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Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 63
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 08:04 am: | 
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I thought it would be good to have everyone post at how many days gestation did their mare or mares foal, what did she have a colt or a filly? in this way others can see the diversity of gestational dates a mare can foal at.
I will start, last year my mare rosey (second foal) foaled at 329 days a Filly
My mare maxine foaled at 339 days (6th foal) A colt
I thought it would be interesting and help those who are currently in foal watch or will be sometime this year. |
Alex Abel
Weanling
Username: Paintedhorses
Post Number: 40
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 08:44 am: |
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Well, I cant say anything about last year, since nobody bothered to write down exact breeding dates the year they were bred.
But this year our first mare foaled at 329 days ( just like your mare rosey Jan ) and it was a filly. She was bred on March 16th last year. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 23
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:20 am: |
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Last year my mare when 370 day and she had a colt. That was her 12 foal. |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 64
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:28 am: |
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Over the years I have noticed at least with mine that colts seem to cook a little longer then filly's do.
Alex that is such a coincidence to have two mares foal fillies at exactly the same number of days. Was that filly your mares 1st,2nd,3rd foal?
Angela wow 12 foals how old is that mare? 370 days you must have been going out of your mind waiting for that one to get out...geez...did you have to take a plunger to her or get roto rooter out to get that foal out of that mare giggle. |
Angela Barbour
Weanling
Username: Angela_b
Post Number: 25
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 09:50 am: |
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Lol yea I spend a month out in the barn and try to go to school as well. The foal was 10hh tall at birth. I will upload the picture today to show you how big she was. The vet was starting to think she was going to have twins. The mare was in her 21. She had been a broodmare all her life.
I try everything to help her along. And the mare was so big that she would throw a fit if you try to put her in the pastern to run around she stay in her stall for the last three week because when I put her out she would run up and down the pastern and would try to jump the fence but she was way to heavy to jump and the minture I put the lead rope on her to bring her in she would quiet right down .
So that roto rooter would have help alot and I try to talk to her belly hoping the foal would want to come out but he stay in there . I think he did it because it was cold and then night she foaled was nice and warm.
I don't wish that on anyone because it was along wait and that poor mare. Lol I will show you the picture of her. |
Alex Abel
Weanling
Username: Paintedhorses
Post Number: 41
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:07 am: |
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Jan, I am not sure how many foals she has had total. She had at least 3 here at this ranch, but she probably had a few before that. Its a sad story about this mare. She is fairly young ( 8 or 9 I think) and she has real bad navicular. This years baby will be her last. The owners just alway thought she was a little lame, no big deal. She's been like that for 3 years. I made a judgement call and had the vet out to take x-rays. And sure enough she was diagnosed with a severe case of Navicular. I made an appointment with a specialist for next month to see if we can do something for her or if we have to put her down at some point  |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 67
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:21 am: |
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Poor thing, I hope that is not the case and that once she foals she can live out her life with little problem other than pain management in the cold winter months. Thank goodness she has you to care enough to get her help and offer her a loving home. |
Alex Abel
Weanling
Username: Paintedhorses
Post Number: 42
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:45 am: |
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She already had her foal. And she has been a little better since all that extra weight is gone. I also had a ferrier come out to put special raised aluminum bar shoes on her with extra padding. I dont understand why this wasnt done earlier. Poor horse |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 73
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:03 pm: |
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My mare had her last year, she delivered at 322 days a healthy sorrel colt. We are breeding her again this year to a cremello stallion. To be honest she is a very easy foaler and gives classic signs as to when she foals. She had a looser stool the morning of her delivery, and she waxed about 3 hours before giving birth. She started to bag up about 45 days before delivering. I was worried she }would deliver too early, but she did absolutly fine. And she was an excellent mother. |
Kassie Finley
Yearling
Username: Jkqh
Post Number: 74
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 12:04 pm: |
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oops, the first line there was suppose to be, had her first foal last year.
lol sorry. |
Heather Kutyba
Yearling
Username: Heatherck11
Post Number: 66
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 02:01 pm: |
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My mare foaled Jan 17th at 327 days. She had a colt. This was her first foal.
Last mare I had foaled at 321, and 324 days with her 2 babys...both were fillies. She had uterine inertia, (lost the first one) and she did it again on her 2nd foal but we saved it, therefore we retired her altogeather. |
Sandy D
Breeding Stock
Username: Sbr_appaloosas
Post Number: 176
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 06:59 pm: |
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Last year my Appy mare foaled at 360 days, colt, her 3rd foal.
Miniature mare #1 foaled at 321 days, colt, 6th foal.
Miniature mare #2 foaled at 339 days, colt, 1st foal. |
Kim v.
Breeding Stock
Username: Twhgait
Post Number: 112
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 07:09 pm: |
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My mare went 368 days last year and had a colt |
Jan H
Yearling
Username: Jan_h
Post Number: 71
Registered: 01-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 10:40 pm: |
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I am loving it, it is amazing the differences in number of days, seems equal between colts and fillies, but maidens seem to foal earlier than those who have had at least one foal, this is very interesting. |
Terri Berwanger
Yearling
Username: Terrib
Post Number: 65
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:41 pm: |
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Last year my mare foaled at 337days and it was a colt her second foal. The year previous, her first, she went 334days and it was a filly. Took the colt 3 extra days.
Terri |
windy fillmore
Weanling
Username: Windyf
Post Number: 29
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 11:16 pm: |
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Last year my 18 y/o mare foaled at day 314 a filly that had "cooked" long enough to have all her foal teeth and she was straight up on her hoofs. She was born in mid-Aug. so maybe that had something to do with it. As far as I know for sure she has had two prior foals at least but with her age there could be more. We do know only one foal has been reg. under her and the people we bought her from had bred her but sadly they weren't there for the foaling and the foal had rolled under a fence they said they spent 1200 trying to save it. She foaled out great for us in a stall with no chance of the foal rolling away. |
