I’m so glad to hear it @scrbear11!
Keep that baby in there a few more days, Bee!
COTH was down for most of the day (at least for me), and I was having virtual foal watch withdrawals! Any news, @Texarkana or @scrbear11?
No foaling news on my end (obviously, as my mare is only about 260 days along), but some breeding news. My fancy little palomino - daughter of my broodmare - gets dropped off at the vet clinic on Sunday to (hopefully) be bred for the first time! I’m so excited to see if she can reproduce her awesomeness that I can hardly contain myself.
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WONDERFUL news!!! Go Bee!! 
So Jesse was admitted to University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center today. It’s day 371 and my nerves were just shot. She had been acting like she was in stage one labor for a few days now, and I couldn’t take it anymore. I have never had one sitting on go like this for so long.
Good news is the foal is healthy and active and in position in utero. The placentitis she was treated for at the breeder’s farm seems to have responded to the antibiotics (I had left that detail out for y’all). So apparently she just spoke to @Montanas_Girl’s mare and decided to try for her own COTH record.
She’s staying there for the duration. This is already the world’s most expensive foal I didn’t ask for.
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Hang in there, @Texarkana! My mare went to the University of Tennessee at day 373 and ended up foaling at day 379. Maybe Jesse was reading that saga when you weren’t looking. Hopefully everything will turn out as well for you as it did for me. If nothing else, at least you can get some sleep now!
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Oh no about horse-pital, but glad she is doing better!
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I know I shouldn’t be laughing but…OMG…horses. 
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It’s ok. I have had a really good sense of humor about this whole thing because I find it absolutely hilarious. Especially after so many years of failed attempts recently. What else have ya got for me, universe? 
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Hi All,
Have been reading all of your beautiful foal updates from here in Oz. I went through foaling season here on my own last year and read the entire 2021 foal watch thread whilst waiting for my mare to foal in November….might sound a bit stalkerish, but I feel like a “know” some of you after reading about the Saketini foals and Montanasgirl’s mare that held on forever!
My mare’s story last year ended up being quite heartbreaking. She was diagnosed with end stage kidney disease at around 350 days gestation. Thankfully, she delivered a healthy colt on 27 Nov. She was euthanised when he was 8 weeks old - it was “time”. Was very sad to lose her, she was by a successful WB stallion here in Aus and out of a Diarado mare. Her colt (now 4.5 months and going well) is by my Souvenir x Brilliant Invader line stallion, his first foal.
Phew! After all that, I now have two more mares in foal to my stallion, but obviously being in southern hemisphere, will be waiting til our spring, so they are due early Sept and Oct.
I have 2 more mares I am looking to breed next season. At this stage a TB mare to a Kannan x Vivant x Heartbreaker stallion & I’m looking at using Britannia Royal to a WB mare (was so excited to read someone else breeding to Britannia Royal!)
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Thanks. I made it sound ‘simple’ in my very brief synopsis above, but it was anything but. Mare was in ICU for 2 nights when they were trying to work out what was going on with her kidneys.
Once we knew there was no treatment available, it was a matter of take her home and see if we got a viable foal. The hardest thing about renal disease is they stop wanting to eat. The fact she successfully foaled him & then fed him for 8 weeks is a miracle. Well, a miracle supported by me in nursing her along. I didn’t sleep much from the time she was diagnosed until she was put to sleep.
The mare was only 5…the whole experience aged me about 10 years.
How is your mare going, dare I ask?
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I’m just curious, did they determine what caused the kidney disease? I lost my dog to acute renal failure. He had a bacterial infection (sepsis). Don’t know how the infection started but he went from fine, to death’s door very quickly.
I’m so very sorry, @AusEventer. That’s a heartbreaking story. I hope this next season goes much better for you.
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It was only because she went off her feed in last few weeks of pregnancy that we suspected something was very wrong. Bloods showed very elevated creatinine and urea. Urinalysis confirmed it was permanent damage.
Ultrasounds of her kidneys showed abnormality in their appearance, not consistent with toxicity. Given the mare was only 5, had never been treated with bute etc the best answer vets could provide was that she was likely born with malformed kidneys that were a ticking time bomb. Kidney failure is very rare in horses, far less common than in dogs and cats. Unfortunately it often doesn’t show any obvious symptoms until a horse has less than 30% kidney function.
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Well, my breeding luck is holding this year, it seems. Got my young mare to the vet clinic this afternoon only to discover that she ovulated either last night or this morning. So we made a 150 mile (round-trip) haul for nothing…BUT at least we can be certain that she’s no longer transitional, and she should be set up perfectly now to short cycle back in to breed next week.
Horses. Never a dull moment.
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Ugh, so sorry! I am waiting for my mare to show signs of heat so I can ship her off to the breeding farm. Every single mare on the property except that one has been peeing on everything, including the 27 yo. The broodmare? Nah. I’d really like her to get in foal soon so baby watch doesn’t conflict with show season next year, but she isn’t having it!
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I feel you, @fordtraktor. We were at a horse show yesterday, and my youngster was stalled directly across the aisle from a stallion all morning. Neither one made a peep. Go figure!
This mare was an obnoxious hussy as a two and three year old, but THIS year, naturally, she’s decided to go silent on me. I hope your broodmare decides to give you something to work with soon.
Jesse had a filly just after 8pm! Day 373 so Arielle’s record still stands.
I have some photos from her doctor but feel kind of weird about sharing them publicly, so I will post some when I have my own.
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Hooray! Glad the wait is finally over.
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