2022 Foal Watch?

[skydy]

@Texarkana

Thanks everyone. Your jingles are working! She is home again with some medication changes. It looks like the crash may have just been med related and she responded really well to changes at the hospital. She’s getting 7 doses a day of different oral medications right now and she’s feeling well enough to be a total turd about it. Hopefully she continues to improve at home this time around. I told them both to say their goodbyes to the hospital for good.

[skydy]

@4horses your mare is lovely. Hang in there. As has been said here many times, breeding horses is not for the faint of heart.

So glad to hear that your, and Texarkana’s foals seem to be turning the corner.

[LaurieB]

@Texarkana

Thanks everyone. Your jingles are working! She is home again with some medication changes. It looks like the crash may have just been med related and she responded really well to changes at the hospital. She’s getting 7 doses a day of different oral medications right now and she’s feeling well enough to be a total turd about it. Hopefully she continues to improve at home this time around. I told them both to say their goodbyes to the hospital for good.

I’m so glad the news is good this morning!

[LaurieB]

What a lovely mare and foal.

[skydy]

@Texarkana and @4horses, how are your foals coming along?

[Texarkana]

Bogo is doing well, continuing to improve! The lameness is nearly resolved and her bouncy personality is coming back. Hopefully she will hold it together from here on out.

[skydy]

So happy to hear that!

I hope you win big bucks betting on the Derby to make up for your vet bills.

[Montanas_Girl]

Picked my palomino princess up from the clinic this morning. She got bred Thursday night on a soft 39 mm follicle and had ovulated by yesterday morning. Lavage and new Caslick yesterday evening. My vet still wasn’t pleased with the semen (~35% motility and ~47% normal morphology), but the stallion owner says my girl is the only one he’s shipped to all year who isn’t pregnant yet. At least she had NO fluid this cycle, unlike last time. With the weird persistent CL last cycle, I’m wondering if she was still in late transition last time. Fingers and toes crossed that we got it done this time around. Another two week wait begins…

Arielle is at 295 days and increasingly miserable. She’s never been a great grazer/hay eater, but she’s down to only about 10-12 pounds of hay (6 pounds of alfalfa and free-choice orchardgrass) per day. I’d prefer her to eat a lot more; at ~900 non-pregnant pounds, she should be eating more like 18 pounds of hay per day. But I think we’ve reached the point where there’s just no room in her tiny self for more than that. She’s on a grain that includes beet pulp, topped off by a timothy-based balancer, so at least she’s getting a bit more roughage that way. But I fear the next six weeks are going to be rough on both of us!

[Montanas_Girl]

How is Gracie progressing, @Trak_Eventer? I need a good distraction for the next couple of weeks!

[Trak_Eventer]

Slowly cooking lol Day 340 today. Last year she went 369, so I am trying not to get too excited…

[LaurieB]

Day 342 here. waiting, waiting…

[JBCool]

Ooh, 2 gorgeous mamas to be @Trak_Eventer & @LaurieB!

[Texarkana]

Can’t wait for more babies!!! Pretty mommas.

[Trak_Eventer]

Gracie’s first foal, After the Storm LSE aka Stormy, celebrated her first birthday on the 9th

[JBCool]

Love that name, too!

[Trak_Eventer]

Thanks! We had a big Midwest storm with hail and everything the night she was born. Storm lasted all night until about 4 AM. About 10 mins after the storm ended, she was born!

[JBCool]

Nice! A friend of mine had a colt born at midnight in a thunderstorm and they named him XXYY Midnight Magic

[ASBJumper]

I’ve been officially on foalwatch as of Monday night.

Her milk unexpectedly went from thick, orange and sticky (Sunday evening) to runny and cloudy with a hint of yellow tinge Monday evening, so i tested it, and it tested at 6.2pH. So back to the barn i went to start foalwatch. Not much on the go Monday night, and i left at 3 am. Last night she was more agitated and restless, rubbing her butt all over the walls, shifting her weight constantly while standing and not lying down nearly as much. Also doing some weird squatting every now and then… we really thought she’d go last night, but around 2:30 she settled and ate some more and laid down, and was “normal” until 4 am so i left at 4 (chore ppl were arriving at 5 this morning so i wasn’t concerned).

Reeeeally hoping she goes tonight!

[Montanas_Girl]

Very exciting, @ASBJumper! It sounds like you’ll have a foal very shortly.

[Trak_Eventer]

Fingers crossed for a safe and healthy delivery, and then a nice long nap for you!