Congratulations!!
It’s such a relief when they are delivered and doing well!!!
Oh, I am so sorry!! I hope Elvis thrives with his foster mom.
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My mare foaled early on Friday morning around 12:24 am. Mare and filly are both doing well. We had three days of rain so had to delay turnout. Finally got them outside this morning.
Arabian filly born 5/16/2025
sire: VG Juan Inamillion+![BH6A9743|690x460]
dam: FCF As You Wish
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How darling. She looks like a little mini-me of her mother. I look forward to watching her grow up. You know how much I treasure that Sea Captain blood!
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“Wheeeeee!” The joy of life.
Thank you, @DawnJL. I don’t know details, but he looked perfectly happy outside yesterday. His foster mama is a completely different color than mama, so that kind of gave away something had happened.
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^^That pic stood out to me too! Just such a perfect capture of a wonderful start to life
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This filly had been outdoors for less than 2 minutes when she discovered the trench and started jumping over it repeatedly for the pure joy of it! Such a delight to witness!!!
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Watch out, looks like you have a jumper on your hands! She’s gorgeous. It’ll be fun watching her grow. I love her bloodlines.
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How do you deal with kicking in foals? My mares last foal was the sweetest baby ever. Really friendly and easy to handle. This little one is really kicky. He kicked me yesterday and aimed at me again today. It seems he is guarding his mother so if you approach her he will turn and try to kick you. He pins his little ears when you walk up…
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Give some thought to how another more dominant horse would deal with him.
I’d become more loud and scary and shoo him off when he tries to be aggressive towards you. Establish you are the boss with as little pressure as needed to just make him move and change his thoughts on who’s in charge.
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I’d normally leave them feral for a good while, but I’d get a halter on this one pretty quick and do some leading every day. I’ve found that establishes 1) you’re not a threat and 2) you call the shots pretty quickly, even without a dedicated lesson to it. Just normal foal leading.
For a less kicky one, I don’t even bother to halter break until they’re being absolute hooligans and won’t even attempt to follow mom lol
I’d be inclined to get after him within reason, this is not a habit you want him to keep. Max, my colt last year, started thinking he was tough and trying out kicking at about a week old. Fortunately he self corrected by double barreling the wall hard in response to mom biting him for being rude while nursing. That pretty much fixed the problem since his feet definitely stung after hitting the wall and he didn’t like it. Now he’ll flip his butt towards you from 20+ feet away when he’s feeling tough but he’s definitely not a kicker. Hope your boy self corrects soon and figures it out.
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It’s breeding week for Arielle! Cross your fingers that her shipment travels safely tonight and she’s feeling fertile.
I will spare you all the very long story, but for multiple reasons I decided to make a last-minute switcheroo on repro clinics and no longer have a recip mare retained. So the new plan is to flush and freeze on this cycle and then decide what I want to do from there. TBD, but I’ll feel a lot better if/when I have a baby (or two if she twins for the third year in a row, but I feel greedy hoping for that) “in the bank” and am not on a time clock with her.
She was just coming in when I dropped her off Monday. They re-cultured her yesterday just to cover all our bases, and that was clear at 24 hours. Whew. She is collecting a little fluid again so will get pre- and post-breeding lavages along with oxytocin. We are pulling out ALL the stops on this effort.
Sydney’s next check will be a week from Friday. Carina is still just quietly taking her time baking her baby. Nothing exciting to report on that front.
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This works. I have one of those small plastic trailer forks I hold it low and let them kick out at that. It’s low and not close enough to my body. I’m not using my arm or my hands so they don’t associate with me
It usually only takes once. A good surprise prick and it’s done.
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Blessed are the broodmares indeed.
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Day 350 and no sign of baby, or of Arya even thinking about getting ready. I know mares do this all the time, but i can’t help but worry… I’ve seen some pretty intense fetal movement in the past couple of weeks, so i know it’s not a false pregnancy, but… is she baking this one way longer because there’s a problem? It was a very small conceptus at first and was 4-5 days behind in development for quite a while… does that mean anything? UGH… the horses will start going out overnight on June 1st and i will have to separate her and keep her on daytime turnout so i can monitor her on camera. She’s going to hate that. She was supposed to foal 3 weeks ago! 
@ASBJumper, I’m in Kentucky and we have had crazy weather this spring, which I think is also true in other parts of the country? All our mares went way over their “due dates”. (356 days, 350 days, and 349 days for a maiden mare who showed no signs at all before she foaled.) I know it’s hard not to be concerned, but remember that your mare is still in a very safe range for a perfect foaling.
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Thx Laurie… that makes me feel a bit better. Yes the weather’s been bananas and all over the place. Right now we’re having a frigid cold snap that’s supposed to last until Saturday - daytime high temps in the 48-50 range with wind and rain… maybe she’s just being smart and waiting until the good weather is here to stay. 
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Hang in there, @ASBJumper! If you want to make yourself feel better, go back to the 2021 thread and recall Arielle’s 379 day saga. 
(Although I’m half convinced now that the person I bought her from lied to me about her slipping a pregnancy and getting bred back right before she shipped, but I don’t really know for sure either way.)
