Love the name you picked, it is very nice.
I chose Jades foals name as "Jades Luck of the Straw" because she is bred to AQHA Champion "Lucky Two Straws" out of Supreme Champion "Jack Straw" and Champion ROM "Made of Straw" Thus Jades "Luck of the Straw"
I love naming the foals but it gets more diffecult every year.  |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 1
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 12:35 am: |
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Hello,
This is a great place. I have a mare that is due to foal within the next 2 weeks, but may go sooner.
Her name is Grace, and she's a brown QH mare. We're all set up and ready to go...close circuit monitoring to boot (well, nanny cam modified, but it works)
Here are her pics! Some of my dog thrown in too.
http://photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/ |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 12:51 am: |
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Having trouble gettng my photobucket to link correctly through the message board. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Heather |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 34
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 12:52 pm: |
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Here is my mare due to foal in April.
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20152.jpg
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20168.jpg
I love seeing pictures of everyones mares . |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 01:51 pm: |
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Pretty girl cassie looks like we are all in good shape to share foal watch together.
Heather, you click on the IMG box under the picture then click on copy come here make a post and at the end of you post click on paste then post it. hope it works for you.
Jan |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 3
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 02:18 pm: |
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Okay,
Will try again.
Here are a few pics of "Grace".
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/grace106.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/grace103.jpg[/IMG]
the stallion she was bred to:
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/ArtSF.jpg[/IMG] |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
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Heather she is a very pretty mare I am guessing a colt. You wrote in the above post that she is due in two weeks and later you wrote that she is due in April, so I am guessing that you meant two months not two week? I am anxious too for a foal to drop so I can not blame you for wanting it to come sooner! The breeding looks like a nice match! Good luck!
Jan |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
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oops my mistake heather I got you confused with Kassie, my apologies for the mix up. <blush>
Jan |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 6
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 07:40 pm: |
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Hi Jan,
I think my mare is rather pretty, but it's great to hear it from others, so thank you!
She is "due" in 1-2 weeks, but has been playing the foaling fire drill today. Big udders, off her feed, restless.....then NUTHIN.
Needless to say, there will be no sleep tonight. I am simply about to jump out of my skin with excitement, and am likely to burst before she does. |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
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does her udder stay bagged or does it fill then empty just to fill up again? I hope your wait will not be too much longer for you I know how that last few weeks can make you a wreck! Hang in there. |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 7
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2006 - 11:36 pm: |
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Up until the past few days, her udder would go down during the day, then fill up again at night. Not so yesterday and today. Have been doing the milk test strips, and she's tested 400 ppm for 3-4 days. The color is a deep/cloudy amber color, and sticky...but not "milk". She was quite irritable about me touching them this evening.
This morning, she looked ripe for foaling...looked as if she was starting up just when we had unexpected company (isn't that perfect timing), and she quit...acted as if there wasn't a care in the world. Now, she is obviously tired, and is resting quietly, occasionally laying down in her stall. So, who knows. Probably won't foal 'til March, and I'll be a nervous wreck .
It HAS been a long year, hasn't it?! |
Kris Moos
Nursing Foal
Username: Kris
Post Number: 18
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:35 am: |
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I am unsure how to post more than one photo at a time, so this will come in 3 steps.
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/3773c083.jpg[/IMG][IMG] |
Kris Moos
Nursing Foal
Username: Kris
Post Number: 19
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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here is the stllion she was bred to "RAINBIRD RANCHO" aka "Sunn[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5326.jpg[/IMG]y" |
Kris Moos
Nursing Foal
Username: Kris
Post Number: 20
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5289.jpg[/IMG]
Okay this is her "girly" side view!
"TSAHARAH" is a almost 17 year ol registered arabian, she is 15 hands tall, this is her 3rd foal, however she has not had a foal for 10 years. I have had her 16 years.
She is bred to the above dun Quarter horse stallion, and is due late march early april (she bred every other day for 14 days, so her "due date" is hard to pin point.
I never resist an opportunity to show off my mare! She is an awesome ARAB! yes i said it, many do not like the arabians sue to their daintyness and flighty personalities, however Tsaharah is different...she is as calm or calmer than any quarter horses I have owned! Like my vet says "This is one Arab that did not read the "ARAB BOOK" !!! she is very non typical in behavior and very large built (She was sired by (Sanbara Tsalli) and that is why i chose to breed her to a quarter horse, to get the best of both worlds! |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 36
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 12:58 pm: |
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Kris your girl is very pretty. she has a nice soft look to her. I have heard that 1/2 arabs and 1/2 quarter horses are getting to be very popular. People say they are better than a quarter horse and better than an arabian. We actually thought about crossing one of our QH mares with an arabian. Can't wait to see the foal. When is she due to foal? My mare is due in April around the 20th. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 93
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 01:55 pm: |
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HEllo all -
Kassie your mare is lovely looking - she looks to have a very kind eye, freindly looking you know? What colour is she - she seems to be very dark bay,almist black barring her nose, is that right?
Heather - Your mare is beautiful, she looks so shiny and elegant, I didnt expect to see a horse that close to foaling and be able to use the word elegant!and her tail is just fantastic! Have you got a foal yet?
and Kris, also a kind looking mare isnt she? And I like your stallion choice. I too would like a QHx, buckskin - maybe the next time around...
Yes heather, Its been a VERY long year! and I have been excited enough to burst on and off for the last 7 months, what will I be like for the next 4! |
Heather Kutyba
Neonate
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 9
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 02:03 pm: |
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UPDATE!!!!!
Do believe we are in STAGE I labor, keep fingers crossed. Got the vet standing on call. I'm ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!!! |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 95
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 02:12 pm: |
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Oh - very pleased for you! Good luck, and we expect to see photies soon : )
Push! |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 38
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 02:31 pm: |
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Thanks Kim, yes she is a very very dark bay. She does look almost black. But the woman we bought her from said she is lighter in the summer time. She is registered as a Bay.
Heather, I loved your mare. BEAUTIFUL. And how exciting you may have a foal today or tonight.  do keep us posted. And be sure to post pictures. I want to see how beautiful her baby is. GL.
this is my favorite time of year, when all the foals start to arrive. |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 11
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 03:17 pm: |
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We are apparently in "intermission".....Grace has decided she needs a snack break in between contractions. Water has not broken yet. |
Kim Winter
Yearling
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 99
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 04:12 pm: |
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 Shes not trying to fool you is she? |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 08:57 pm: |
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heather- good luck!
hopefully she is not holding out because YOU are there...
post photos asap! |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 12
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 09:13 pm: |
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She IS/WAS holding out because I was there. Talk about putting the brakes on...
She was getting reved up, and stopped it all. I have done nothing but sit and watch this goofy tv all day. I am hoping she will start again this evening.
Thank you for all of your support, and I will keep in touch. So, I am out of sleep for about 36 hours, and have all night to go. She is bagged, baby is moved, all she has to do is her part and let it happen. Ugh, maiden mares. |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
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Good luck Heather!!!! Hope she pops soon so you can love on that baby then get some rest! |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 13
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 09:40 pm: |
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Kim,
Thank you so much for your kind words about Grace. She is an elegant girl, isn't she! I have been amazed at how well she has done throughout her pregnancy, and how good she looks.
I nearly lost her last year due to a major injury to one of her front pasterns. 2 surgeries and 1 year later she's light to ride (after having the foal) by the surgeons. It has been a long haul, but well worth it.
Now, if the foal will only come! |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 11
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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Heather - she is gorgeous and I hope she is a mommy by now. I have a maiden mare Sweet Dreams due the end of March begining of April. We also have the video cam - known as the "Dream cam". Two months away and I still watch this goofy monitor. However, it gives you a great insight as to what goes on in the barn while you are away! I recognize that beautiful spanish moss on the oak trees...what part of the south are you in? I am in Alabama. |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 29
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:16 pm: |
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wow, my mare grew over night i think, she seems have gotten lower and wider but not as full in the flank area
Is this normal? (this early)
to[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/ef25b9e4.jpg[/IMG]
I have 2 more photos fo follow |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 30
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:19 pm: |
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front view, very lopsided...meaning behind that?
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/4d6dde06.jpg[/IMG] |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 31
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:22 pm: |
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rear view, wide..
she waddles severely when she walks, as if her belly throws her off balance with every step
still not bagged though, thats a good thing![IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/2ecbd80e.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 109
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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Wow - that is a bid baby from the rear view.. Not her best angle hey : )
How far along is she kris? |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 110
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:34 pm: |
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Just to add kris, I found your earlier post - She is only 2 months from foaling approx isnt she and they do grow faster in these months - also she is 17 (same as mine) and mines been quite big too, apparently less muscle tone to hold it all up, and its her 3rd so shell have less than mine! All things to consider incase your worrying yourself - Could it be all of these things? |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 12
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:43 pm: |
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Kris, the lopsided just indicates which horn she is pregnant in and when the foal drops and centers itself, the time is near - usually within a few days to a week. I didn't realize (until I was educated on this site) that the top of the uterus has two extension (horns) connecting to the ovaries. The mare carries the baby in the left or right horn depending on which one carried the egg. When the foal starts moving into position, it will lower (drop) into the uterus and her stomach will be lower with almost a point or v-shape to it. She is big from behind! My question is the same as Kim's ... when is she due? |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 12:43 pm: |
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THANKS KIM, I AM HOPING SO, HOWEVER LIKE I SAID I THINK SHE WILL EXPLODE, IF SHE DID NOT HAVE SO MUCH HAIR SHE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE STRETCH MARKS!!!! i HAVE A QH BAY MARE SAME SIZE AS THIS ONE, WAS BRED AND FOALED TO SAME STALLION IN 05 , SHE IS 8 YEARS OLD AND THIS WAS HER 4 OR 5 BABY AND SHE WASNT EVEN THIS BIG AT FULL TERM...
(IN ONE OF THE ABOVE POSTED PHOTOS YOU CAN SEE THE FOAL, SHE IS THE LITTLE WHITE DUN/ROAN FILLY, SHE WAS SAID TO BE THE LARGEST FOAL OUT OF THIS STALLION SO FAR(ACCORDING TO THE STALLION OWNER), AND NOW AT 8 1/2 MONTHS (SHE IS 1 WEEK OLDER THAN MY MARES LAST BREEDING DATE) SHE IS AROUND 13.2 HANDS TALL, SO I THINK I MAY BE IN FOR A "MONSTER"BABY...YOU THINK SO? |
Emma
Breeding Stock
Username: Emma
Post Number: 108
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 06:54 pm: |
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Kris, comparing the two mares will only work if they are the same stature, height and build but seeings one is a QH and one is a arab it would seem normal to me that the arab would seem huge. Arabs are only small framed horses so you are seeing ALL baby. QH's are much bigger framed so they can hide a foal a lot easier. |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 35
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 - 07:16 pm: |
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TRUE, HOWEVER THE QH MARE IS FINER BUILT THAN THE ARAB AND I THINK THE ARAB HAS A LONGER BODY, THEY ARE THE SAME HEIGHT EXACTLY AND THE ARAB IS WIDER. (ABNORMAL QH, AND ABNORMAL ARAB, SHE IS OFTEN CONFUSED WITH A QH OR A QH CROSS)
THANKS I WILL KEEP THAT IN MIND, THEIR INSIDES COULD VERY WELL BE DIFFERENT ALSO AFFECTING THE "SHOW". |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 14
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 03:54 am: |
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WE DID IT!!!
Grace foaled a beautiful seal brown/black colt at 10:05 pm last night (still today as far as I'm concerned!).
It has been a long several days, as she has been going in and out of Stage I since Sunday morning. Allow me to verify it IS possible for mares to control the early stages of delivery...I've just never seen it to this extent.
She also foaled a little earlier than expected, at 327 days. I knew she would, so had started monitoring her closely about 10 days ago. Everyone around here has been razzing me about it, but looks like my gut was right.
Grace did a great job. Literally layed down and spit him out in about 4 minutes. He is a little pistol. He was up and nursing in an hour. Cantering around the stall in 2 hours. He, of course, looks huge to me. I was able to do a rough measurement, and he comes to 40 inches tall.
Momma and baby are doing well, and Grace is a wonderful mother...nickers at him so softly.
Attached are some initial photos of him, but I will place more in a day or so.
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010022.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010009.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010018.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010017.jpg[/IMG] |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 15
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 04:03 am: |
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Kathee,
I can't tell you how much the camera helped me out. It was a life saver, and made it a lot more comfortable for my mare since I wasn't interupting her. Dream cam is right!
Thank you for the wonderful comments on Grace. Now that she is a mommy, I have high hopes for her new colt.
She just HAD to pick the coldest night that we've had in 2 months to have him.
I live in Houston, TX. The weather has been great here, except for this cold front that blew in last night...leaving us in the 30's. Not exactly prime foaling conditions for mares that are used to temps in the 60-70's during the mid winter. But, we prepared well for the "just in case" we get a freak cold front in, and put up radiant heaters above the foaling stall. So her and the baby are warm enough. |
Emma
Breeding Stock
Username: Emma
Post Number: 110
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 04:15 am: |
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Well done ... babies are poping out every where at the moment!!! |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 36
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 06:04 am: |
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congrats to you! he is adorable, she looks like such a sweet mommy! |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 08:25 am: |
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Congratulations! I am so happy for you that the wait is over! I thought she looked like she was carrying low and wide (which I predicted a colt) I have one mare due in a month and a week who is carrying the same and I predict a colt from her, I have a maiden mare who is high and tight (like most maidens are) But I feel she is carrying a filly. Your so lucky to have the wait over with, He is gorgeous just like his momma! Enjoy him he is precious! |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 112
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 09:07 am: |
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Well done grace and heather, and Jan too on her 'prediction' : )
You and taylor - Emmas right - Babies all round.
Lovely photos, he looks all velvety, what a great colour. Be great to see some soon of him up and about! |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 43
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:38 am: |
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Wow heather, what a beauty. Lookes like you and Taylor had a foal the same day. He is beautiful. Can't wait to see more pictures of him. So who is up next for a foal? |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 16
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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Way to go Heather and Grace - He appears to be the spittin' image of his momma. I love this site as a way to be apart of so many births. I can't wait to see the results of all these mommies-to-be. Be sure to post some updated pictures of the little guy up and around! |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 16
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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Jan,
FYI, she did carry very wide. Up until about a month ago, you couldn't even tell from a side view that she was in foal. Now, hind end view it was pretty apparent!
So far, all seems well with momma and baby. The vet is due out any moment to look both of them over. I am a little concerned about him....I am probably paranoid...but he is knuckling over in one of his hind pasterns......let me know if anyone has any thoughts about this.
talk w/ya'll soon
Heather, Grace, & baby |
Tansy Brassfield
Nursing Foal
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 20
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:18 pm: |
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We had a beautiful palomino filly Sunday night. You can see her at http://www.brassfieldranch/2006foals.htm she is the 2nd foal so far for 2006, the first one is a clients out of our stallion. We are very excited since he has thrown two palominos allready. Next one is due anyday and is HUGE!! She is a red roan bred to our palomino. Can't wait to see what she produces, she is maiden. I will keep you updated when the new baby arrives. |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 17
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:38 pm: |
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Tansy - Congrats! They are both beautiful babies. All these little babies are really getting me anxious for mine...and I have 2 1/2 months! I will just enjoy yours until then. |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 44
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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Tansy congrats to you to. What a pretty girl. Kathee I know what you mean. I can't wait to have our mare foal, and I still have like 3 months left, it is driving me nuts  . I do not know how many foals this mare has had before, so I don't know how long she carried her last one. I feel like I am waiting on a maiden mare lol. I did find the former owners and have sent them a letter asking about her history. This mare is so sweet. I saddled her for the first time and she did great. I even sat in the saddle and walked around in the round pen for a few minutes. She does not know anything and just walks where she wants. All she know is clicking means go, and whoa means stop lol. Once this baby is on the ground I will start training her. Now I have a question, what do you think she will have? colt of filly? here is two pictures:
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20150.jpg
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20168.jpg
I can't wait, but I guess I will have to lol. |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 18
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 01:17 pm: |
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Does anyone know where I can buy a DVD or Video of multiple births of foals? Having never been through this, I would like to see some of the behaviours of the mares before they foal and whole process. I have several books including "Blessed are the Broodmares". I would just like to see a couple of actual births so I will have a better feel for what the process really should be. |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 45
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 02:44 pm: |
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I have bought a couple of videos from edmar videos. here is the link
http://www.edmar.com/equine_educational_video_series.html
they have one on foaling. I liked the other two I bought. One is live cover breeding, and the other is fitting the show horse for halter. I learned a lot from both of them. It is kind of odd how you order from them but they have very nice educational videos. |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 19
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 03:23 pm: |
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Thank you, Kassie. I just ordered it. If anyone else knows of another one, please let me know! |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 211
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 04:55 pm: |
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Hey kassie Im guessing yall are gonna have a filly. |
Kathee McGuire
Nursing Foal
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 20
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 06:48 pm: |
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OK...is guessing the sex a coin toss or is there really a method? |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 212
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 07:00 pm: |
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Its just a guess .And a feelingHey its about a 50/50 chance Ill get it right. |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 21
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 07:21 pm: |
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Oh- forgot to tell you- both these fillys on my website were suppossed to be colts- according to the Nail test, so far the nail test has been wrong for me , but still have six foals to go so we will see... |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 07:36 pm: |
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I've learned so much on this site I wasn't sure if there was a secret to determining! A friend told me that if I bred her in the AM I would get a filly and the PM would produce a colt. I thought she was joking at first ... then I just thanked her for the information and changed the subject. |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 213
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 07:52 pm: |
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I just guess by the way they carry.lol |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 07:53 pm: |
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Kassie I am predicting a colt again, she looks very low. but hey I could be wrong. What were you hopeing for? |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 46
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 08:10 pm: |
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I don't really care what it is. as long as it is healthy. I kinda think it might be a filly. The only reason is because we have had nothing but colts last year and I would like to have a filly this year. But a colt would be fine with me as well. Just please be healthy  . The other reason I think a filly is because two of my other mares carried high and had a colt and this mare is kind of low, so I am going to say filly. But we will see in 3 moths (my that sounds like such a long wait).lol, but not as long as 11 months  |
Kassie Finley
Weanling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 48
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 08:42 pm: |
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Oh I also wanted to say we have finally picked out a barn name for here. We are calling her Fancy. |
Heather Kutyba
Nursing Foal
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 17
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:38 pm: |
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More baby pics. He is a very sweet colt, outgoing, friendly. Did I mention BIG. We were able to get an acurate measurement from withers to hoof while he was napping (talk about out for the count). He is 42 inches. I can't wait for him to fill out. Sorry, no turn out photos...he has to stay inside until his back pasturn relaxes. Vet thinks he was just a wee bit squashed in momma, but he is very happy to be out. Lopes around the stall constantly.
Let me know if anyone has ideas about a name. The only thing that I've thought of is "Scamper", because he scamps around the stall (real original I know).
Here's todays pics:
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010023.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010035.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010030.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010027.jpg[/IMG] |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 215
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:54 pm: |
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Hes a handsome boy looks like you've been blessed. |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 38
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 06:12 am: |
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he is SOOO adorable, i love the last photo with his tongue hanging out!!! |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 24
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 09:50 am: |
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He is beautiful!
A question for all you experienced foalers - I have been researching imprinting the foal at birth and it seems to make sense (looks good on the DVD). Do you imprint them at birth or later? What are you thoughts? |
AngelaCano (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 70.185.98.233
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:47 am: |
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Ya'll are gonna be dumbfounded with my mare! Can you believe she is 10 months in this picture? She just dropped, so it's a bit easier to tell then before haha.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v189/goheartbreakkid/novastand.jpg |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 25
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 10:59 am: |
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Angela - Is she a maiden? What is she bred to? |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 40
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 11:12 am: |
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Angelacano- wow, dont look too big at all! mine looked bigger than that at 6 months, is she a maiden?
KATHEE- the foals i have had i handle them quite a bit right from the start. I start with gentle petting at thier level(crouch) i put a halter on the first day and every day there after just for a short time to get them used to putting on and taking off i have them wear it for a couple hours at a day old and increase. At a couple weeks old i begin to teach to halter lead first by hand in stall or pen, when they understand what the pressure means i begin with a lead still in a stalll or pen and when i feel confident the foal knows what i want i will begin in a bigger area like the pasture or yard.i teach them to pick up their feet as soon as they have the balance to do so and hold for 5-10 seconds by the end of their first week and touch them everywhere and do everything you plan to do to them fight from the start (fingers in ears, rub eyes, in nostrils, in mouth, put empty cleaned wormer syringe/tube in mouth to get them used to worming, grab tail rub belly grab teats if filly, man parts if colt.) clippers at a couple months old and trailer in and out at a couple months old. This has worked for me! all my babies I have had or bought (even at 3 months old when i buy them and have no handling i start as if new born) I have been able to "break" and ride my own babies from day one (whether 2 yrs old like qh or 4 yrs old for my arabs)(first day i saddle i can ride), (and i am by no means near a "professional"trainer!) because they trust me and have been exposed to alot!
JUST MY OPINION,BUT I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE IT WITH YOU! |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 43
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 08:35 pm: |
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If you live in the northern hemisphere you can use constellation names like Orion, Cygnus, Draco, Gemini, Hydra or Leo since they are two of the prominant constellations seen between 2 and 4 am on January 18th, or theres always Dipper (for big dipper). Just a thought, probably not too origional, but whatever... |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 45
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2006 - 08:40 pm: |
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OOPS! posted under wrong heading i apologize! |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 23
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2006 - 08:45 pm: |
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Deena,
You know, I have been truly blessed. So blessed I'm secretly terrified something will go horribly wrong. I'm not typically a nervous person, but am just shy of neurotic right now, specifically about my mare and him.
Last night, saw him (on the nanny cam)take a bit of a tumble when he tried to get up....legs went the wrong way...he went head/neck first into the corner of the stall and couldn't get up. All I could hear on the baby monitor was this screaming sound (like you were gutting a live rabbit or something). I don't think I've every run so fast in my life...no shoes, in my jammies. He was fine, but I was shaken. |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 47
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 08:11 am: |
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oh how terrible!!!!
boy why do we do this to ourselves? |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 216
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 08:43 am: |
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Heather your just being a great mom (hugs)Try to remember we can omly watch at times.Things will and do happen all we can do is the best we can.Try to enjoy this as much as you can they dont stay little long .You look out to pasture and see your little one all grown up but youll all ways see your little baby looking back. |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 24
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 11:07 am: |
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Thank you so much. Your words made me a bit teary, they are too true. It would be prudent of me to turn off the tv and baby monitor now, and trust that he will be fine....
My mare has found her true calling, and is a wonderful momma. |
wanda kelley
Neonate
Username: Wandak
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 21, 2006 - 09:29 pm: |
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I have a mare expecting on may 13. Here is a picture of her at seven months. I dont know what to expect but doing alot of reading so hopefully I am ready for this wonderful experience. My mare has had 2 babies befor i got her. So i hope she will do what horses are suppose to do. My biggest worry is to many people with to much advice and wanting to do it there way. I board my horse the owners are pretty cool but the other boarders act like know it alls in a bad way. I love the advice if I ask for it. How do I know where i board is a good place for my mare to have her baby? Is three flakes of orchard grass two times a day to much when we work her for about 20 mintues every day? we also give her 4 pounds of a grain alfalfa wet cobb mix once a day. I love this forum so much advice and answers. Pls see picutres if she looks right for 7 months along. thanks allhttp://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/dauntlessangel/Hpim0050.jpg |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 59
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 12:00 am: |
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Wanda, your mare is beautiful. I love her color. some horse people can be very frustrating I know. some think they always know more than you and know what is best for your mare. But hang in there. You know your mare and if you keep your vets advice you should do just fine. There are a lot of people here on this board that can help wonders. I have learned a lot since being a member. As far as feeding goes there are so many different things peopl can do. I am sure you will get a lot of good advice. I can not help much on this subject as I am still trying to develop my own feeding routin. We are feeding free graze coastal, alfalfa in the morning and sweet feed with Forco mixed it in the evenings. I have heard a lot of a bran mash but have never tried it. I have a mare due to foal in April. I will say I don't think anyone could ever learn enough. And I am always open to advice. Just the fact you are here asking questions means you are a good horse owner and horse mother this foaling thing can make you go nuts so hang in there and be sure to keep us posted as to her progress. |
Jenn
Weanling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 12:15 am: |
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Hi Wanda, your horse looks great. I am soooo envious, you have green grass. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada and we have a whole lot of snow right now. I have some mares that are due to foal starting around the end of May and so they have bellies pretty similar to your mares.
I find with a lot of advice just nod and smile. As for people wanting to do it their way, stick to your guns, she is your horse.
In regards to the quantity of feed, just keep an eye on your mares condition and that can tell you more than any person. |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 38
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 10:09 am: |
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Wanda...she is gorgeous! My maiden mare is due in early April and she is my first pregnancy. Your mare looks well fed. I asked my vet the samed feed questions. His recommendation: Until the last three months, her amount of feed shouldn't change from what she was on prior. The nutrition content is more important and I do not know anything about the type you are feeding. If it is a standard diet for maintaining a horse in your area, it is probably fine. The last three/two months when the baby is really growing, he recommended I kick it up a little and I am using a Purina feed specifically for lactating and nursing mares. He also said she would probably stop eating as much at one time (which she did) and I would need to feed her smaller portions more times per day (which I do). Once the foal is on the ground and nursing, she may need as much as twice the feed she was on prior to keep up with the physial drain of nursing - again, several times per day (which I will)!
You are in the right place to get answers. I found that in reading the old posts, someone else had pretty much asked the same questions I needed to. The dates may be last year, but the answers are still very current. Keep us posted with her progress! |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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Wanda your mare is beautiful and looks the perfect size for 7 months along. Your in the right place everyone is wonderful about sharing here and you will get great advice when asked for and none if not asked for. This is a forum of higher learning you might say! Here are some updated pictures of my mares, the sorrel is a maiden and due mid March, she was palpated last month and still infoal. She is 17 hands tall and long bodied and I thought for sure she was open, but she hides it well. Both mares are due within a week of each other.
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/b6c560a9.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/f562d67c.jpg[/IMG] |
Kris Moos
Weanling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 50
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 04:14 pm: |
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Wanda, your mare does look well fed, i would not be too concerned about that, and with green grass it makes it a bit easier ( i too am envious, i live in central Minnesota and we are blanketed with snow also!)
but as others have said the last 3 months you may need to increase grain and or hay, but if your vet knows your mare he ultimately will be the best advice for what is reccomended.
My mare is due late march and I feed 5 pound of a nutrena mare and foal feed, 1 pound of endurance (high fat and vitimin mineral content), 1/2 pound sweet grain to add texture and then 2 cups alfalfa pettes( to add flavor to encourage her to eat) soaked in warm water with 6 cups of bran, this is split inhalf and fed 2X daily. She also gets free choice to round bales of mixed hay (timothy, broam, orchard grass, alfalfa and clover) my vet says she is "a healthy weight" ( i think hes just being nice and saying fat!)
heres her photo at approx. 9 months [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/ef25b9e4.jpg[/IMG]
since the photo (last week ) she has dropped a bit, baby centered itself up...finally ...she was pretty lopsided for a while there. |
Jan H (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 06:18 pm: |
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Kris she looks a very good weight you want a little weight on their bones, just wait until she has the foal and starts lactating, that will melt the pounds right off of her fast. keep the extra feed going while she is nursing, they can lose weight very fast before you know it they look too thin.. |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 39
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 07:44 pm: |
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Jan - How far along are your girls? My maiden mare is 9 months and doing a great job of hiding it. I have included her last month picture, but there is almost no change for this month. I also dropped in a picture of her at the breeder's barn. I have to keep looking at the difference of her before and after and not other mares to reassure myself she is doing fine. http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=Dreamin12-05.jp g |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 68.45.224.165
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 08:57 pm: |
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Kathee,She is a very pretty mare and looks like the stallion is a good match. Your maiden looks about the same as mine, my mare is 17 hands tall and is 3 and a half years old, I just had her palpated to make sure she was still in foal and she is. She is 9 months gestation here
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/27771dc7.jpg[/IMG]
She is bred to him
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/b99bcf70.gif[/IMG] |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 41
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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Jan-I love big horses and I don't think I have ever actually seen a non draft 17hh horse. What is her breed? My girl is just a little over 15hh and just turned 6. I have a Quarter Horse Palomino gelding out of the Impressive line (he is HYPP neg) that is over 16hh, but not close to 17hh.
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(Message edited by katheekj on January 22, 2006) |
Jan H. (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 69.253.11.21
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 07:49 am: |
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Well Kathee, she was a surprise to me also, She is an Appendex mare Mother full TB Father QH Her mother is only 15.2 and her father is only 15.3 so where her size came from I have no idea! She must be a throwback from somewhere in her Dams line. |
Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 52
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 08:22 am: |
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Jan- thank you for saying she is not too round...seh does have a 3/4 inch crease doen her back though, but i guess like you sid she will trim up while nursing! She is a very easy keeper, she gets only pasture late april through mid december ,then normally when not in foal she gets approx 1/2 pound grain just because others get some (to keep her happy, we tend to do that dont we?)
Boy your mare is hiding her baby well..but as big as she is she has a lot of room!
Kathee- your mare is pretty, is she a light buckskin or a grey (it is hard to tell by the photo) she looks to be carrying all up front in comparison to her pre photo. My mare and yours are due at around the same tiome...the race is on! (conflicting dates, every site i have gone on to determine her due date they are all different, ranging from march 23 to april 6, we will just have to wait and see!) |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 114
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:56 am: |
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Wander - your mare is lovely - she looks in good condition too. I am still trying to find my feet with my girl so I cant really advise im afraid. She has good green pasture too so at the moment she is on alfa chaff and has just began her stud mix, she has some cider vinegar and some carrots thrown in but thats it! She is a very easy keeper, the only danger I have right now is making her too fat!
Kathee, I love the colour of your mare - Im quite jealous, after starting all of this I have now decided I would really love a buckskin QH - Not too many of them round here though
Goos luck All! |
Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 57
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:20 am: |
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Kim-arent buckskins the best?
just to make you jealous i want to share with you a photo of my buttermilk buckskin dun roan [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5231.jpg[/IMG]
she is 9 months old today!
my mare is bred to her daddy! |
Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 58
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 11:37 am: |
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my mare is beginning to change shapes again, belly is lower yet, not lopsided anymore and she actually ran in the pasture yesterday!!! (has not done that for quite awhile).
her bag is really beginning to form, nnot filling really just hanging and getting thickened.
baby is active and moving, I actually got to feel it kick ...HARD, it made Tsaharah (my mare) squeal and pin her ears!
updated photos and stallion at http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5231.jpg.
2 months to go... |
Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 59
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:08 pm: |
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wrong link try this
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5343.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5344.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 115
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:14 pm: |
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Thats a great photo - shes a lovely colour too.
Wow , that belly has grown hasnt it - from the back she looks huge... Ive still 4 months to go, i really really really cant wait. Why do they hav esuch long gestations! |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 43
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 12:39 pm: |
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Kris - she is a light buckskin. I breed her from April 23-30. Sounds like you were right with me. Our "official" date is April 11 although I hear maidens are known for going early. I can't believe the size difference between the two. I can still barely see my girl's belly from the back view. I guess it is like people, no two pregnancies are the same.
Your buckskin is gorgeous. Did you say she is 9 months old? She is really filled out well!
Kim - I understand that a homozygous bay bred to a cremello will produce a buckskin 100% of the time!
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Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 61
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 05:18 pm: |
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Kathee- i bred my mare april 14 - 28th.
about my filly, thanks and yes she is 9 months! , she is very filled out, she stands 13.2 hands, and i have not pushed her to grow, we actually are limiting her protien because she grew too fast too young, (vet came out 3 weeks apart and she had outgrown a weanling halter that was too big the first visitin that amount of time (she was only 3 months old), she is the sweetest baby ever!!!
she will let the cats ride her, she lays down and my daycare kids can climb all over her, you can lead her by her chin, no halter no lead, she is a doll!
Kim- how can they grow so fast and not explode, that is a 1 week change, what will 2 more months do?
4 months...ugh, i am glad i only have 2, i cleaned out her space in the barn today, tomarrow i will get her stall set and start getting her used to that. well wait together! |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 22
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 07:34 pm: |
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Hi everyone,
Our 2nd mare delivered last night right on her due date but I checked and nothing went up to the house and came back 1/2 hour later to find a dead HUGE palomino/roan colt. Blood everywhere. Very depressing! Took the mare in today and had the placenta removed and had her flushed, its her first baby so she is taking it really well (better than us- thats for sure) Guess its all part of breeding, going to lose one every now and then, still very sad.  Next one is due the begining of Feb. I will let you know when it gets here. |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 44
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 08:24 pm: |
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Tansy - that is terrible. I cannot even imagine how you are feeling. My prayers are with you. I am glad the momma is doing ok. I understand the placenta complication, any idea what the complication was for the baby?
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Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 23
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 09:31 pm: |
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Not sure, If I was able to get there sooner if I would have been able to save it, looked to me like premature rupture of the umbilical cord, but vet said could have tied it off with fishing line?? But of course it didn't help I was too late anyway. Thanks for your thoughts...it means a lot. |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 27
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 09:47 pm: |
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Hello,
How can I list my mare on this site for you all to see her?My mare is due April 20,2006
Melissa |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 60
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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Melissa, you can creata a free photobucket account and just copy and past the link of the picture on here. Go to www.photobucket.com and you can upload the pictures. can't wait to see pictures of her. |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 61
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:40 pm: |
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Tansy, so sorry to hear about your loss. I am just starting our breeding operation and I am terrified this will happen to us soon. I sure hope I can handle it well. Hang in there and I hope your next mare delivers a big beautiful healthy foal. |
Emma
Breeding Stock
Username: Emma
Post Number: 117
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 06:45 am: |
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Tansy, I can completly relate to you and i know how you feel. I lost my mare and foal only 3 weeks ago from foaling complications and i still get upset when i think about it. Time will heal the pain. I am just glad that your mare is doing well. My thoughts are with you! |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 45
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:42 am: |
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Emma - I somehow missed you loss. It is truly my worst nightmare to lose both. I am soooooo sorry. |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 29
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 07:41 pm: |
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Kassie,
I was trying to get a picture of my mare on
www.photobucket.com but it says someone is using my email address already. I email the contact person to see what we can do about it. I will try to send pictures once they fix the problem.
Thank you
melissa |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 63
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 08:34 pm: |
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melissa you could get a free Hotmail account to open a photobucket account. That is if the other does not work out. Oh the mare we bought and where thinking about naming her Fancy, I got in contact with her previous owners and found out her name is Dallas, so that is what we are going to call her. Just thought I would update everone. lol |
Emma
Breeding Stock
Username: Emma
Post Number: 118
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 08:32 am: |
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Thanks Kathee, it has put me off the mare side of breeding completly. We will now just stand our stallion at public stud. I actually had all the postings on another thread here, so thats probably why you missed it. Everyone on here is great for support had a lot of emails and a a lot of well wishes. It was very comforting |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 12:34 am: |
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Tansy & Emma,
I am so sorry for all you have gone through, and certainly understand it well. Years ago, I lost a foal (filly) due to uterine intertia. The year later it happened again to the same mare, but I was there to pull the foal. If I hadn't been there we'd have lost that one too.
It knocked me off the mare/foal wagon until last year....which was about a 14 year span.
I was fortunate this year that foaling went well, but the past several days have been a very rocky road. I've had some problems with my mare and her now 8 day old foal.
Multiple vet visits, and a hospitalization...
I'm hoping we are on the real mend. But, I'd be fooling you if I said I haven't been terrified for Grace or her new foal Buddy. |
Emma
Breeding Stock
Username: Emma
Post Number: 119
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 06:58 am: |
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Heather thank you, We actually lost two foals this year and our best mare so it has been a shocker of a year. We bought our stallion half way through the breeding season and he was trucked to us which was a 4 day trip, he got a serious lung infection on the trip down and it wasn't looking to flash for him for a while there. I need to have a break it has been a terrible breeding season for us and i am dreading foaling down our mares (the few we are keeping for riding, they were put in foal B4 this all happened) this coming breeding season.
I hope that one day i will be able to look at breeding my own mares again. You are very brave Heather! Good Luck! |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 24
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 12:17 pm: |
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Thank-you everyone for being so understanding. I am very sad to have lost the foal but I am also dreading the rest of them coming now. Six more spread out over the next few months. Praying that everything goes normal, only two more maiden mares thank god. I don't know if I can go through it again. Emma, that must be so devastating to have also lost a mare, at least with the foal you never got to know it, but to lose a mare would be like losing a member of the family, I am very sorry for your luck this year, maybe the rest of the year will bring you nothing but perfect foalings. |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 03:25 pm: |
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Hello Kassie,
I was able to set of my account with www.photobucket.com
I put my black and white mare with her 2005 colt on this site. I will try to put a new picture of her pregnany for 2006 on there soon.
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Thanks everyone
MELISSA |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 118
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 06:24 am: |
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Oh melissa - little man is adorable - I love the photo with hima nd his mummy : )
The grey you have on there is nice too. lovely pictures |
Kris Moos
Yearling
Username: Kris
Post Number: 75
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 07:54 am: |
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melissa- ADORABLE PICS!!!! |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 67
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:13 am: |
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Melissa, your mare and colt are BEAUTIFUL. I love the mare and foal laying down together. SO cute. I bet you can't wait to see what she will have this next time around, especially after that beauty of a colt. |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 36
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 08:55 pm: |
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Thank you all for saying nice things about my horses. I hope the foal born this year is just as cute as Little Man. Annie the black and white tobiano mare was breed to a solid bay breeding stock paint stud for this year. Annie is due in April 2006. I will send you all pictures of the new foal when he or she arrives. I would like to see you all foals pictures as well.
Take care,
MELISSA |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 32
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 09:32 pm: |
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Melissa,
Your Little Man is much too cute! I can't wait to see what you mare will have this year. Any of your mini's due??
Here are new pics of Grace and baby.
photo of Grace & baby at 4 days:
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010038-2.jpg[/IMG]
baby at 10 days:
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010049-2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010043-2.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1010056-2.jpg[/IMG] |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 37
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 09:37 pm: |
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Hello,
I came across some pictures of Annie pregnant in 2005 with Little Man. I posted them on the site. I also put a picture of LittleMan first few moments trying to stand for the first time. I took pictures today of Annie pregnant for 2006 I will post them soon. Annie was a few weeks from having Little Man in this pictures.Notice in the picture of Annie pregnant of 2005, you can see the milk vein on the side of her body.
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Buddy is my daughter's barrel horse gelding.
Take care,
Melissa |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 38
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 09:58 pm: |
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Heather,
Gracie and her dam are soooo cute as well. What type of horses are they? What color is Gracie? Do you have any paints horses? Where do you all live? We live in Mississippi. Our weather is up and down here. One day it is in the 30's and the day up in the 68's. I hope you all are not going thur this weather. I didn't think to take a picture of the udder. I will try to do that this time. My mini mare Cricket is in foal to gray stud due in May 2006. This will be our first mini foal born here. Little Man was our first foal born on our place. I have been enjoying having him alot. Little Man is like one of my children. Is Gracie your first foal as well? Do you have any other mares due this year? Annie is breed to a solid bay breeding stock paint Tazz for this year 2006 my husband's ideal. My husband want to see what we could end up with. The stud Tazz sire is black and white overo and dam was palomino. My mare Annie parents were both black and white tobiano. What color foal do you think Annie and Tazz will have?Go back to the site to see Annie pregnant for 2005.
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses |
Kathee McGuire
Weanling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 50
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:00 pm: |
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Heather - they are both just gorgeous! Are they both doing well now? I know you have had a bit of a time with them.
Melissa - I hope I can get a picture of my two (if he/she ever actually arrives) laying down together. I have bred to a black/white paint that has thrown black/white paints 50% of the time. I am hoping for my own version of your Little Man! |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 39
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:14 pm: |
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Kathee,
What color is your mare? Is the stud you breed your horse to homozygous gene?My mare Annie was breed to sorrel and white tobiano in 2005 to produce Little Man. Little Man is mostly homozygous for the tobiano gene as well. The vet has not done a test, but we think he might be. I am looking forward to breeding him in the future.I knew last year I was going to have tobiano paint foal, because the stud I breed Annie was homozygous for tobiano gene. This stud breed to any mares produces tobiano foals. I want to breed to him this past year, but I couldn't get Annie up there. Plus Little Man was my first foal born here.I didn't want to send him off. We brought a stud last year to breed Annie to, then we sold him to a lady who later gelded him. Annie will have his only register foal. I hope everything goes well with Annie foal this year.I took alot of pictures before I got the picture of them laying together. I just put another picture of Annie and Little Man first few moments on the site. I will put update pictures of Little Man soon.Little Man will be a year old in April 2006.I have not burn the pictures to cd yet of the ones I have taken lately.
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Take CARE,
Melissa |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 27, 2006 - 10:34 pm: |
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Melissa,
Thank you so much. I am very proud of both of them. Grace is actually the mare!! The baby is a stud colt <snicker>...he is quite pretty though!
Grace is a seal brown mare, and her foal is as well. She is a bit dusty in the pictures, and it makes her color look a bit funny.
I don't personally have paints, but a friend of mine breeds and shows them. Darn near got into paints, but when I was looking...there just wasn't a good selection at the time...or they were WAY out of my $$ range. I do love them though.
Kathee,
Thank you!! I am happy to say that they are both doing well now. With all hopes, it will stay that way, and I can really start to enjoy all of this. I have been so worried and sleep deprived this past week, that I probably need Gastrogard. I am so pleased with him that I just can't get past wanting to pinch myself!
It will be fun waiting for everyone else's mares to have the foals. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 51
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 09:04 am: |
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Melissa - We are in Theodore, Alabama, just across the Mississippi/Alabama line on the coast (outside of Mobile)- I can relate to the weather changes. Where in Mississippi are you? Here is a link to my mare Sweet Dreams and the stallion. She is 8 months pregnant in the picture taken last month. She doen't show much unless you look at her before picture. I want to get her 9 month pic out there, but with the rain we have had, she is a muddy mess and it is to cold to wash her. http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=Dreamin12-05.jp g
He homozygous for black, but not Tobiano. Only once has he thrown a solid black...every other time it is a black and white combination with 50% being Tobiano and usually with more color than he displays. I have always been partial to buckskins, duns and paints so I was thrilled to find my mare. My original plan was to choose horses that were also good for my children (ages from 9 to 15) and I purchased a great bay and a palomino. When I came across Dream, I really had to change my plan because she requires an advanced rider. She has been my joy! What would complete it would be if she threw a paint baby! |
melissa
Weanling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 41
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, January 29, 2006 - 04:45 pm: |
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Heather,
I am sorry I got your horse name wrong early. Both of your horses are so cute. I hope the colt is doing well. My stud colt is almost a year old in April 2006, he is so sweet. We imprinted him at birth. Did you imprint your foal at birth?
Kathee,
You have very nice horses. Do you own the stud as well? Your stud looks almost like my stud colt but black and white. My stud colt is bay and white tobiano. I hope you have a paint as well. I hope we have a paint this year too. When is your mare due? My mare is due April 2006. We live about 10 miles from Jackson, MS. I like the buckskin, paints, palomino as well. I love all colors horses. I have love horses since I was a small child. We have own horses about 3 yrs now. I love watching them run in the pasture.
Take care,
melissa |
Jan H
Nursing Foal
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 15
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 12:42 pm: |
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Here is a not so good picture of my mare she is at 9 1/2 months gestation, she may just explode in the next month and a half giggle
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/f20586f8.jpg[/IMG] |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 52
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 02:38 pm: |
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Heather - Thank you. I do not own the stud; he is owned by a friend of mine. Depending on which chart I use, she is due the end of March or the beginning of April. She was bred April 23-30.
Jan - you are right...she will bust open soon! She looks huge compared to her first pics. I am posting an updated pic of my mare. I was expecting an obvious change from her 8th month to her 9th month, but the only real change in the pics is that my pasture looks terrible now!
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=Dream01-27-06.j pg |
Jan H
Nursing Foal
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 16
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 08:26 pm: |
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Kathee I can see a difference by the way she is carrying. My girl did not have that much of a change until toward the end of the 9th month then she blossomed. I am sure the same will happen to her, I believe you said she was a maiden mare too, is that right? Well my maiden mare has not grow hardly at all in the last month she still looks like she is open even though I had her palpated last month and she is still in foal. so you just never know. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 55
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 30, 2006 - 09:00 pm: |
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Jan - yes, she is a maiden. If she didn't have all the other pregnant things going on...moody, swollen mamory glands, rubbing her rear end, etc... I would have her palpated again. I can see a big difference from when she was bred. I just expected her to be bigger. But hey, maybe she's one of these that stays so tight she springs back into shape immediately after foaling! I have a friend who gives birth like that... she's really irritating. |
Angeka B (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 64.112.198.133
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 09:25 pm: |
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Hello Everyone
I have a question I had this mare palpation in Nov and they said that she was about 7mo along. See I just get her in sept and she started do gain alot of weight fast so I had her palpat but now she doesn't look as fat as she should. Does she look like she in-foal and if so how far away would you say she could be.
Thank you
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=ecd6&.src=ph&store=&prodid= &.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 60
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 - 10:20 pm: |
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Angela - Has she ever foaled before? If not, maiden mares tend to stay small. Here are two links from this tread that show maiden mares at 9 months. Both look about like your girl. You might want to look for some other signs like changes in her mamory glands, not finishing her feed, etc. Also, you usually can feel the baby move at 9 months. You can place your hand between her flank and her nipples when she is eating her feed. Most babies are active while the mare eats. Sometimes you have to rest it there a while to get used to what her regular breathing feels like. Before it's over, you will probably feel a little kick - sometimes you can see a little kick. It takes patience.
This is Jan's girl http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/27771dc7.jpg
This is mine
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=Dream01-27-06.j pg |
Angela B (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 207.190.160.2
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 09:26 am: |
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Hello Kathee
What I know about her breeding history is that she had 4 foals and that she is 5 years old. And this would be her 5th foal. I know that when i get her she road great for me and know she act like it killing her to ride so i have stop riding her and I up her gain just a little. She is a Twh and is very fine bone as well so. How far along would you say she would? I just don't want to to foal out in the pastern because she in for 4 other horse . Her udder look a little bigger then they where when I get her home but people have been telling me that it could be that she going to go into heat. Any help would be great. Oh she is only 14.3hh tall |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 62
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 04:48 pm: |
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Angela- It is really hard to say without knowing the mare because they can have very indivudualized pregnancies. If she is in foal, she is probably at least a couple months away. If you have real concerns, you may want to call the vet again. Did the previous owners indicate whether or not she showed much before? She has the "round" look to her, do you have any pics from when you first got her? You said she gained a lot of weight, was she in poor condition or did she just start packing on weight? The vets can be wrong, but they are usually right with the palpatation. |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 1
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 09:54 pm: |
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On the link is the pictures of her from July "old owner took them." The old owner doesn't know anything about her pregnancies and the first owner will not anwser my question about the possible of her being in-foal or how she was when she foals. Thank you for your input. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 22
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 11:41 pm: |
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How about some updated pictures of the pregnant mares let's show them off in all of their glory. Here is one of my mares at 300 days. lets see yours!
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/b17a69be.jpg[/IMG] |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 51
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 06:09 pm: |
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Here are some updated pictures of my two pregnant mares. One is Annie the black and white tobiano mare the other is the mini bay Cricket.
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
MELISSA |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 64
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 06:52 pm: |
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Jan - she is getting there! Will these babies ever arrive?
Melissa - they are all beautiful, but the mini's are too cute. They are as wide as they are tall! |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 2
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 09:36 pm: |
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They are all so pretty. |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 37
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 10:06 pm: |
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This is going to sound rather foolish, but I kinda miss having my mare in foal. So, I will have to live vicariously through all of you!
On the other hand, so GLAD it is over! Grace's foal is a little over 2 weeks old, and is growing like a weed. Take lots of pics!! They change every day. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 103
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 - 07:05 am: |
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heather-how is he doing after the health probs to start? |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 39
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 12:45 am: |
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Kris,
I am happy to be able to say he is doing well. It is terrifying to have problems with newborns. I don't remember the last time I'd been so stressed. Having to load up a mare and 2 day old foal (and then again at 4 days), is not something I care to repeat anytime soon. They just seem SO fragile at that age!
However, all has ended well. He looks good, and is a very colty-colt. Oh, and how handsome!
There have been some problems with turning my mare and him out. The weather has been the pits, rainy and wet. Even wit all the grass, he slid all over....now has his first wounds (minor), knocking some hair off his head...no front view head shots for a while .
He will be 3 weeks tomorrow....hard to believe. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 106
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 06:50 am: |
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wow, 3 weeks already...where does the time go?!?!?! I am so glad to hear he is doing well. I suppose he runs around his stall like a mad man...hopefully soon the weather will cooperate and hell be able go out and play again!!! those battle wounds heal...besides he will soon shed that baby hair. well good luck to you and him! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 23
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 08:01 am: |
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Lets try this, how about posting before and after shots of our pregnant mares
Jade before
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/jadeat5months.jpg[/IMG]
Jade after at 300 days
[IMG]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/b17a69be.jpg[/IMG]
I can not believe the difference. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 24
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 08:10 am: |
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Heather, so glad your little boy is doing alright, I would love to see some updated pic's of him and momma, they were so pretty.
Melissa, that is a pretty tobiano mare you have she looks like a black and white cookie and I bet she is twice as sweet! |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 27
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - 08:05 pm: |
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Here is my next mare Due. This is Indy, she is 334 days today and is not waxing but has a full bag, VERY uncomfortable and her back legs are all swollen. She is AQHA by Boomernicker and bred to our our palomino stallion. Hoping for a buckskin!
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e214/tansybrassfield/LilyIndy2-8-06014.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e214/tansybrassfield/LilyIndy2-8-06013.jpg[/IMG] |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 26
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 08:09 am: |
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Tansey she looks great! She is a pretty mare. I guess a colt with her. but might be wrong hard to guess when they are already dropped in preparation for delivery. i just hope for an uneventful delivery and a healthy strong foal. I can not wait to see these foals born! Excitement abounds! Heck I have a 50/50 shot of being right giggle. |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:26 am: |
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Last night our mare Indy delivered a perfect smokey black colt. Unfortunatly when we went down to feed it was dead. When I checked on her last night there was no impending foaling signs at all. This is the 2nd baby we have lost allready this year and we are getting pretty sad and pushing me towards not wanting to breed. I realize this is all part of breeding but find it very weird to lose two and it is only the 10th of Feb!! Please wish me luck for the rest of our babies to be healthy, we have five left this year. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 68
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 02:27 pm: |
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Tansy - I am so sorry! It sound like they were both beautiful babies. You must be heart broken. We will remember you in our prayers and ask for the next 5 deliveries to produce completely heathly babies and mommies. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 117
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 02:33 pm: |
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Tansy, I too am sorry for your loss! I hope the next five deliveries are healthy happy and uneventful for babies and new moms as well as yOU! |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 61
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 02:51 pm: |
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Tansy, I am sorry to hear about your loss. My friend lost some foals due the pest control strayed on the fence line. Does your neighbor put anything on the fences? Do you all live where it is very cold? Did you give the west nile shot? I have another friend who lost her mares and foals suppose to the west nile shots. We don't know for sure if that is what did it. I will have the vet check your mares to make sure everything is okay. I will be thinking of you for your next foals. I hope all goes well. We lost a filly last year from cancer of all things. The vet did a check her all over, she had cancer. The vet was so surprise to see it in a young filly. We had only had the filly 2 weeks, before she got sick. The first signs was just a running nose. The filly nose got real bad. The x-ray her teeth to make sure it was not a bad tooth. But in the end the vet said he thinks it was cancer. The filly had all signs of just a cold, so beware of any changes in your horses.The hardest part of lossing a horse is my daughter is the one who owned the filly we lost last year. A 11 year just don't understand why, if you know what I mean.I hope if you have any children they understand.I tell my children everything happens for a reason we just don't know why.
Take care,
Your in my prayers,
MELISSA |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 63
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 03:11 pm: |
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Tansy,
You have some nice horses.
You can see my horses on
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Dixiegirl is the new horse, she is skinny. The previous owner didn't care about her.
MELISSA |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 64
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 03:17 pm: |
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Jan, YOU GUESS TANSY FOAL RIGHT.CAN YOU GUESS WHAT MY MARES ARE GOING TO HAVE?
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Annie the black and white tobiano and
the mini Cricket are due this 2006
Thanks MELISSA |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 122
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 05:08 pm: |
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Jan- updated photo of my mare...still say colt? (she is now 290 days)
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5407.jpg[/IMG]
Thanks Kris |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 30
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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Tansey I am so sorry about your loss did you have a necropsy done on the foal to find out why it died? Did it make it out of the sack? That has got to be so hard for you! ((((((((((((Hugs))))))) I hope and pray all of your other mares foal without a hitch and each is born strong and healthy!
Melissa, I guess that cricket is going to have a colt and a filly from your paint I have a 50% chance of being right on one of them Giggle. Hope they are born happy and healthy and strong!
Kris yes I still stand by my guess of a colt for your horse, these ladies are looking more and more beautiful! |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 09:12 am: |
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tansey i'm sorry to hear about your lost. I will keep you in my prayer.
Jan what do you think my mare will have?
Update- My mare now has a very small bag and after lunging her it does down. So I think she around 9 1/2 to 10 mo along. . |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 29
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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Thanks for all of your support. I am not sure why the 2nd foal died, I really think it has to do with the mother, she is maiden and next to another maiden mare ( who was the last one to lose her baby) and they are inseperatable! I can't even take one out of sight of the other without them going crazy. I am not sure how to handle this again next year, since I tried to put them in stalls across from each other and they went nuts, so I had to put them back next to each other, fearing that they would hurt their pregnancy. I don't know if I should have left them in a pasture to foal or what I should do next year. Both these babies where worth quite a lot and I can't take the chance of taking such a loss again next year. Let me know if anyone has had any similiar experiences with inseperatable mares. Thanks again for all your support... |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 67
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 11:56 am: |
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Jan H.
When you guess on my mares pregnants did you look at Annie pregnant pictures of last year. Annie had a colt in 2005. The pictures of Annie pregnant last year was right before she foaled. The picture of the Annie this year she is about 8 to 9 months.Cricket is about 7-8 months pregnant.When do I need to send another picture of the pregnant so you can guess again.What are you looking for when you guess? Cricket stomach looks like a basketball and Annie is more rounded. Annie is always rounded.
Thanks MELISSA |
Renae Brumley
Neonate
Username: Renaecd
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 12:30 pm: |
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Hey everyone! I am pretty new to the board, although I have put up a couple posts...
Here are some pics of my APHA breeding stock mare, Misty. Hope the link works!
http://photobucket.com/albums/e4/RenaeCD/
These were taken about a week ago when she was at about 350 days. Croup muscles starting to slowly relax...no bag built yet at all! How fast can that happen? In a couple of hours? Just wondering! These pics were taken out in the roundpen during her exercise time! She is in a 12 foot by 24 foot stall with straw and a run (I close her in her stall at night).
She is 12 and has had three foals before this (all before I got her). This will be my first baby! All of her foals have been greys... Is grey a dominant color? Anyone know? She was bred to a black AQHA stallion, a grandson of Dash for Perks. Anyone care to guess what her foal might be (colt/filly?)? 
Thanks for any replies!! |
Jenn
Yearling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 89
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 01:40 pm: |
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Hello Renea. I will try to explain the gray gene to you. When a horse carries the gray gene it will show, so yes it is dominant. The way the gray gene works is that a horse is born a color (black, bay, sorrel, whatever) and the gray gene will turn hairs white. If a horse is homozygous for gray, they will always pass on the gray gene to offspring, if heterozygous for gray 50% of the offspring should carry the gene and therefore be gray. If she has had 3 foals and all were gray, she might be homo, but you would have to have her genetically tested, or have a lot more foals from her to know for sure. One quick check for homozygosity for gray is to look at the color of her sire and dam. If one of them was not gray, then she wouldn't be homozygous.
For the heck of it I will guess that she gets a colt. |
Renae Brumley
Neonate
Username: Renaecd
Post Number: 5
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 01:54 pm: |
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Thanks Jenn! The mare's sire was a black/white tobiano and her dam's color is not specified. However, her dam's sire was chestnut and her dam's dam was palomino....no I guess that tells us she is not homozygous! For the gray gene, at what age do the hairs normally turn white? Or does this vary too much from horse to horse to say an average?
There is a blue roan stallion near where I am located that is 100% guaranteed to produce a roan foal. I was considering breeding her to this stallion when the time comes, but was unsure how the color genetics of roan worked with a gray. Would it most likely be just a grey foal with the Rn genes? Well, taking into consideration that we just decided that she was hetero for gray...probably no way to know, huh?
Could anyone tell me how fast she could build a bag? I know some mares don't build one until after foaling...is that typical of non-maiden mares though?
Thanks! |
Jenn
Yearling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 91
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 02:17 pm: |
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Sounds like she is definately not homo for gray. From what I know, the timeline of the graying proccess is different from horse to horse. Also, every gray horse will eventually turn white .I have a mare that was black when I bought her (5 months old) and started to get white hairs immediately after. Here are 2 pictures of her. (she is a tobiano)
2 Years Old
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e284/JennsPaints/Sequel/Sequelattwo.jpg
7 Years Old (last summer)
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e284/JennsPaints/Sequel/SequelandLloyd.jpg
Not a good picture of her, but it shows her color well
If you bred her to the roan stud, the foal would have a 50% chance of being gray, 100% chance of getting the roan gene. The foal with either be gray or roan, and if gray, still carry the roan gene.
As for her bag, there are other on this site far more qualified than I to answer your question. Is there any chance that there is fesue in her hay? Do you know what has happened regarding her udder during previous pregnancies? Sorry I cannot help you with this. |
Renae Brumley
Neonate
Username: Renaecd
Post Number: 6
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 02:33 pm: |
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Wow Jenn! Your mare doesn't even look like the same horse! Beautiful either way though! Thanks for all the info on color genetics.
No, there is no fescue in her hay and unfortunately I don't know anything about her development during previous pregnancies. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 31
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 03:51 pm: |
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Angela she does not look pregnant to me at all, so I would guess a filly if she is pregnant, but she sure does hide it well! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 32
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 03:56 pm: |
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Renee, since she has dropped it is a little more diffecult for me to guess gender, was she way out to the sides or did she carry low and wide? If i had to make a guess at this stage in the game I would have to guess filly.
(Message edited by Jan_H on February 11, 2006) |
Renae Brumley
Neonate
Username: Renaecd
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 04:17 pm: |
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She was not very wide on the sides before she dropped. She seemed to carry lower. Let me know! Thanks! |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2006
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I know she doesn't look like she is infoal but she get a slight bag in the morning by time I work her it goes down. I do know that the owner before said she was a bag of bone when she get and she had to feed her alot just so you could not see her hip bone would not show. |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 71
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2006 - 10:53 pm: |
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We are going to try to take my mare Annie to breed after she foals this year. We have never took her off to breed. We sold our stud last year. What do you all think? We wanted to breed after the foal heat, but the foal will only be about 7-10 days old. Is it okay for the foal and mare to travel short distance at this time? What all do I before she and the foal go to the stud farm?Do I need to worm and shots the mare and foal or what. We didn't give shots to the foal last year until 4 months. The vet refer this farm to us. I just don't like taking a young foal off around other horses. Should we wait until the mare's next cycle to take them or what? We will be taking the mare and foal about 30 min away. Would it be wrong to see if they would consider bringing the the stud here to breed to my mare.I only want to leave the mare and foal one week then pick them up. The stud farm wants her to stay until she going back in heat. I just don't like the ideal of leaving the mare and foal that long. If she don't take the first time, I was thinking of sending her back them. What all do you think about this Help me out?This farm has a palomino and white tobiano stud, bay and white tobiano stud, black and white tobiano and sorrel and white tobiano stud. We have a black and white tobiano name Annie.We were wanting palomino or buckskin foal next time. Which stud should we breed to they all have good blood lines?
See Annie(black and white tobiano mare) on www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Thanks Melissa |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 33
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 12:03 am: |
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Renae, I think I am going to say by the way you said she carried that it is consistant with a colt. but my gut is saying its a filly its a filly...so I am on the fence on this one, but by what you say that she was carrying low then its a colt. but I have to say that my gut is still whispering to me that its a filly. so its a coin toss. looking forward to seeing which is right my gut or the signs hmm I wonder which it will be?
Melissa, what about AI (artificial insemination) with cooled shipped semen? That way you can get her bred, time it on her heat after the foal heat which has a higher success rate and safety rate. and there is no worry about transporting the mare and foal together which is very dangerous. I have done AI for a few years and had good success if you have a equine repro vet do it. its worth its weight in gold. |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 126
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 03:13 pm: |
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I used AI for mine- She is 17 yo, has had one foal prior that I know of and that was 8 years ago with her last owner. She took first time though with chilled and the vet scanned and timed everything for me to go and collect as the stud wouldnt accomodate - We had already missed the 1st heat because they wouldnt collect that day so we discussed it and bought her into heat deliberately for them and then they wouldnt courier the semen to us on a saturday - You try telling your horse what day she is allowed to ovulate and what days she cant! So I drove down to collect it myself and thankfully we wont be repeating the episode |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 125
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 04:30 pm: |
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Melissa- if you are looking for a buckskin you need to breed to a horse with the cream gene, of the stallions listed the only one with a defineate cream gene is the palomino, so I would choose that one. ( a palomino is a red base with a cream gene, buckskin is a bay base with a cream gene, and a grulla is a black base with a cream gene) I hope this helps you out for choosing the stallion. I know that because I had to have some gentetic testing done on my foal from 2005 to see if she was a grulla roan or a buckskin dun roan ( she is the later). I have done some research too because I'm looking to breed for a buckskin, dun, red dun or palomino (thus I bred my chestnut to a buckskin with the dun factor=buckskin dun) so we will wait now to see what she gives... |
Jenn
Yearling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 94
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 04:45 pm: |
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A grulla/grullo is black with the dun gene. Black with the cream gene is smokey black. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 127
Registered: 01-2006
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my mistake!! I forgot to add the dun gene factored in there for the grulla! (But accoding to the dna testing company i used a grulla can too have a cream gene, and usually do otherswise the dun would be unseen onthe black base)
thank you for the correction! |
Jenn
Yearling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 95
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 04:59 pm: |
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Not a problem. From what I know the cream gene on a grula just effects the shade of the body, no cream = darker, cream = same color only lighter. I suppose it would be smokey grulla, just like the cream gene may or may not show on normal black. |
Amber Tedford
Neonate
Username: Amber
Post Number: 3
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 08:55 pm: |
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Just wanted to post some pics of my girl! She is due any day now (we think). The vet estimated Dec 20 '05, but was "a bit off" We didn't have an acurate breeding date on her. There are some pics of her bag also. Let me know what you guys think. I feel like we have been saying "she's going to foal tonight" for 2 months now . Noticed her lips were much more swollen today. Forgive her disheveled look - she had obviously been rolling !
http://photobucket.com/albums/e232/arhorses/ |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 35
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 09:23 pm: |
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Amber, is she a maiden? I think she looks about one to two weeks away. and I guess a filly. She is a pretty girl and I know what ever she has will be the love of your life. she is a pretty mare! Good luck. |
Amber Tedford
Neonate
Username: Amber
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 11:07 pm: |
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Thanks, Jan, I was looking forward to your prediction! You have a pretty girl yourself! Are you expecting or have you already had one? She is a maiden, a first for both of us . If I've learned one thing through all of this, it has been that there are NO consistant signs with which to predict a maiden's foal date .
(Message edited by amber on February 12, 2006) |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 36
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 08:08 am: |
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Thanks Amber yes I have two mares due to foal the first and second week of March. One is a maiden the other has had one previous foal. Keep me updated and let me know what your mare has. So far this year I am standing on 90% accuracy on foal gender prediction. Maidens seem to be the hardest for me to predict, I was off on a maiden at my friends place, of course this girl did not show until the last week she was due to foal. giggle. Hope she has a text book foaling with no complications other than a very strong healthy foal! |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 93
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:15 am: |
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Hey everyone,
Just wanted to show everyone my mare.. she is a long backed mare, but she is WIDE! LOL. she is moody as all get out as you can see. this is a picture from a week or two ago. she is even bigger now. need to take a couple of her today while it is so sunny. cold but sunny.. she lost her plug about two weeks ago so we should not be too far off, but then again...you never know with these mares. Her teats are filling a little but she has not made a signifucant udder yet. She is due March 15th +/-. she is 13 this year. And if the nail test is correct, it is going to be a filly... PLEASE BE A FILLY!!!filly fairy, filly fairy, filly fairy. LOL |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 231
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:19 am: |
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Beverly wheres the pics?I wanna see.Deena |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 94
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:24 am: |
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DUH HUH!!!!! maybe it would help if i posted the pics huh! LOL Thanks Deena!! sorry everyone...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/2253890730060158556TUboIt |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 232
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:32 am: |
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Oh beverly shes a doll a very pretty girl indeed.
Whats her name? |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 130
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:44 am: |
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she is pretty, she looks like she is no longer enjoying this pregnancy thing!!!
hopefully soon! |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 95
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:10 am: |
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Thank You! That is not a very good picture of her..I will have to find a really good ne and send it to you!
her registered name is Jewels Finale. I call her Natalie.. That is what she was called since birth and she knows her name well. LOL. I can't wait to see what she is going to have here is a picture of the stallion she was bred to...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/2643717050060158556HbEuYw
more of her...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/2810494280060158556eHAIwQ
http://community.webshots.com/photo/2840578200060158556VtwYTD
http://community.webshots.com/photo/2884635740060158556QjVlAE
I am really proud of her... she is my doll baby.. even though she had foundered before we bought her. we have made it possible that she can actually have some light riding done.. she will die here at my place. she has her forever home...
Thanks! |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 233
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:28 am: |
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Oh boy is Natalies baby gonna have some crome or what!Beverly I cant blame ya one bit about being excited over foaling time yall are gonna have one pretty baby.What ya gonna name the baby dream. |
Amber Tedford
Neonate
Username: Amber
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:53 am: |
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Beverly, she is a beauty indeed! It seems that that ones that have had the roughest time hold a special place in our hearts. I can relate as we had a mare lose an eye about 2 years ago. Couldn't have happened to a better horse, though. Lol, she doesnt seem to know she only has one eye. We'll probably breed her this year and are currently looking for a stud. Natalie sure is lucky to have found you. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 37
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 11:03 am: |
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Bev she sure looks like she is carrying a filly to me. She looks like she is softening at the croup too. and that belly looks to be in a v formation does not look like it gonna be any longer then a week or two away. Let us know what she has. Heres hoping she has a pretty spotted filly for you! (well after seeing the stallion) she cant help but give you a pretty spotted foal LOL Is she a maiden?
(Message edited by jan_h on February 13, 2006) |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 131
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 11:33 am: |
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WOW! the baby is bound to be a bomb!!! both mare and sire are beautiful!! nice heads, builds!!! best of luck for an uneventful foaling!!! WE WANT PICS IMMEDIATELY! |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 70
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 02:33 pm: |
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Beverly - she is a beauty and looks happier in the 2nd set of photos. I going out on a limb and guessing a red and white tobiano foal (odds on my side)! |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 96
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 04:04 pm: |
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Hey everyone, Thanks for all the nice comments on my girl.. She is the sweetest thing..
Have not figured out a name for it yet.. i am in hopes of having a black and white filly.
She is not a maiden. As a matter of fact she has had about 7 foals so far. all of her babies sold in the 4-5 thousand dollar range. So we are hoping for a good one this time....
I'm thinking we are going to have a gorgeous baby what ever it is.. just hopeing that it will be healthy...
http://community.webshots.com/album/196365392jniiNf
http://www.freewebs.com/outlawpaints/ still under work or construction.. just put a few pictures on so far. |
Jenn
Yearling
Username: Jenn
Post Number: 99
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 04:22 pm: |
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You have gorgeous horses. I love paints. |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 97
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 04:33 pm: |
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thanks Jenn. paints are my passion as well. We have 1 quarter horse, 1 Arabian mare and a BS paint colt also... We just bred the Arabian mare to the stallion I bred my horse to and we hope to get a real looker out of that as well.
Thanks again! |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 71
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 04:39 pm: |
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Beverly - I am hoping for a black and white paint, also. I bred my buckskin mare to a homozygous black - heterozygous tobiano so I will get something black. He has about 100 foals on the ground and only two from bucksins. Both have resulted in solid blacks with white legs/blaze, but no spots. Sounds beautiful, also! I mostly want an uneventful delivery! They have a homozygous tobino heterzygous black stallion which is the son of the one I used this time. If I do not end up with a paint this year, I am breeding my bay to the homozygous tobiano and I will have one next year! |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 7
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 08:35 pm: |
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Here are some update picture of my mare and her bag. It is very small but it s big differnet compair to a couple a day ago. Tell me what you think.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=ecd6 |
melissa
Yearling
Username: Mbgirl
Post Number: 76
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 09:55 pm: |
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Beverly,
You have very nice paint horses. How did you all get started? Where did you get your first mares and stud from?The last stud we had was not one for children. I would like to one day sell paints as well. We only have two paints right now.We have my black and white tobiano mare and her stud colt from last year.My paint mare is breed to a solid bay breeding stock paint stud for this year per my husband choice. We sold the solid bay paint last year. We don't have a stud right now to use for my mare this year. My mare is due April 2006. You can see my mare on
www.photobucket.com/albums/e329/MBhorses
Thanks MELISSA |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 38
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 13, 2006 - 10:27 pm: |
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Angela I hate to tell you but that mare is not bagged up at all. I see very very little in the way of udder developement, so if she is pregnant she has a bit more time to cook that foal. Have you ever had her palpated? Are you sure she is pregnant? Are you getting her shots like rhino given to her in preparation for foaling? If she is pregnant that is the smallest foal I have ever seen in a mare who has had 4 previous foals. But stranger things have happened and I have been surprised before but if she were mine I would have the vet out to have her checked in foal.
Beverly, the mare is pretty so is the stallion, since the mare is a bay tobiano and the stallion is a bay paint unless he is homozygous for black and also homozygous (mare or stallion) for the tobiano gene I see another bay paint coming out of this breeding, but I hope you get your black and white tobiano filly that you want! |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 98
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 09:48 am: |
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Hi Angela,
How far along would your mare be? She is still very small if she should be foaling soon. I would have her preg. checked to make sure she is still carrying. I hope she is for you. She's pretty.
Melissa, Thanks. We moved here a couple of years ago with 2 horses. both were solids. I have had a "thing" for paints all my life and have had several before i was married, so when we moved here and had all the land I suggested we look at some paints.. We bought two together the first trip. a black and white gelding and a red and white gelding. then i wanted a bigger mare for me so we went and looked at my girl. i fell in love instantly. We bought her and her "niece". and we bought our stud from the guy down the road from us... Just so happen to sale a couple.. I have always wanted to have a breeding business. didn't mater if it was big or small as long as we got quality horses that are marketable. your mare is uniquely marked and i love your colt..
Jan, Thank You. He is homozygous for that yes. I am hopeing for a healthy filly. i would love a black and white, but as long as it is healthy.. that is all that matters... healthy, filly and black and white...in that order.LOL.
Thanks everyone! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 40
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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Beverly I hope you get the little black and white filly your wanting all sweet and healthy.
My mare jade is bred to a nice stallion named "Lucky Two Straws" He is a homozygous Tobiano I am hoping for a nice bay tovero filly would love a medicine hat but as long as it is healthy I will be happy with any gender paint.
http://www.harrispainthorses.com/html/lucky/LUCKY.HTM |
Beverly Outlaw
Yearling
Username: Outlawpaints
Post Number: 99
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 02:38 pm: |
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Hi Jan,
boy he sure is a hunk of horse!
Good Luck!! You should get a beautiful baby no matter what! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 41
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 03:37 pm: |
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Thanks beverly, I think so too. but what I like about him the most is that he is so sweet that the owners actully let their 10 year old ride him!
He is a doll and jade is sweet and calm too it should make a very nice match and this will be my pleasure horse but if it is a medicine hat it will go to the Choctaw council chief in Oklahoma as a gift. (since I am half Choctaw) I have been trying to get a medicine hat for a few years but no such luck so far. But either way, this foal is going to be special to me. |
windy fillmore
Nursing Foal
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 20
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 08:29 pm: |
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Okay hello everyone I am going to try to post pics of my pregnant mare, Rosie who is due mid April. She is the bay and the stud is the palomino. Jan do you have any predictions for me.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/tripleffarms/100_0321rosiefrontveiw.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/tripleffarms/100_0323rosiesideveiw.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/tripleffarms/rosiesteats.jpg
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e50/tripleffarms/100_0086.jpg |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 42
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 08:33 pm: |
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Windy how cute they are as a couple, well here goes my prediction and I am on the fence a bit but I feel its a colt. but what ever it is I hope that you get a very healthy and sweet foal to love on forever! |
windy fillmore
Weanling
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 21
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 08:43 pm: |
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Thanks Jan a filly would be better news but what we are really hoping for is a buckskin. We have one foal of his out of a bay roan sabino. The filly was born a dunskin but she was born in august so when her foal coat would have shed off she was growing her winter coat so now her front and back ends are chocolate colored her belly is sort of tan. We do know she is going to be a roan. oh and her legs are black. |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 234
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 09:07 am: |
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Rosies a doll wendy.Im guessing colt to wendy.But I hope you get a filly. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 72
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 11:15 am: |
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Here are some updated pics of Dream at almost 10 months...she is still pretty small, but at least she is starting to look pregnant. Jan, since you seem to be the official baby guesser, tell me if you see a black and white tobino filly in there!
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=10monthtummy.jp g |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 73
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 11:18 am: |
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Jan, I hope you have your medicine hat foal since you want it for such an unselfish reason. I have done a lot of work with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and have enjoyed learning about the culture and customs. You have an excellent heritage! |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 43
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 12:07 pm: |
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Thanks Kathee, my uncle is on the council and since I came up with the idea he has really taken off and run with it. now the whole oklahoma band is putting prayers in that this turns out to be a medicine hat (nothing like pressure huh?)as far as heritage,I think I do to, heck we all have a wonderful heritage all we have to do is dig and seek what our individual culture was like. We all belong to a wonderful rainbow tribe. I was lucky enough to have a traditional family who lived their heritage....I am seeking now to connect with my Irish half to fulfill a dream to know all of my family.
Kathee could you get a different shot directly in front but mostly on her side? from this angle it makes it very hard for me to determine. I am not an official guesser, it's just that it's fun and I do get pretty lucky sometimes. Also is she is maiden that helps me too. She is a very pretty girl. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 74
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 01:34 pm: |
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Jan - I did get a better shot. I tried to get this one this morning, but she was being so grouchy! Everytime I tried to position her, she would turn around and face the other way. Apparently, she is in a better mood now!
I am half Irish also and so is my husband (hence the last name McGuire) We are planing a trip to Ireland in 2 years to learn more about our heritage. We were both born in America and so were our parents...we feel a little under-educated on our Irish side.
http://photobucket.com/albums/d106/katheekj/?action=view¤t=10monthsFrontvi ew.jpg |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 45
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 05:48 pm: |
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Kathee she sure is poking out there looks like it maybe a colt. I just hope that it is what ever you want it to be, very pretty mare I am sure its going to be a drop dead gorgeous foal what ever gender it is. I plan on going to Ireland next year. Enjoy your trip I am sure it is going to be wonderful! |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 8
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 07:31 pm: |
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Yes she was Palpation in Nov and the vet said she felt a head and the backbone and the foal was about the size of a Beagle she guest her at about 7 mo along. She has been gain alot of weight fast and everyone I know keeps asking if she in foal or not because they say she get the point to her belly. I show the picture of her udder to my friend that has been breeding all her life and she said that she was the same size as her mare that is due in April with said right due to the fact that is around then time she would foal if she was bred on her foal heat. Went I brought her she over 200 lbs under weight and she is very fine bone. I hope that everything is going right. She is due to be palpation on the 25 of this mo so I guess I will have to wait to find out. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 46
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 09:21 pm: |
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Well angela I hope she is pregnant at her palpation in November the Vet felt she was 7 months along that would make her due in March not April, it seems a waste to have her palpated again when you will find out in a month or so that she either is or is not pregnant just by waiting. Good luck. |
Fred H. Moyer
Neonate
Username: Fmoyer
Post Number: 10
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 04:46 pm: |
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Hi Jan, what photo view of the mare gives you the best look for your best guess on what my mare might be carrying? I'll take some photos this weekend. It'll be fun to hear the guesses. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 47
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 10:15 pm: |
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a good side view and a front view if she stands square. I be glad to look her over and manage a guess. Looking forward to seeing your girl. Guessing lets us take our minds off of the wait.
(Message edited by Jan_H on February 17, 2006) |
Shelley Graham
Neonate
Username: Shelley
Post Number: 3
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 08:24 pm: |
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Hi Jan....any guesses? Pics taken at day 310...
[URL=http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/P1010007.jpg][IMG]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/th_P1010007.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/P1010006.jpg][IMG]http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d66/sgraham21/th_P1010006.jpg[/IMG][/URL] |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 236
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 08:32 pm: |
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looks like a filly shelly. |
Jan H
Weanling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 48
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:01 pm: |
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Shelly,My guess is a filly also. Bet its an active one eh? Good luck with your little one! She is a very pretty mare I am sure its going to be a lovely foal. |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 319
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:30 pm: |
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HI Everyone,
I just feeling a bit left out as we are not expecting this year due to the death of our previous stallion. Since then we have purchased another colt and are very excited to our coming breeding season. Here is a link (I hope--haven't done this in a while) of Our past stallion and some of his offspring some we have some we have sold along with a picture of the sire to our new stallion. The black and white overo is the sire to our stallion. The dun and white overo was our past stallion . I am hunting down some more foal pics. Check back as I will hopefully be adding them. I had to brag about something!
http://photobucket.com/albums/y108/kijopainthorse/ |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 320
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:50 pm: |
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ok , so lets try this again !
Heres a link with a guest password
You have been invited to visit a photo album http://photobucket.com/albums/y108/kijopainthorse/
The read only password to view this album is: horse
Kim |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 80
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:51 pm: |
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Kim - I couldn't get the link to work...took me to your user id and password. Please try again, I would like to see your pics! |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 81
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:55 pm: |
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Kim - they are beautiful...so much color! I'll bet you are excited about next year. |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 321
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 09:56 pm: |
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Ok, it should work now with the user password of horse at the new link . I posted my sign in link ! Sorry .
Kim |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 322
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 10:05 pm: |
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Yes, we are very excited about next year. It was a hard thing to do, to loose a friend of 14 years, but the new fellow that we have has given us new directon. For us the loss of our stallion was hard as it is for many, but others would just see it as a businees venture. He was part of our family and respected us all. Anyways glad you like the pics. Those are just a few of our last foals from him.. Have many more someplace in the computer or on a dvd ... try to keep thing in the same place but I get lost in the computer-all those files !
Thanks for looking
Kim |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 82
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 09:17 am: |
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Heather - we need some updated pics of your little guy! He should be about a month by now, right?
Emma and Tansy - you both had such a bad start to this foaling season. Any updates on your remaining mares? |
Heather Kutyba
Weanling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 47
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 04:31 pm: |
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Ok, got some newer pics.
Here's a cute one of him at about 2 weeks!
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1290043.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P1290037.jpg[/IMG]
I ran out to the barn and got some of him today.
He is 4 weeks old this week.
[IMG]http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f298/HeatherCK11/P2170056.jpg[/IMG]
Buddy is a good little boy, and very personable. It is pretty cold out today (for us, at least), so the horses are stuck in the barn...he is a bit of a devil-child when stuck in the stall. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 84
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 05:16 pm: |
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Heather- he is soooo cute! How tall is he? |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 142
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 05:45 pm: |
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I had to post updated pictures of my mare since she is 299 days now...300 tomarrow, the final countdown is on...[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/b69cfb35.jpg[/IMG]
she has not gotten much wider if none at all, but she is sure growing downward! Her udder has not changed for a while now, it actually seems smaller today than last week. I wonder if cold will affect that, (today is +17 degrees, it is the first time we have been above zero in 2 1/2 days, yesterday a.m. it was -16) I hope she holds out till the end of march like she is supposed to!! I dont know if a baby born in this cold would do real well!!!
she spends A LOT of time standing on 3 feet, constantly changing hind feet, rarely does she stand on all 4's, and she twists her off leg in,(rotates it aimed out and cocked under her) she dont just rest it. not sure if that means anything, but it is new for her. She also doesnt lay down hardly at all anymore, and when she does it isnt for too long. She used to nap for 1 to 3 hours laying sown in the sunshine in the afternoon, now 15 minutes is tops!
Jan- still look like a colt? anyone else have any predictions? |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 238
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 06:18 pm: |
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mmmm Colt. Very pretty mare Kris. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 146
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 06:39 pm: |
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thanks Deena I think so, (she is prettier in the summer though when she does not look like a wooly mammoth!)
she is beginning to blow her coat though, im thinking as a result of uppcoming foaling...i know it is not because of our warm weather!
I am hoping for a colt, all I have ever gotten is fillys...cant wait! |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 53
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 06:44 pm: |
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Kathee...he's about 48-49 inches now. He's a big boy! I asked a friend a few days ago if he looked bi (I can't tell so much anymore)..she said he looked like a baby horse on stilts
Kris, your mare is a BIG girl!! Remind me, who/what is she bred to?? I can't wait 'til she has it. |
Angela Barbour
Neonate
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 10
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 06:47 pm: |
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I think she would have a colt as well.
Here are some more picture of my mare . I her one some mare & foal supplement and you can tell that is helping her. I have notice when she eat she is kicking out alot. I don't know if that mean anything at all. She eat away from the other horse so I know she is not trying to keep horses away.
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=/ecd6&urlhint=actn,ren%3as, 22%3af,0 |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 11
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 06:53 pm: |
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Heather your baby is so cute. |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 54
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 07:09 pm: |
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Thank you angela...I am quite partial to him, but since I'm biased it has little value
Put more pics of him on the "photo links for new babies" so I'd stay on topic.
BTW, your mare is a very FLASHY paint. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that her baby is the same. Great color. |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 240
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 07:19 pm: |
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Angela looks like you may have a filly. |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 13
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 07:20 pm: |
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THank you. I hope it is her color but I'm just hoping for a safe birth and a strong foal
Heather did your mare ever kick out when she eat her grain? |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 55
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 07:29 pm: |
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Yes, she did. Occasionally, she'd squeal as well. Sometimes I think those babies get to romping around and kick in just the right spot.
When my mare was eating was when I'd put my hand under her and feel for the baby moving.
At times, I was shocked Grace stayed standing, as hard as he'd be hopping around. |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 14
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 07:37 pm: |
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Yea she squeal as well when she kick out. She will not let me put my hand under her belly. But I can put my hand on her side and it feels like a bowl full of jello shaking. Is that the foal moving? |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 57
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 11:15 pm: |
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That's probably the baby! If you think you feel it running around in there, step back a foot or so and watch the bottom of her belly...it's amazing to watch it morph and move.
I started seeing movement with Grace at 7 months, and it was consistant through the rest of gestation. |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 16
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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I will watch for that |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 150
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 11:03 am: |
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Heather- she is due end of march, she is a 15 h stocky arab bred to a 95% foundation zebra dun (buckskin as he carries a cream gene)Quarter horse who stands 15.3h.[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5326.jpg[/IMG]
If you on look on the new foals posting i posted another of the stallions foals that i own (from a qh mare smaller than my arab mare in build and height), she is 14.3 hands now at 10 months old!!! they are born big...i am just concerned she will have problems delivering a large foal...vet expects it to be big, however he has said because she is a big arab ahd ahouldnt have too difficult of a time, however i ams scared!!! one part of me hopes she goes early to lesson the chances of a gigantic baby, the other part of me wants her to wait to lesson the chances of a preemie, and weather to get better...
angela- when is your mare due? she doesnt look too big at all, however her udder is more advanced than mine..Tsaharah doesnt usually loook that full until a bout 15 days prior. she is a nice colored mare, nice balance.
when baby is active it makes Tsaharah's belly look like jello, it looks like the baby is on a trampoline, it is pretty funny, and mom gets upset, pins her ears and sometimes squeals.
mine too is isolating herself from the heard, she eats hay when no one else is , she stands in hte barn when no one else is, if there are horses at the hay and in the barn she goes wya out in the middle of hte pasture and stands alone. she is sooo crabby!!! |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 04:09 pm: |
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That the same way she is acting. I don't know when she was bred all I know is she has a baby last year on 3/15/05 and that she was sold a mouth after. I do know that everyone who has owner her before was going to us her as a broodmare nexts year and she never come into heat at all. We are guess she was breed on her foal heat . So i couldn't tell you when she is due. Are vet palpation her on Nov 28 and said she was about 7 mo along |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 154
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 05:23 pm: |
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so if palp in nov and 7 months she would be about 10 now which is what mine is...good luck...its not fun waiting when you know and even worse when you do not know! i did that once already...let us know |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 - 08:01 pm: |
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Kris do you have any picture of your mare udder? I will keep everyone update. Also is a 16X16 stall be ok for a 14.3hh horse to foal in? |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 156
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 06:13 am: |
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angela- yes i do, it is hard to get a side angle though because she is so hairy! i will look at what i have, and if it is no good i will take a new one today, i so have an under shot, but ist is a bit deceiving. i will load and post in a bit. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 158
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 07:39 am: |
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Angela-
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5519.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5517.jpg[/IMG]
these were taken on sunday, after being below zero for a couple days it seemed as if her udder tucked up some, i was a bit concerned because while it was so cold i did not take the time to watch and feel for movement, then when her udder appeared smaller i was a bit nervous, however yesterday now baby was dancing, or doing gymnastics in there! phew!!!!!
see what i mean that yours appears more advanced than mine?
she doesnt develope too much until 2 weeks prior(or at least that was what she did her 2 foals she has had, (most recent 10 years ago)...so well see...she has seemed to slow down since it got cold, thankfully...i dont want a baby too early!!! she has began to really shed this week though,, so she must be getting closer. |
E Watkins
Yearling
Username: Evie
Post Number: 82
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:17 am: |
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Kris- I think you have a ways to go, I need to get photos of my mares, maybe I can do that tonight. Sage (the grulla) seems to have just stopped progressing, that's good, she's only 307 days.. but if you see this udder, I think you'll agree, she's not too far off. I was very concerned she wouldn't make 300 days as she showed changes so early. I'll be down in the barn tonight and take the camera along.. then I just have to remember how to post the photos. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 159
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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she has been like this now for over a month, and developed suddenly,but like i said, it seems to have shrunk some since it got so cold out. normally she has very small teats, very tucked into her body. I will try to locate pics of 1 week prior to her last foal, she does not get a very large bag at all, but if she has a ways to go that is ok by me...hopefully baby dont get too big! time will tell!! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 160
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 01:47 pm: |
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E Watkins-here are photos of photos so they may not be real clear, but you will see enough i think
here is her maiden pregnancy 4 hours prior to foaling,[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5558.jpg[/IMG]
here is her 2nd preg, 1 year later, first photo 2 1/2 weeks prior, 2nd photo 7 days prior.
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5558.jpg[/IMG] and
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5555.jpg[/IMG]
see what i mean about not getting real big? that is why i probably think she is developed...what so you think? |
E Watkins
Yearling
Username: Evie
Post Number: 88
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 02:00 pm: |
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I still think you have a ways to go, they can fool you though, what she has now is similar to what my maiden mare has. My grulla mare is probably more similar to the first photo, but she's been that way for 2 weeks now! I just know one of these evenings I'm going home and she'll be totally filled out and ready to foal. (at least that's what I'm HOPING..lol) |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 53
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 02:25 pm: |
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Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 02:23 pm:
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Kris Photo one: here is her maiden pregnancy 4 hours prior to foaling,[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5558.jpg[/
and photo two: here is her 2nd preg, 1 year later, first photo 2 1/2 weeks prior, 2nd photo 7 days prior.
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5558.jpg[/IMG]
are the same picture. |
E Watkins
Yearling
Username: Evie
Post Number: 89
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 02:28 pm: |
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Jan- I left a photo of my maiden mare on the thread for photos of new foals, will you take a peek and tell me your opinion on colt or filly? |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 19
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 02:43 pm: |
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Yea last years mare did the same thing as your mare Kris. And she only did it when it was really cold out. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 161
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 07:52 pm: |
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sorry lets try this again
2 1/2 weeks prior [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5557.jpg[/IMG]
and 7 days prior [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5555.jpg[/IMG]
now try it. sorry about that!
I hope I do have time ...6 weeks would be great!!! I just vaccinated her today. so she needs a bit of time now to build her antibodies!!! |
Angela Barbour
Nursing Foal
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 20
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 09:35 pm: |
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That better. Also would a 16X16 stall be ok for my mare to foal in? She is 14.3hh tall. Tonight I saw my mare laying down in the pastern and she look like she eat a 55 gallon barrel. LOL |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 55
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:01 pm: |
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That’s a better picture, I believe you have at least a couple if not three more weeks to go, but that can change, remember that udder development alone is not a good indicator of imminent foaling. Watch for softening around the tail head/croup, the belly dropping into a v shape etc. I am sure everything is going to turn out just fine, these mares can drive you crazy with worry sometimes Kris hang in there.
Angela a 20 X 20 would be better or a 20 X 40 even better then that, but you have to use what you have, just make sure you are there to watch her foal out so she does not get caste or the foal gets caught against the wall when the mare tries to stand. Next time she is laying down like that take a picture I would love to see her have a belly that big because your other pictures do not show her development very well for a mare who is 10 months pregnant with her 4th or 5th foal. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 165
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 06:44 am: |
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[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5531.jpg[/IMG]
heres my mare laying down,,now i know why she doesnt do it often,... it looks uncomfortable!
("grunt-groan-sigh-grunt") |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 56
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 07:42 am: |
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Kris she looks great and what a nice bed that hay makes. I am sure she enjoys taking a load off of those feet once in awhile. Poor thing, it wont be too long before relief comes!
My two preggo mares lay flat out on their sides at least twice a day...funny thing is that I see buzzards circling and if it was'nt for my mares ears moving I would be running out there scared to death...Thank goodness those ears rotate around like radar detectors...lol |
Alex Abel
Weanling
Username: Paintedhorses
Post Number: 37
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 08:45 am: |
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Haha, yeah those ears are sure a blessing. Our horses like to take naps and lay flat streched out. It looks like they are dead. I used to freak out when I saw that, but now I just look for those ears moving and as long as they are moving I have no worries. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 21
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 09:34 am: |
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I will try to get a picture. I will be hard because that was the first I saw her laying down. I know her colors make her look smaller then she really is. I will try to find a way to take a picture were she looks fat |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 166
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:26 am: |
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my mare wont lay flat any more, i havent even seen her roll or seen signs of her having rolled (no hay or snow on her back), she lays just like that, last time i saw her lay flat she had a hard time getting back upright so she could stand. everyone else in the pasture "dies" everyday for hours at a time(thats what we say when they are layed out..."oh sunnys dead")...not Tsaharah...she rarely lays more than 15 minutes and not real often. She stands and leans on walls, center post to hte lean to and stands on 3 legs all day, usually resting a hind but will rest fronts too. She is getting crabby too, she doenst want anyone to lay by her in the hay (just before i took the picture the yearling layed down with her and right after i took the picture she got up and swung her head at the yearling.
shes probably just as anxious as i am.....but well just wait.......... |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 58
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 05:53 pm: |
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That is too cute Kris, I love the description they die out there, it is perfect. I guess it all depends on the mare, I think the reason your girl is so crabby is because she is not getting her beauty rest. And if she cant sleep no one can LOL. poor thing, she has a sweet face. It will not be too much longer now! |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 22
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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Well the vet will mostly be out this weekend to check her again. Because I keep second guessing my self and want to be sure that she in foal because I would hate to put all this money into a foal blanket,stall,etc and find out that she is not infoal because if she not infoal I can save that money and pay for her to be bred this year. So I should know for sure nexts week wish me luck. |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 61
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:31 pm: |
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Good idea Angela, your right to have her checked in foal, the money you save could pay for her breeding for next year please keep us updated and let us know what you find out. Good luck sending positive foal vibes your way. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 170
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 06:14 am: |
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good luck angela. have you seen any foal movement? if she is close to what minw is it is quite evident. watch while she is eating, the belly sill jsut wiggle, bounce, disform, back near flank area, and low to the udder. I hope for you that she is bred!!! let us know!
jan-maybe thats it not enough beauty sleep!! |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 24
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:28 am: |
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I'm hoping . I think I show it move last night but is was dark out so I can't be a 100% sure but also notice yesturday that when I check on her she was asleep in the corner on the lean to and she would kick out at the air for no reason. My vet did she the picture of her udder and she said that is a bag but she not sure if it a bag because she getting ready to go into heat or if she close to her due date so she want to make sure as well.
Please be infoal
Thank you for send luck my way I need alot of it. |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 76
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 06:29 pm: |
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I just wanted to show you all how BIG my mare has gotten within the past 3 weeks. I can't believe it. Here she is three weeks ago, you could only see her belly on one side:
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20168.jpg
And here she is now, she sticks out so much she bumps into everything. I though she was big when we got her, but now, gosh I can't even imagine lol. poor thing.
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/Picture%20044.jpg |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 77
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 06:59 pm: |
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Ok here it is. I created a foalin journal for Dallas. I put on there picture comparisons, and a poll on if you think she will have a filly or a colt. check it out. I thought it would just be something fun to do to help this waiting time to pass faster. Enjoy.
http://www.yellowhouseranch.com/dontchasfoalingjournal.htm |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 91
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:24 pm: |
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Kassie - Wow! She looks like she is inflated! I can't even imagine mine that big. You web site has her at 280 days - she looks like she will pop if she gets any bigger! |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 78
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:30 pm: |
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I know, I could not believe it. I even went and double checked the breeding dates I had down for her. The people that bred her told me she was bred on May 20 2005. they never had her checked in foal so they would now know if she is carrying twins or not. I sure hope not. I have never seen a mare get that big within just 3 weeks.  I an a bit nervous now. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 92
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |
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Let's just hope their breeding date is off and she is farther along... the twins thing is so scary. Maybe she is just going to waddle around a couple more months and have a large foal. How big is she? |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 79
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:09 pm: |
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she is a small mare. only about 13.3 hands tall. she might be 14 hands. She is the smallest mare we have. but we where told this was due to her getting strangles when she was young, her father and mother where 15 hands. She is very uncomfortable. Poor thing never lays down anymore. She eats very slow and not much at a time. She does not finish her grain, so I just feed her the leftover later in the day. I just don't see how she can go another 2 months. I am worried about her having a big foal since she is so small, even more reason I want to be there when she foals.
We have put up a foaling cam in the foaling barn that we can watch from our living room. I will be taking her in to the vet in about 2 weeks for her check up and vaccinations. (I don't think she will fit in the stocks) eek.
praying *Please have only one foal and be healthy and not to big* |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 26
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:12 pm: |
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Wow she is big. The mare that foal on are farm last year was that size and she had a big colt. Here are some picture of her. She is the palomino. The before was the day we pick her up and then after was taking two day before she foaled. "note the vet wrap."
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=ecd6 |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 80
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:28 pm: |
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Thanks, its nice to know they can get that big and not have twins. Did she have any problems foaling? |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 70
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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umm if she has grown that much in only 3 weeks I would have the vet check her. I get worried that if she has over a month to go that there could be problems. Better to be safe than sorry. There is a condition I can not for the life of me remember what it is called it has something to do with the allantois (fluid surrounding the foal), where it fills too much and can cause some troubles if not drained off some. Like I said it may be better to err on the side of caution and have the vet palpate her to check on the fluid level and see if everything is ok. I am not seeking to scare you, its just unusual for a mare to get that much larger in only a few weeks. let us know how things are going! |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 81
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:38 pm: |
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Thank you Jan. I will call the vet first thing in the morning. I would rather be safe than sorry. And since I have only had this mare for a few weeks I don't know if she normally gets this big this far before foaling. Darn, now I wish I could call her tonight.
 *Ok calm down, I can wait till tomorrow* 
Thanks Jan for the input. I am taking another mare in tomorrow to be bred I will just load Dallas up an take her with me. YIKES I sure hope she fits in the trailer. |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 12:25 pm: |
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Kassie- I feel badly now thinking that my mare is BIG, your mare is definately big! Good luck, I hope you get good news, and hopefully they have her breeding dates messed up.
I was checking mares last night and another of the youngsters is making milk, gaping at the back and softening up in the hips. This filly will be 320 days on April the 6th. I'm going back and recheck when she was bred, I wonder if there could be more than one filly in our barn that the vet missed the pregnancy and we "rebred" a pregnant horse? One thing is sure, it's shaping up to be an interesting foaling season. |
Danielle Roosen-Runge
Neonate
Username: Rolling_hills_quarter_horses
Post Number: 8
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 03:12 pm: |
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Jan -- What do you base your predictions on? |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 73
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 08:23 pm: |
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I hope everything is alright with your mare and that they just got her breeding dates wrong. Let us know what is happening. It is not the size that bothers me as much as how quickly she grew in only 3 weeks, that sudden change could be a cause for concern like I said it is better safe than sorry.
Danielle, is a prediction based on anything really? I just look at a mare and from my own expereinces 30 plus years I have been kind of lucky on my guess's of what a mare is having based on how she is carrying, wide and high a filly deep and low a colt, of course maiden mares are very tricky to predict as they all seem to carry them high and tight. But thats it. Its just fun and based on no science what so ever, consider it entertainment. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 28
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 08:48 pm: |
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Yes she had a palomino stud colt. |
Rebecca Kate Smith
Nursing Foal
Username: Iheartskeetles
Post Number: 12
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 09:18 pm: |
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finally uploaded pictures of my mare. what do you guys think? boy or girl? also, check out her edema, is that normal?
Her name is Ladys Asset (Good Asset x TB mare), she's an Appendix Quarter Horse. She's a princess and she's my show horse. I love her dearly. She's bred to Zips White Chip who is a son of Zips Chocolate Chip. He is sorrel by 2 bays and Skeetles is sorrel by two bays. I'm hoping for a bay colt, we'll see. Oh! She's "due" the 28th. So today is day 336.
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Skeetles2.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Skeetles4.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Skeetles5.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Skeetles6.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Skeetles7.jpg
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/chip.jpg
(Message edited by iheartskeetles on February 24, 2006) |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 82
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:18 pm: |
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Rebecca what a beautiful mare. She is so pretty and shiny. lol. My mares have a thick winter coat and look all shaggy and dirty.
I am not all that good and the predicting the foal thing. Jan might take a look at her and tell you what she thinks. Is this her first foal? What is she bred to? Can't wait to see pictures of the new baby
I found out from the previous owners that Dallas usually gets really big the last couple of months ofer her pregnancy, and I talked with my vet and she did not seemed overly concerned, she did tell me to watch her and let her know if she goes off her feed, or does anything out of the norm. But she still acts like she is fully of life. Today we took the other mares out and went riding and the threw a fit not getting to go this time. She was running all along the fence at a fast lope. I don't think pregnant women can move like that lol. Anyhow we are just going to watch her for the next few days. She goes in after the first of March for a check up and her vaccinations. I think she will be just fine, she is just one of those mares that gets HUGE. But better safe than sorry, so I am watching her closely. I don't think she is close to foaling time at all, no bag yet, she has not dropped, nos softening of the rump, ect. ect. the only change is size. |
windy fillmore
Weanling
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 26
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:42 pm: |
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Rebecca, Sorry to tell you this but the way I understand it is if you breed a sorrel to a sorrel you will get a sorrel 100% of the time but just maybe you will get some of that chrome the sire has. Hope this helps. |
Danielle Roosen-Runge
Neonate
Username: Rolling_hills_quarter_horses
Post Number: 9
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 11:16 pm: |
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Jan -- I was just curious... so my two mares based on that will one be having a filly and the other be having a colt... we will know in 20 or so days if all goes as planned *crossing fingers & toes* |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 67
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 11:17 pm: |
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Yup, sorrell to sorrel = sorrell. She's a pretty girl Rebecca. Guess you're hoping for a pleasure horse, huh??!! |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 29
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 07:52 am: |
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I think she will have a colt and most likely a sorrel |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 76
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 12:54 pm: |
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Rebecca, my guess is a very flashy sorrel filly. but of course its a guess and that is all it is. I know what ever she has will be the just what you wanted color and gender aside. Enjoy your baby!
Danielle I am crossing my fingers too that you get what you want! and I will add healthy to that wish as well. |
Danielle Roosen-Runge
Nursing Foal
Username: Rolling_hills_quarter_horses
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 01:02 pm: |
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It will be very exciting as this is the first cross with my mares and the stallion I bought last year. He has produced nothing but gorgeous, athletic babies prior to him moving to the US. The mare that looks as though she may be having a filly... well that foal is probably sold already sight unseen. I have a deposit waiting for it to drop. I hate parting with them but they seem to find great forever homes! |
Rebecca Kate Smith
Nursing Foal
Username: Iheartskeetles
Post Number: 13
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 03:38 pm: |
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thanks alot guys...my dream of a big bay colt is shot.. well, as long as it is healthy, i'll be happy. I think i made a good choice of stud to cross my mare with. hoping for a beautiful baby.
kassie-this is her first foal and she is bred to Zips White Chip who is a son of Zips Chocolate Chip.
heather- yep! i'd like a colt just like her so i can do the all-around. hopefully her baby will be flat kneed and slow legged and have lower hocks of his dad. |
Sandy
Nursing Foal
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 18
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 04:00 pm: |
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Hi All,
Jan would you please, look at my pics of Sometimes Calypso and give me a prediction? Filly, or Colt what do you think??? Thank you in advance for your prediction.
http://photobucket.com/albums/e267/sandysz
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sometimes+calypso
Due date is becoming more and more like mud. About a month ago she started "blowing" her coat and has only a little fuzz on her lower half of her belly and small patches on her neck, chest and legs, thickening of her udder(which has doubled in the past week), and biting her sides. When she lays down she moans and groans. She started rubbing her butt yesterday. A few days back I found a little yellow discharge at the end of her teats. No heat, no hard swelling. Figured 6 weeks from that day and it will be March 28th and her 320th from her first AI. Vet thinks that she will go early. At a little over 6 mos.(from last AI)the foal started kicking the snot out of her. She does amazing roll backs out of the stall when that happens.LOL. Today she laid down for a while then rolled over onto her left side and stayed there with her right legs staying out straight for about 15 min until I asked her if she was ok....then she got up very sloooowwwwlllyyyy. Very weird....usually her legs are resting when she does that. Almost looked like a dead horse. Just an update into this new saga. Been about 27 years since my last foal. Plus she is a maiden. Pins and needles.....going to be a looonnnngg next couple of months.}}
The information that is available here is priceless. The ablility to have this well of knowledge at our fingertips is a relief, I know to me and probably many others that have and are going through the same experiences.
God Bless to all
Sandy K.
254? 289?
Sometimes Calypso ?Due? May 11.12 & June 16 AI'd
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Ima Mcloud |
Sandy
Nursing Foal
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 19
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 04:14 pm: |
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Hi again,
Forgot to add that I am in SW Michigan, and the weather is completely insane here now. Going to be down in the single digits tonight and was in the 40's yesterday.......like a roller coaster. Plus from reading here, did not know that having the lights on in the barn late would make a difference in gestation, till 11:30pm. Even with the freezing weather here Sometimes Calypso, aka Mollie, has never acted like she is cold without her winter coat. I am afraid to blanket her, might make her too hot.
Take care and Bless the Broodmares,
Sandy K. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 30
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 06:47 pm: |
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Well the vet could come out because of a horse going down in ohio and she was called down to help. But she send out a breeder that is going at tell if a horse is infoal or not come out today. He said that she is infoal because she is carring that weight in the right spot and that her udder are starting to fill out. So we are hope for a baby still so I took some more picture . She is really heavy the only thing is her colors hide it very well. If anyone has any ideal on how to take better picture of her weight/size please tell me
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=/ecd6&urlhint=actn,ren%3as, 31%3af,0 |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 31
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 06:52 pm: |
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couldn't come out ^ |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 77
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 09:07 pm: |
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Sandy, I am going to say a filly, she looks like she could be carrying a colt or a filly but my gut sways me to the filly on her she is just a bit wider then what a colt does. but this is a guess. Should be a beautiful little foal momma is nice looking and has a sweet eye. |
Sandy
Nursing Foal
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 20
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 09:35 pm: |
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Thank you, Jan,
Mollie is a real sweetheart,even with some of the bad things that have happened to her. We have had a connection since the first time we met. She is a coming 7yr old, and I have owned her for two years. She has also grown 5 inches in those two years, and is a little over 15.1 now. Ima Mcloud is 17.2. and an awesome horse.
How is your percentage so far? This is so awesome to have people to chat with that will not get tired of the "horsey talk" LOL.
Take Care,
Sandy K. |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 80
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 10:57 pm: |
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so far my percentage has been 85% this year. Sounds like Molly has found a wonderful home with you. The stud you bred her to is 17.2 wow, I hope she is ok having a foal that big. If you do not mind me asking can I ask why did you breed her to such a big stud? especially to a maiden. Not that it matters too much, she will not have a foal bigger then she can physically accomodate. Are you breeding her to get a sport horse propect? What kind of horse is this stud? Hopefully not something like an Irish Draught horse or some other draft breed. I always went by the rule of thumb, never breed above a hand taller then the mare. But that is just me. I just worry about breeding so much bigger to a maiden since they seem to have the most trouble foaling (nothing is stretched out yet). But I am sure everything will turn out just fine. But I will put a prayer in just in case. |
Sandy
Weanling
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 21
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 09:27 am: |
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Hi Jan,and all,
Wow, that sounds like a super percentage.
Mac, Ima Mcloud is a reg Appaloosa. Mac usually adds 4" over the mare's height on the foal when it reaches maturity.
http://appaloosajournal.com/ad/BT_Showcase/imamcloud.html
He is throwing Grand Champion Hunter/Jumpers, Cow horses, Pleasure, and believe it or not also in Saddle Seat, 100% color also.
I am hoping for another do it all, companion.
Thank you,
Sandy K. |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 81
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 12:06 pm: |
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Sandy he is a very pretty boy and I was worried that it maybe a draft horse type with all that bone, but it looks like he is a good match to increase size without over doing the bone! I feel much better about the match! Thanks for sharing! |
Elena Vieira
Weanling
Username: Opheliaimmorttal
Post Number: 32
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 01:23 pm: |
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Hey Everyone, I got some new pictures of my pregnant mare. She is due in April. I am very excited. Here they are:
(i am just going to send the photobucket link to my account, the pictures have dates on them!)
http://photobucket.com/albums/d111/Opheliaimmorttal/
Jan, What do you think??
Here's a link to the stallion as well,
http://www.sportpony.us/Moonshine.htm
Hope everyones pregnant mares are doing great!
Elena |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 147
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 01:50 pm: |
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Aspen - Your photos are really good, aspens a lovely looking girl.
Sandy - Ima Mcloud is lurrrrrvley. I see a nice foal coming your way : )
I have never bred before but your mare looks very, very much like mine. She is more on the right hand side and she holds it the same way my mare does AND her size looks the same - My mare is 271/273 days today - cant remember which!
(I was looking at your photos of 251(286)days)
Anyway....Whenever It arrives, I hope its perfect.
Good luck all : ) |
Sandy
Weanling
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 23
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 06:15 pm: |
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Thank you, Kim
Mac, Ima Mcloud, is a fantastic horse and so is his owner Debbie Phillips, in Oregon. He has been putting some fantastic Appaloosas, such as, Renaissance Man, and Academy Award, in our lives. He has BEB 4 times in his line, and Mollie has Bright Eyes Brother 6 times. Hoping for good Appaloosa color and not that "pinto" thing. Had a heart attack when I saw a pic of that BEB crossed Appaloosa mare that looked like a paint.
Here is Mollie's pedigree. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/sometimes+calypso
How old is your mare and what breed? Do you have some pics of her?? Do you have her listed on Allbreedpedigree??
God Bless,
Sandy K. |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 85
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 06:23 pm: |
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Elena, very pretty mare and stallion looks like you may get a buckskin colt from this match or a palomino colt. She looks like she is carrying low but not wide so I say colt. color it is a 50 - 50 split between palomino and buckskin but I lean more toward the buckskin if she was a sorrel or a chestnut I would lean more palomino.. In any case it should be a great looking foal good luck. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 32
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 06:55 pm: |
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Hey here is my new site if anyone would like to come a join
I have a question hopeful someone will know what this means. When I go out to feed her vulva is really long and swelling. Then after working her it goes down.
http://foalquest.proboards52.com/index.cgi#general |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 151
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 08:07 am: |
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Hi sandy - My mare is 18 next month, this is the only foal I will have from her. She is a chestnut Thoroughbred, but fairly sane for the breed. Her sire is standard bearer and War admiral and Man'o'war are both in her pedigree. Quite good I beleive, but was new to all this in april last year... She is registered at www.pedigreequery.com as AMBERGLEN.
The stallion I chose is on the all breed one, WAYLAND CRANBERRY, he is a new forest but, not intentionaly, has quite a good line of forest breeding.
There are some photos on a link here somewhere, its the post for 'lets all post photos of our pregnant mares' ( I think that was the title) I have some more recent ones but I cant get them off the camera onto the computer at the moment!! *frustrated* |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 152
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 08:12 am: |
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http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/WEE--6-MTHS.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c172/clafairy/babys%20daddy/1131c200.jpg
Silly me! Its this thread. The first link is my girl at 6 mths (we are now at 9) and the second is the stallion I chose, I think he is homozygous for bay and agouti - So Ill probably get a foal with his colouring, but I might be wrong. |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 10:41 am: |
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Anothe pic of my mare she is now 9 months and seems very large..........
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v502/dodib/CHEROKEE9MONTHS.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim Winter
Breeding Stock
Username: Clafairy
Post Number: 154
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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I thought mine was looking very large for 9 months too Dorthy, but she is about the same size as yours - Mind, she is 16hh.
Lovely girl - Hope you have such a nice coloured foal. |
Kathee McGuire
Yearling
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 97
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006 - 10:50 am: |
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Dorothy - I have always loved the Apps and we don't see many in my area. She is a real beauty! |
Dorthy (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 136.181.195.113
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 03:41 pm: |
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Thank you, can't wait to see what the foal looks like She is bred to a Dun Quarter horse and I am hoping for a Dun filly with a blanket on her rump |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 188
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 12:49 pm: |
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Newest photos!
I did not think she had grown too much in hte last month, but i looked back at 2/1 and OH MY GOSH! she is huge now compared to then!!!
take a look, anyone else agree that she will explode if she goes much longer?!? she is only like 308 days!
what so I do? rear view' [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5700.jpg[/IMG]
front
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5698.jpg[/IMG]
side
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5699.jpg[/IMG]
everyone still think colt?
Is it me or does she appear to be dropping?
(compared to [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5344.jpg[/IMG]???)
thanks kris |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 154
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 01:34 pm: |
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Hee, hee, Kris- she looks pretty darn big, I think my grulla is about that same size.. poor baby.. I'll be glad when she finally gets it over with as I'm sure she will be too, she's 314 days today, the countdown is on. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 189
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 01:40 pm: |
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man those poor girls! |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 99
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 02:06 pm: |
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Kris, usually the mare will be bigger on one side (the horn the foal is growing in) but she looks evenly large, was she checked for twins? She is huge, when did the vet last see her? she is carrying like its a filly (high and wide) but man oh man I am at a loss on what she is carrying at that size gee whiz. |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 155
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 02:17 pm: |
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Jan- you should see my grulla, she's the same, last year she carried low and back, so much so that I wasn't convinced she was pregnant, this year, there is now doubt.. and it's a wild thing, if I talk to the mare, it kicks like crazy. (it's not even born and already it doesn't like me) My dark mare isn't as big, but this is her first and while she was wide, she just hangs low now..I'm assuming the foal is in position for birth. Sage(the grulla) makes me wonder if her foal has turned or if it's still in there sideways. |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 101
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 02:53 pm: |
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Kirs- my daughter and I were enjoying her pics...from the back view, that huge middle makes her look like she has little, tiny stick legs! God bless them! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 190
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 02:55 pm: |
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Jan-warning long post
So it is not justme that thinks she is a COW?!?!?!
she is an arab bred to a Qh i am not sure if that makes the difference. She was bigger on one side than the other until about a week or two a go, now she is pretty even, occasionally she will be sopsided for a short time but then baby moves some and evens out again. She was ultrasounded early ( ia m unsure when it was, 45 days i suppose) and at that time only one follicle, no twins, however vet said it has been possible for one to shadow the other and hide it so it is possible (Lord, I hope not!) The vet has not seen her since august, and at that time he said she was already large. I spoke with him about 3 weeks ago about her size (and to think she was smaller THEN!) and he had said her age may be a factor or a large foal which he is not too concerned about eitehr because she is a large built arab, he has been her and my vet all her life (almost 17 years).
Now I am concerned to say the least! The stallion produced one set of buckskin twins from a qh mare last year (aborted 3 weeks before delivery) believe it or not she is carrying much lower and wider than previous pregnancies which were both fillies, but she was not nearly this big with either of those! (probably could combine her belly in both and she'd still be bigger now!)
too funny my vet just called...asked how she was and if I got her vaccinated, asked when she was due again I told him any time after march 20th, he asked if she had began to bag yet, when I told him not really he told me if in 2 weeks she has not started to fill up to call him she may need a hormone (now that I was reminded she had to have it after delivery with her first foal) DUH!how could i forget that?!?!
he said he feels it is not twins, and if it is it is too late to do aything, he just laughed and said she will be ok, she could bag up and foal anytime you know? yeah...welll we'll see...
UGH!
my poor girl she may have lost her girly figure...i keep looking for stretch marks...(is that possible?)
and yes Ev, your gtulla is a big girl too!!!
I just feel so bad for these poor things!
why did i do this again?!?!? |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 158
Registered: 10-2005
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Kris- I'm afraid I have a case of guilt too, Sage was certainly willing at the time, but I feel like it's my fault she's suffering. I'm praying for a filly out of her, then I won't make her have another foal for a while, maybe ever. Avery however is carrying her first and she's already got a date with the new palomino stallion when she comes into heat again..
My friend's mare is getting closer, hubby just went and checked her, she's not dripping milk, but definately in labor..so long as she remains undisturbed, I bet she'll have the foal before nightfall. |
Robin Culbertson
Neonate
Username: Murrini
Post Number: 6
Registered: 02-2006
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Ok, I can't hold out any longer, I've been trying to wait her out and just see what she is going to have but... What do you thing Jan? (My other hope is now that I've given up and asked she will finally have it!)
http://photobucket.com/albums/e184/murrini/Serina/
Kris - Wow! I can't imagine my girl if she were that big! She's an Arab too, but bred to another arab. I thought she was miserable and she's not even close to that! I won't feel so sorry for her now (she does get sympathy still for the baby kicking her alot!! It's going to be a little pistol... I'm not suprised though as she is 20 and LOVES to run and tosses her head like a 2 year old. Just last weekend she was running around like she wasn't even pregnant, I can't imagine how she does it. Decided trying to buck was a bad idea though!) |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 385
Registered: 04-2005
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kris, a twin pregenancey would be caused by double ovulation . It there fore would not relate to the stallion producing twins , but due to the fact that the mare that he was bred to produced two good eggs to be fertilized. So it should not have impact on your mare that you bred to this same stallion unless your mare is known to "double ovulate" |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 100
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 08:31 pm: |
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Robin sure looks like a filly to me. She is a pretty mare enjoy her.
Chris, she is a biggy no doubt about that, Kim is right twins are caused by two eggs and have nothing to do with the stallion. Many mares who have twinned before may and often do twin more than once, since your mare has never had twins she more then likely is not carrying them now (hope against hope. It maybe her age and other factors which caused her to balloon out like that I am just praying for a healthy strong foal. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 192
Registered: 01-2006
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she did cycle and breed for 14 days...is that not a good sign? |
Rebecca Kate Smith
Nursing Foal
Username: Iheartskeetles
Post Number: 16
Registered: 01-2006
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well, thought i'd share the results in case any of you are keeping track of your success. my mare foaled this morning and she has a sorrel colt with what looks to be 4 white legs and a disconnected blaze.
http://photobucket.com/albums/c30/iheartlucius/Teleo/ |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 75
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 12:11 am: |
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Kris..
For the love of Pete!!! Your mare is massive ! I think she's going to foal out a coffee table.
Honestly though. My mare wasn't near that big and she foaled out a 43 inch tall colt. I bet it's laying sideways...stretching out those legs and tap dancing on her ribs! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 194
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:35 am: |
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Thanks Heather- I will share that new with her!
I dont even know what to think or do any more...
everyone talks about their big pregnant mares running around kicking, bucking, etc, mine has not ran for over a month, and buk and kick...its been several! she normally doesnt go out of a snails pace...unless she is in someones way, she may take a quick step to hte side, but that is it! She uses swinging her head to keep everyone away from her...she doesnt even want the chickens by her! it takes her a long time to get from point a to point b!!!
yesterday evening my husband looked outside after getting home adn said man her belly is gonna drag on the ground pretty soon! I told him yeah she is getting pretty big, no wait HUGE! he tehn said why is her tail so pointy? Then I looke out, and boy her tail head is sure sticking out, adn hr tail will gradually raise up...after a minute or two she swishes it, it lays flat, a minute or two later it gradually raises again and the process retpeats, thios goes on all day. When I looked out at her while my hubby was observing I noticed her belly was lower and a bit more pointy on the bottomcompared to earlier in the day...so I had to go check her, no other changes. A few hours later she was laying in the barn,(which she normally doesnt do at night,s eh has been only laying in the day when the sun is out and warm,she then rolled then got up and ate...I am guessing that baby is preparing for its GRAND entry!
I just hope it is nOT twins...and not tooo early...and not too late...( I dont want to wait too long, AND I would hate to see how big this baby will get)
well time................so we'll wait.......... |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 197
Registered: 01-2006
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[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5707.jpg[/IMG]
WHOA! SHE BLEW UP AGAIN OVER NIGHT...LAST NIGHT WHEN I SAW HER ROLL...SHE MUST HAVE REPOSISTIONED THE FOAL!!! THAT HAS GOT TO HURT! |
Robin Culbertson
Neonate
Username: Murrini
Post Number: 9
Registered: 02-2006
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Thank you Jan, I will let you know for sure once she lets me know! She didn't fall for the ruse and have it last night since I gave up and asked! Next trick is going out of town Friday night, let's see if that one works! (Boyfriend is buying another horse) I don't have a preference, I can't register the baby so it will probably just be an endurance/ pleasure horse, loved dearly either way! I'm more anxious to see what color it will be, but there is no predicting that, I don't have enough information to begin narrowing it down at all. |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 77
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 03:59 pm: |
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Told 'ya.... coffee table, probably cherry or spruce. She's gonna have a boy....bettin on 327-329 days gestation. |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 104
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 04:16 pm: |
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Kris - I believe your little guy must be completly stretched out. He must have gotten tied of the fetal position. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 200
Registered: 01-2006
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Heather..that is too funny... cherry would be nice!!
327 to 329 huh? well we got just shy of 3 weeks then! that would be good, and a colt would be awesome!!! that is what im hopin for! any color guess? (she was bred to a zebra dun carrying the cream gene "dunskin") just out of curiosity of course...
Kathee- you're thinkin "guy" too? cool! anyway so do you think the "li'l turd" is getting ready to make an entrance or what? practicing the escape route? stretching out those long legs getting them ready to run i suppose...
well when I saw her this am I had to post a new photo...I thought someone will get a good laugh out of it...I know she cant be laughing!
thansk guys for helping to pass the time! |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 67.70.116.93
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Hey gals, I just thought maybe if you have not seen my mare on the other thread that I would put it her as well.
http://photobucket.com/albums/e107/rav123en/?sc=1 |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 391
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 06:39 pm: |
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yep, she looks close ! Keep hanging in there!
Kim |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 103
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 07:05 pm: |
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Raven, Looks like it wont be long now!!!!! |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 67.70.116.93
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Kim K and Jan, am I correct on what I have been seeing with her in changes?
Jan could you by chance see what you think she might have?
Thank you gals |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 104
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 11:00 pm: |
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Raven I do not like to guess after they have already dropped like you mare has but if I were to venture a guess on how she is carrying now and its a coin toss this late in the game I say colt. let us know what she has, now if she carried high and wide then that changes to a filly. good luck with your new foal. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 33
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 09:59 am: |
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Well I talked again to her very first owner. He said he get her mixs up with a differnet mare that she has had only two foal a colt and filly. The colt she when 360 "first foal she had." and the filly she when 334. He doesn't remenber if he bred her or not. And he said that she doesn't show any sign at all he said when she get close to the 300 day to start staying with her. But I did find out that she a great mommy and that by the sound of the sign that it thinks she is
Nice colt Rebecca Kate Smith |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 212
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 05:33 pm: |
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i MEASURED MY MARES WIDTH ...YEP...WIDE LOAD...38 INCHES!!!(=/- 1")!
AND SHE ISNT AS WIDE TODAY AS SHE WAS THE DAY I TOOK HER MOST RECENT PHOTO..(SHE WAS REALLY DISTORTED THAT DAY!)
THOUGHT SOMONE WOULD GET A KICK OUT OF THAT! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 108
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 03, 2006 - 11:01 pm: |
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Raven congrates on your new colt I think your foal will turn out to be grey like momma! I guessed right on your mare I am still at 85%
I can not wait to see the pictures of the foal! Congrates again on your colt! |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted From: 67.71.65.46
| | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 05:57 am: |
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http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e107/rav123en/Ladysfoal8.jpg
Her is my bundle. Better pics later. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 109
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 01:22 pm: |
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Raven he is so beautiful! Enjoy him they grow up so fast, funny that it seems like it takes them forever to cook but once here they grow like weeds. He is such a pretty boy! |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 34
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 04, 2006 - 09:34 pm: |
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Here are some update pictures
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/foaldreamer/album?.dir=/ecd6&urlhint=actn,del%3as, 1%3af,0 |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 65.92.103.219
| | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 05:32 am: |
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Thank you Jan. Sorry to hear about your mares. How are they doing now? Also keep wish or guessing he will turn out. You seem to have a gift for that.Must be the Native American in you. LUCKY! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 111
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 12:29 pm: |
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Thanks Raven and of course I will keep wishing praying that your colt will continue to grow and stay healthy! He is a sweet heart! I hope my foal from Jade ends up being a Medicine hat, but if a paint of any type it will have a forever home with me My mares have been on the domperidone for two days now and I have just seen a little thickening of Jades udder this morning, so far so good. I will post pictures tonight, I could not get Digger to pose for a picture so I will try to get one tonight, no udder development for her at all yet, but maidens can be different. Will keep everyone updated. |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted From: 65.92.103.219
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Jan by any chance since you are part Native America. I would really love to call my guy by a Native American name but I do understand that you have to get permission and have it blessed by the elders of a tribe. Something along the lines that will fit him being sweet,kind and soft but masculine at the same time. I realy love the indians heritage and would be honoured with that privalage. Since I do not know anyone that is indian or part, could you do me the honour of asking the elders that you know?
Very glad to hear that your mares are doing fine. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 113
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 09:01 pm: |
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Yes Raven I would be honored to do this for you. I hope you do not mind the name being in my tribes language (Choctaw)
This is an updated picture of Jade taken today she is 333 days. As you can see by the udder she has just begun getting a thickend udder. She is dropped and softening at the tail head.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/95f48a95.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/db4d5577.jpg |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 117
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 09:21 pm: |
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Jan - do we need to start a "Jan's Story" link? Raven will be a tough act to follow. Isn't Digger about the same term as Jade? Also, I caught something referencing "hoping your mares were better" I must have missed something and I couldn't find it on the thread. Did something happen? |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted From: 67.71.65.28
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 06:17 am: |
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Jan- I do not mind at all. As long as I can pronounce it.....right that would be wonderful!!! Great that your mares are coming around.
Kathee- you are hilarious! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 114
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 08:28 am: |
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Raven I should have that name for you by this evening. It is an honor to name your horse. Thanks for the opportunity.
Kathee, my mares were being fed alfalfa timothy hay that I was assured by the farmer was fescue free. I found out after testing that it did contain fescue and the Vet felt the reason they had not bagged up yet is because of the infected fescue. I have started them on Domperidone and now Jades udder has just started thickening since taking the medication nothing on Diggers yet but she is a maiden. I could not get a picture of digger she has been a nut the last couple of days.
(Message edited by jan_h on March 06, 2006) |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 118
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 09:24 am: |
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Sorry to hear that... it is scary when things beyond our control happen, especially when we trusted someone else that could have prevented it. How do you test for fescue? |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 117
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 10:26 am: |
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I took a good sample of the hay to our agricultural extention office and they send it out to a lab. I got the results last week. There was infected fescue in the mix. |
Sandy
Weanling
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 28
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 07:32 pm: |
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Hi all,
My bad, didn't copy down the link for the barn cam that is about 60 dollars. Does anyone remember where it is that you can order it??
Thanks ahead of time.
Sandy K. |
windy fillmore
Weanling
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 38
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 07:50 pm: |
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habourfeight they have a web site just search yahoo or google |
Kassie Finley
Breeding Stock
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 106
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 07:54 pm: |
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the harbourfreight website is www.harbourfreight.com
I bought that cam and it works great for us. It is color, night vision, and sound. I love it. |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
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Posted From: 67.71.65.28
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Jan- you must have some strong prayers for growth. I SWEAR that he has grown about 1 inch since yesterday. When I treated his navel yesterday I was able to bend right over him, today I found a big difference bending over him. My boobs were in the way today and not yesterday. Laugh all you want to but it is true!!! So Jan, keep up the prayers you have an amazing gift!! |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 67.71.65.28
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I'll agree with Kathee. The cam is wonderful I JUST LOVE IT. With out it I probably would have missed the birth, to "Ravens Story". I owe it to Kathee for suggesting it to me. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 118
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 09:11 pm: |
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Raven I have the name, I hope you like it and the funny thing is that they did not know your horses bloodline and they came up with (spirit) for the name and in Choctaw it is (chu kash)
it is pronounced chocash, funny that it just happens to have cash in the name eh? Let me know what you think. |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 121
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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I don't know about Raven, but I think it is wonderful. I don't believe in coincidnece, I believe things happen for a reason. There is a reason the name is so fitting! |
Raven (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
Posted From: 67.71.65.28
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Boy did they pick the right name for him. He is soooooo full of spirit! Trying the best he can to out run his mom today.
Jan I love it!!
Just I want to be able to pronounce it right. So the "cho" part of it, would be like the start of saying "choo choo train"(the only thing I can think of right now) or would the "cho" rhyme with "joe"? I just do not want to mess it up.
Jan I am honoured and proud to call him "Chu kash". Please thank the elders for me. |
Sandy
Weanling
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 29
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 10:46 pm: |
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Thank you, I ordered one with night vision and audio.
Sandy K. |
Elena Vieira
Weanling
Username: Opheliaimmorttal
Post Number: 39
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 10:49 pm: |
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Hi! I was just wondering what the camera was called? Like what to search for? Also can it be outside? I don't have a stall and I was thinking maybe putting it on something overlooking the paddock she's going to be in? maybe make a wood box for it to be in? Would that damage it? Also, how does it hook up the the house tv?! Thanks!
Elena |
Sandy
Weanling
Username: Sandysz
Post Number: 30
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:03 am: |
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Hi Elena,
Here is the one that I ordered
91851-1VGA
WEATHERPROOF COLOR SECURITY CAMERA WITH NIGHT VISION $59.99 $39.99
and here is the webpage for it.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Category.taf?CategoryID=770&pricetype=
If that doesn't work go to www.harborfreight.com then click on Home Workshop. Then scroll down to the cam it has night vision,audio,as well as daytime. It was just over 48 dollars after shipping was added.
Good Luck Sandy K. |
Kassie Finley
Breeding Stock
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 107
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 12:06 am: |
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Elena, the cam that we use from Harbour Freight www.harbourfreight.com is weather proof, and can be outdoors. I would suggest a box to keep it in however just to help prevent more problems. But it is in color, sound, and night vision. It is really nice and I think it is $39.00 You can buy an extention from Best Buy it is just a phone cord. We had to extend it to use in our house. but we just dug a ditch about 6" wide x 8" deep in the ground and that worked great for us. Just type in Camera at the Harbour Freight website. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 119
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 07:19 am: |
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Raven you would pronounce it Cho like joe yes.. and kash like cash. chokash. I think it is a very good name! I will tell the elders that you accept with pride and gratitude their kind offering of his name (its a formal respectful way one approuches the elders). I do not mind the way one speaks to them I actually think it is great that we still repect our elders. I am glad you like the name. I like it too. Hope they come up with a great name for my foals too. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 228
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 01:51 pm: |
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E Watkins-
ok, here are photos from today.what so you think?
not as big as she has looked huh?
side view [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5718.jpg[/IMG]
rear [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5720.jpg[/IMG]
front [IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e222/krismoos/100_5721.jpg[/IMG]
i will try to get a better photo of her udder while she is eating this afternoon.
thanks! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 125
Registered: 01-2006
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Hi Kris, she looks much better now, looks like she has dropped. From that side view she looks to be carrying a colt. She is a pretty mare. Good luck on your upcoming foal! |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 256
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 02:34 pm: |
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Kris shes looking really good. |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 180
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 05:35 pm: |
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Kris, she looks large..lol and I agree with Jan, she looks low and slung back in the belly..do you have any idea how long she carried the last foal? that might give you more to go on as to if she's one that carries longer on a regular basis.
I'm outta here for the day, chat w/ya'll tomorrow. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 231
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 07:27 pm: |
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jan-deena- E.-
thanks...she is my girl...that is why i am such a paranoid freak right now! i have had her longer than i have been married! (married 14 years, had her 16 years!) and the thought that she could be carrying a monster and could have probs is driving me nuts! I want to make sure i am there for her! I am glad you too thinks she has dropped, i thought i was just jumping the gun! she only wants to be in her barn today! she has not eaten much hay, she did eat her grain, but in an hours time she had 2 bm's. when i went out to feed she had "juice" on her rear end, thought that was abnormal, then she went, it was soft but still apples, then she went again and it was cow pie, i am just getting ready to check on her again. we have some nasty weather right now, 32 degrees and raining, not drizzle or sprinkles...RAIN!!! I am probably worrying for nothing but I think I am going to lock her in tonight, i need to go finish construction! I do not know how long she carried her last 2 foals...didnt matter then i was young and dumb and didnt know the dangers, now i do, and sometimes wishing I did not! i think her second was right about 340,never counted or wrote things down(you ca bet i am this year!) the first no idea, it was an accidental pasture breeding(darn stud colts )
ugh....she does look better, not so abnormally large as deformed! but still quite large!!!
when i brushed her out today it was like brushing jello, her whole topside and her of her hind end is like jello(wobble wobble)when you brush it jiggles! her tail head is really beginning to stick up too, so she is progressing, but no bag...well we will wait, if nothing in 10 days or so i will have the vet out. (unless something changes before then!)
well, thanks guys!!! |
Lori aka " Raven"
Neonate
Username: Raven
Post Number: 3
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 07:30 pm: |
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Kris, Good luck with that birth. Make sure that you are there she is carrying a wide load. Lady had trouble pushing out Chu kash and she is a bigger mare. How much longer does she have? |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 125
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 09:46 pm: |
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Kris - she has changed shape alot. I kept her pic standing a the hay rack becuase it was so funny! I thought she was right with mine - how far is she? |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 235
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 06:38 am: |
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Raven and Kathee-she is 316 days. her last breeding date was april 26th. she made it through the night! phew! but i am going to really watch her! she is just different, and with loose "poop" yesterday i am concerned. we have storms the next 5 days, rain! (in MN it is supposed to be snow right now), rain on frozen ground makes for a LOT of standing water...not quite good foaling weather, but with this because of low pressure system and full moon next week[14th], makes me really wonder....(i know those are old wives tails...but they were made up for a reason...) any ways, kathee I am glad that her photo brought you some humor, it did me too but that has got to be uncomfortable. another change she has made is instead of side to side swishing of her tail like there is bugs, she is "squirrel" flicking (up and down)not often just here and there, and she has a bit of a shiny clear dishcharge on her vulva.(no smell that i can tell) it is not longer, but the lower end appears opening a bit. should i be concerned about infection?
well thank you ladies...i think were coming to the home stretch, now i am going to be a real freak! i know this can also go on for weeks...so we'll wait and see..... while i wait i will enjoy photos of all the new babies...so keep them coming!!!!!!!! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 131
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 07:22 am: |
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The squirrel flick of the tail is normal from the pressure, the clear looking discharge is normal From pressure too (I get that from some of my older mares that look the same as yours) when they are bred and in the last month. The parting of the bottom of the vulva is also normal from the pressure, you may even see a blood tinged discharge from broken small veins along the vaginal vault that break from the pressure too. Hang in there! We were all in your shoes at one point in our lives and understand completely what you are going through and were lucky to find a few mentors (some from this board or near our homes) that helped us through this. Your not alone and in excellent company with many mentors here! |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 126
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 09:36 am: |
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I am glad she is holding on to that baby a little longer. Dream is right behind her. Her first breeding was April 25. I have this sinking feeling that I am going to walk out to the barn and find a baby looking at me and I will miss everything! My nerves are starting to get to me! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 238
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 11:07 am: |
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last year i bought a mare but she foaled before i brought her home...sometimes i think i like that better, but the excitement is awesome, it is the nerves and fear of something going wrong that makes me wonder why i bred her! i hope she holds on until 320 at least, 330 would be better! unless she has a quick cooker, but thankfully we have gotten out of the deep, freeze, better to foal at 30 or 40 than -20!!!
thank you Jan for the comfort, when i went out this am at 6:00 i noticed once and a while her vulva would push out, then she would take a deep breath, almost like a spasm. still absolutely no change in her udder.....
I THANK ALL OF YO FOR YOUR COMFORTING SUPPORT!!!
THE VET IS SO BUSY NOW THAT IT IS HARD FOR HIM TO CALL ME EVERY TIME I HAVE A MINOR QUESTION! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANKS
i will keep you informed if any changes occur. |
Lori aka " Raven"
Nursing Foal
Username: Raven
Post Number: 13
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 05:29 pm: |
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Come on girls, do we need a director for these foals to be born!!
Everyone get your cams rolling the foals are coming!
Now that Chu kash is here I need a soap to follow as well. You all had mine. Now it is your turn. There is quite a few of you that are very close....details......please!!
all 'ell will break loose for you and there will be a foal on the ground. That is the way it goes! |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 12
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 05:54 pm: |
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We have decided to write a book on our draft mare! She has played so many games with us! She changes from day to day! Much like your mare Raven! She has been at our farm 11 months as of yesterday, she could not have been bred at our farm as we don't have a stallion. She barley fits thourgh the barn door and has a major monster in her belly waiting to run free! She is driving us absoultly crazy! She has ever sign but waxing! The anticipation is over now all we want is a foal!
I will keep you all posted! |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 132
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 07:03 pm: |
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Megan - we need pics of the big mare! My story isn't worth telling right now. My mare doesn't even look very pregnant although she is over 10 months along. She is eating well and other than being grumpy, is doing nothing interesting yet. I could use a good soap to follow. |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 15
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 11:00 am: |
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Try this web site and tell me what you think!
http://photos.yahoo.com/stellasredtopper |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 256
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
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MEGAN- NOTHING |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 195
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 11:21 am: |
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hee, hee.. are we all getting impatient or what? I'm forcing myself to be "calm and relaxed" it's early yet, and just because Sage foaled at 320 days doesn't mean the rest of the gals will come early, particularly the maidens..I think I need a little "yoga"..lol. |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 16
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 11:28 am: |
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Ok lets try this again!
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/DSCF0992.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_DSCF0992.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/DSCF0986.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_DSCF0986.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/DSCF0995.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_DSCF0995.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/DSCF0996.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_DSCF0996.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/DSCF0985.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_DSCF0985.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/TINA3.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_TINA3.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/TINA2.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_TINA2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/TINA.jpg][IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/th_TINA.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
his! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 258
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 12:00 pm: |
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SHE IS BEAUTIFUL! I WOULD ONE DAY LOVE TO HAVE A BELGIAN!!!! WHEN WERE THE PICS TAKEN? |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 12:16 pm: |
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Most of the pictures were taken last week and the week before. Have you heard her story? She is a rescue mare that we bougt at a sale a year ago(April 7th, 2005)she was totaly under weight and her hip bones stuck out bad!We did not realize she was bred till about june! She hasn't stopped eating since! I took her to her and my first driving show in october! I also rode her in a walk trot class! I love the big horse trot! We did some research on her recently and found out that she was picking corn the day before the sale! Eventually we are going to write out the whole story in detail but for now this is the gist! |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 260
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 12:20 pm: |
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SHE LOOKS GOOD NOW! I LOVE TO RIDE THE DRAFTS! THEY DO HAVE AN AWESOME TROT!!! SMOOTH BUT BIG! A FRIEND RAISES CLYDES AND BELGIANS, WE OCCASIONALLY GO FOR A BIG HORSE RIDE! I LOVE THEM! ONE DAY I WILL GET ONE!!! I HOPE!
MAYBE THAT IS WHY SHE IS HANGING ON LONGER, MAKE UP FOR POOR NUTRITION EARLY! |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 202
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 01:19 pm: |
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Megan- she's beautiful, I love Belgians, we had a mare and colt at our place growing up, they were gentle giants! I was never lucky enough to get to ride the mare, I just admired her from the ground. |
Lori aka " Raven"
Weanling
Username: Raven
Post Number: 25
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 02:18 pm: |
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Megan she is a beautiful girl! Boy that will be a fun one to birth out and imprint on! Being kicked from a normal foal is enough let alone a draft!!!! |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 35
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 02:25 pm: |
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She is very pretty Megan.
Please can some one look at my picture on yahoo and tell if they see any differnet in my mare. Just like Kris vet are also busy and can't make it out till late nexts mo which what be good because by that time I will know for sure if she is or not infoal. Can Someone please help. |
Robin Culbertson
Nursing Foal
Username: Murrini
Post Number: 13
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 02:25 pm: |
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Wow! beautiful mare Megan, I would love to ride a big horse, they are so majestic looking! I will be breeding one of my arabs to a freisian this year to have half a big horse... Won't be quite the same though.
Has anyone heard or experienced it being typical for a mare that was in poor condition early in their pregnancy to go long? I'm wondering if that might be my mare's story, the vet was shocked when I got her that she was pregnant as thin as she was. We think she was bred the day I got her by the ultrasound measurments (she was pastured with a not quite 2 year old that was "too short to reach and showing no interest..." we all know where that leads!). She immediatly got good food and quickly gained weight but still had to play catch-up to where she should have been. She is now 355 days and showing some signs but not anything too promising. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 141
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 03:00 pm: |
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Ok Angela I guess I have to be the one to say this, I see no change at all in your mare from last months pictures, I see the angle is different but your mare is somewhat turned to cause her belly on one side to look bigger, to make a accurate assesment I would need to see a side shot not back or front but on the side. If she were a maiden I would say hmm maybe, but since she has had a FEW foals already I tend to say she is not in foal by the shots you have shown, give us a side shot and I can pretty much tell by now if she is in foal or not(but I have been surprised before so there is no guarantee). I hope she is for your sake. |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 210
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 03:38 pm: |
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Jan- I have to agree with you, I didn't want to be the one to say it, but that was the first thing that occured to me. Some of the photos I thought.. maybe.. but some I couldn't tell. For her to be that size mare, and have had foals, I would expect her to look wider. |
Julie Holland
Neonate
Username: Jtimes3
Post Number: 5
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 05:34 pm: |
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ok here is star....what do you think???[URL=http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/starsutter.jpg][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/th_starsutter.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/star1.jpg][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/th_star1.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/star.jpg][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/th_star.jpg[/IMG][/URL] |
Julie Holland
Neonate
Username: Jtimes3
Post Number: 6
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 05:36 pm: |
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The picture of Star where you can see all of her was taken in Feb... a little over a month ago.
The picture of her utter was today....Do you think I have much Longer?????????? She was breed April 10th. |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 450
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 05:38 pm: |
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ohh! Even though the udder is hard to see, I can see a siloiette (sp)of her teats. I think you are getting close. She looks to be bursting at the seams!
Keep us utd!!
Good luck |
Tansy Brassfield
Weanling
Username: Spccutnoak
Post Number: 32
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 06:23 pm: |
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This is our black point dun AQHA mare at 321 days. This is her 5th foal and she is bred to our AQHA palomino stallion, SPC Cut N Oak. She delivered her last baby at 324 days. She is very swollen on her underside of her belly and her vulva is longer today. I have started watching her in case it happens soon.
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e214/tansybrassfield/Koy321days2006003.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e214/tansybrassfield/Koy321days2006002.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e214/tansybrassfield/Koy321days2006002.jpg[/IMG]
I am praying for a healthy foal this time as we have allready lost two this year. I am hoping for a dunolino, but most important is being alive. The nail test ( for those of you who know what I am talking about says a filly) |
Julie Holland
Neonate
Username: Jtimes3
Post Number: 7
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 07:04 pm: |
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well, it is 7:00 pm EST and just went out once again to check on Star...she is kicking at her belly a liitle more and swishing her tail. Her breathing has also gotten harder, she is not sweating or waxed up but will do my usual every 3 hour chks thru the night and let everyone know how it goes in the morn!!!
Tansy, that is a beautiful mare you have, good luck on the healthy arrival, prayers are with you. keep us updated. |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 134
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 08:52 pm: |
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Tansy - I will say a special prayer for you and your girl tonight. I know you have had a bad start to this foaling season. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 36
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 09, 2006 - 09:29 pm: |
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Thank you for anwser my question. I have to agree with you because I have not see any changes so Think she just get a big growth spell. I just keep asking because all my friend say she look infoal but I have to disagree with them. Thank you for the input. |
Kris Moos
Breeding Stock
Username: Kris
Post Number: 269
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 07:24 am: |
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Tansy, oh i pray this one goes well!!!!!
best of luck to a healthy foal!!! and mare, and that you come out ok too!!!
keep us posted... |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 18
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 08:21 am: |
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Thanks everyone! She is a looker! I hope the baby is the same! We hope to avoid the kicking thing! Once the foal is old enough and weened he will probley go to the amish to get a better lesson in manners! I plan to do my own verson of imprinting on him! Him I say that like we know what it is!lol |
E Watkins
Breeding Stock
Username: Evie
Post Number: 217
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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Megan and Tansy- best of luck with the foaling, I hope you each have healthy foals and easy deliveries. ( and both mares are very pretty, I'm not a big appy fan, but I do like that mare!) They also both look like they are carrying nice big foals too..ahh..I'm jealous as I think I'm going to have to wait a few more days to have more excitement at our house |
Megan Diehl
Nursing Foal
Username: Megan
Post Number: 20
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 02:56 pm: |
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My mare's milk changed this am. more of a yellowish color compared to the clear that she had before! I sure hope we are getting close! |
Megan Diehl
Weanling
Username: Megan
Post Number: 21
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 03:03 pm: |
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For all of you that dream of riding the Gental Giants, here are some pictures of this bred mare in October at our first show together.
[IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/elkhornhorseshow093.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/elkhornhorseshow044.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e160/Garina_82/elkhornhorseshow052.jpg[/IMG] |
Kim k
Breeding Stock
Username: Kimk
Post Number: 459
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 05:12 pm: |
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Very Pretty! |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 142
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 07:23 pm: |
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Hi everyone here are updated pictures of my girls, Digger has had a growing spurt the last couple of weeks, she did not even look in foal so we had the vet recheck her at 10 months and she still had an active foal inside. It is so funny that from the side she does not look in foal much other then a bit more weight near the stifle, but from behind and front she is huge. most of the weight came in the last 2 and 1/2 weeks. She is 17 hands and a maiden. Stll no udder yet on Digger
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/1b655c13.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/606797ad.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/1040dcfe.jpg
now from the side she looks to be open.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/d64f647c.jpg
Now finally Jade is starting to bag up yesterday it looked like this:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/a15b639e.jpg
Today it looks like this:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/e481c175.jpg
Here she is:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/cmpsp1/2aced242.jpg
We are in the home stretch! |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 137
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 08:30 pm: |
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Jan - she did spring out. She is carrying very similar to my maiden except your looks more trim from the side. Mine developed the round look from the side this last month. I am glad your girl has some udder development - big chage in the right direction.
Anyone - I have noticed that Dream's shape is changing again (320 days). She seems to be a little sunken in front of and just slightly higher than her flanks (not in the flanks). Nothing major, but a noticeable dip about the size of my hand on both sides. She has been very evenly round up until 2 days ago. She is still very round underneath with no V. Does this have to do with the baby dropping? I don't remember reading about this particular change this in these posts. |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 143
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 09:17 pm: |
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The easiest way to tell when they drop is there is a very distinct dip right behind the breast bone. at the same time it will look more sunkin right at the hip area but fuller at the low flank area. Hope that helps. |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 138
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 09:33 pm: |
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I didn't know any of that. I haven't looked at her breast bone. I'm not sure how well it will show up in a pic, but if it does, I will post it for everyone's opinion. |
Lori aka " Raven"
Weanling
Username: Raven
Post Number: 33
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 09:48 pm: |
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Jan- your finally on the home stretch Long awaited and hard time to get there but you are. Won't be long now and you will be having two bundles of joy to play with. Is that the milk veins popping on Jade?? We'll be thinking of you |
Jan H
Breeding Stock
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 146
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 10:07 pm: |
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Thanks Raven, yes we are finally getting there! her udder is about 1/2 full now so I think it could be a day or a week or more, but she seems to be changing quickly so I am thinking less then a week. I will be testing her milk very soon and will keep all informed! Its been a long wait but will soon be over then comes the hard part getting a couple of other mares bred and waiting another 11 months, but the hard work is with the foals...yes we just have to love breeding horses...takes special people to do that! |
Julie Holland
Neonate
Username: Jtimes3
Post Number: 8
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 07:37 am: |
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Hi all,
Can someone please look at the pics I posted on thurs and then look at these and tell me if you see any changes. Star is so miserable and so am I, she still has not waxed up, tho I have heard that some mares may not, it looks like she has dropped to me but this is my first foal, she has had several babies. She was breed April 10th.
[URL=http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/starsat1.jpg][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/th_starsat1.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/starsat.jpg][IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f178/jjjtimes3/th_starsat.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Thaks for all your help
Julie |
Deena
Breeding Stock
Username: Morganslil1
Post Number: 260
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 11, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |
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Julie star is very pretty Im not sure if shes dropped or not. |
Danielle Roosen-Runge
Weanling
Username: Rolling_hills_quarter_horses
Post Number: 27
Registered: 09-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 04:47 am: |
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Julie doesn't look to me like the foal has dropped... we are on the same waiting game... my mares are both at 337 and 338 today. |
Julie Holland
Neonate
Username: Jtimes3
Post Number: 9
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 08:39 am: |
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Well, Thanks for your in put, think you are right...but today she has had a little bit of blood coming out..not a lot just a drop or two, noticed it last night and called my sister in law, she said just to keep a closer eye on her, she is not straining or anything, but just was kinda a shock to see. I got up every hour or so last night and nothing, this morning noticed a little more blood and a little clear liquid, again she is not straining or showing any other signs of labor. Gonna be a long day!!! will keep ya posted. |
windy fillmore
Yearling
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 54
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 09:38 am: |
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Hey I started a new thread called Let's all post pics of our preg. mares -part 2 so it would be easier to keep up without going through 450 old messages. |
Bobbie E. Decker
Neonate
Username: Mywinema
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, July 13, 2006 - 11:39 pm: |
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Hi, Im new at this. I just found out last Sunday that my husbands Mare has milk. We traded a gelding for her about 10 months ago and have no history on her. she is big but i dont know when she is due |
Dottie Rutledge
Neonate
Username: Drutledge
Post Number: 9
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 11:06 am: |
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I also don't have a clue when Maggie Mae is due. We got her in February from an old (drunk) horse trader who said they bred her to the big Percheron stud that was in the stall next to her. I'm sure that little detail was forgotten many, many beers ago. But, she is getting as big as a house and now has 2 lumps on the underside of her belly and yellowish discharge from her vulva (which seems to be loosening). Not much in the bag area...a little bit of swelling. Anyone wanna give her due date a guess?
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/drutledge5150/maggie8.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/drutledge5150/maggiefromside.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/drutledge5150/maggiesbutt.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h127/drutledge5150/sideviewofmaggie.jpg |
Beth Nesbitt
Weanling
Username: Ponygirl
Post Number: 49
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, July 14, 2006 - 12:14 pm: |
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Hi,
I also have a mare with no due date. Mine is a pony. |
Bobbie E. Decker
Neonate
Username: Mywinema
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 12:07 am: |
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Hi,
Well We decided to take misty in tomorrow and get her palpated. The vets office said that they can get an infection with the same symptoms as a pregnant horse.I did check her milk and it is sticky like colostrum. I cant wait till tomorrow.
How do i get pictures on here? |
Beth Nesbitt
Yearling
Username: Ponygirl
Post Number: 51
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 09:08 am: |
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Bobbie,
Let us know what you find out about your mare. What disease is it and what are the symptoms?
Most people use photobucket.com to post their pictures. |
Angela Barbour
Yearling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 51
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 11:34 pm: |
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Hi,
Here is my pregnant mares. She is 16 days today.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j259/ghalishahadi/My%20Horse/Picture025.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j259/ghalishahadi/My%20Horse/Picture026.jpg |
Kathee McGuire
Breeding Stock
Username: Katheekj
Post Number: 560
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:26 am: |
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Angela - she is fantastic! Did she foal this year? I don't remember seeing her...she is gorgeous! |
Angela Barbour
Yearling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 52
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 - 10:15 pm: |
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No This is her first foal for us. Thank you she is a doll |
Barbara J. Seyfert
Neonate
Username: Seyfertb
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 03:01 am: |
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I am new to this forum stuff, and I would like to be able to post pictures like everybody else. But, I have no clue how to post pictures. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks |
Beth Nesbitt
Yearling
Username: Ponygirl
Post Number: 60
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 08:30 am: |
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Barbara,
I just figured this out myself. Go to photobucket.com and open an account, then you upload pictures to share. Next post a link to your pictures in a message here.
http://photobucket.com |
Becca
Weanling
Username: Becca
Post Number: 31
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 04:33 pm: |
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pictures of my pregnant mare who is due any day can be viewed. I have all the pictures from when she started bagging thru the present. http://www.banksminiaturehorsefarm.com/pumpkin.doc |
