It’s a girl! My mare delivered a gorgeous bay filly just after midnight last night!
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Congrats on your filly!
Beautiful!!! Do you think she will stay bay? Any ideas on a name for this lovely filly? Congratulations 
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Woo boy, we have a foal on the ground at the farm and the mare is MEAN. Outside of the vets who basically ran at the mare and sedated her, no one has been able to get their hands on the baby. Teeth and feet and she is NOT bluffing. She’s got a halter and a catch line on, but that doesn’t do much good when she will try to remove your appendages.
Any tips here? Even the owners are 100% unable to handle her. You can’t even open the stall door to clean it.
ETA: The mare had some serious unaddressed stall possession/aggression even before the baby.
Gorgeous filly! And gonna wind up being grey just like her momma. Congrats.
@ThreeWishes : the adult coloring on that foal sure screams grey to me
@endlessclimb : is there a way to set things up that the mare and foal can be run out to a paddock or even into another stall so her current one can be cleaned? A farm I worked at had a mare who was savage for the first 2 weeks, so we always created a chute from her stall to a small paddock so we could clean places and fill water, etc without dying.
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I suggested this to the owners last night, to run her into the arena. Unfortunately, the arena is shared use and people were riding. Maybe if they came in middle of the day to do it it might work. The arena has hallways down the sides though, and I have no doubt that mare will try to annihilate any and everything living within reach.
I was willing to help push the mare and baby to the arena until the owners admitted the mare won’t even respect a whip on a good day.
No thanks, I’m not dying. You created this problem for yourselves, folks.
Yikes!! That sounds like there should have been some major planning before now. Don’t blame you for not being willing to sacrifice yourself.
I was thinking if she were mine I’d put a cribbing muzzle on her, that way at least one end is reasonably safe. It’s going to be a real nightmare for these people.
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She will definitely be grey. I wasn’t sure based on the photos but seeing her in person she has grey on her eyelids and very saturated coloring so she will grey out!
I’m thrilled with her. Very brave and independent already. Mom is going to have her work cut for her to keep up with this one! She is huge though. Definitely the tallest foal I’ve had and the breeder who foaled her out for me said she isn’t the tallest she has ever had but she is up there and close to the top for sure. Not what I expected from this breeding, if anything I thought I would get something on the smaller side. It will be interesting to see what size she ends up, I wonder if she might still end up closer to normal sized even though she is big right now.
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Congrats @weixiao!!! Beautiful! (And whoops, it somehow replied to the wrong lost)
I relinquished Jesse’s mare care to a breeder friend of mine. My schedule is just too inflexible at the moment to be dealing with foal watch! I dropped her off today and am beyond grateful she could accommodate her. Jesse is either day 358 or ??? Maybe the trailer ride jostled the baby loose. She certainly looks close; she was pretty restless last night. The adoption organization was trying to get ahold of her previous owner to try to get some answers but I didn’t hear any updates from them today.
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Brie is doing great! She is old enough to live out 24/7 in the big field, so she is less convenient for frequent photos. But she’s getting huge!
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Awww. But look at that big butt! She’s gotta have a serious motor in there.
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So we got that mare out in the arena last night. My god what a nightmare. I had to stand in the adjacent stall and reach through the bars to crack a whip to even get her out into the hall. Then someone else with multiple feedbags to make a racket to push her down the hall (while mom is trying to maul every horse she passes, and redirecting her aggression onto the baby).
Get her into the arena.
There are horse silhouettes painted onto the wall. Mare proceeds to absolutely attack the silhouettes multiple times, nearly knocking herself out everytime because it’s… a wall.
Why do people breed mares with garbage temperaments? This baby is learning a lot, and none of it is good.
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Fingers crossed!!! Talk about an unexpected houseguest too – that is really the ULTIMATE unexpected houseguest. Glad your friend can take over the reins for a while. Keep us updated!!
@weixiao what a GORGEOUS BIG filly… Very excited for you, have you decided on a name?
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I am eagerly awaiting this foal. There is just something about a plain bay STB baby that has always melted my heart.
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Yay! Do you mind reminding me of the breeding on this one? I didn’t see it upthread. She adorable!
Ooh, boy. Do not envy them, but, yes, their doing. I agree, just because it has a uterus doesn’t mean it needs to be used. Would a tranq gun or an oral sedative be an option or would that affect the foal via milk? (Honest curiosity question)
This thread is getting busy and exciting now. I love it! I need something to keep me occupied for the next ~3 months. 
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At this second, the gun would be the only way. You absolutely can not touch her as she will try to end you with her weapons on either end.
I mean, you could try. But I’d want one of those dog bite sleeves and a vest and a full face helmet and… lol
