Chloe FILLY 4/10 - on CAM 1 tonight, Dove Filly! 4/5 - Dove/Ruby CAM 2 tonight (4/11

[acottongim]

Very long story and kind of touchy… she had twins touching each other in the same horn… Not going to get into the whole saga of everything that happened, let’s just leave it at by day 90 there was only evidence of one foal. (at day 62 the colt was failing (weak heart beat etc) and the filly was thriving) so the foal is fetal sexed for a girl. When she goes down, I am having the vet on his way just in case. We are 99% sure that there is only one foal, but still it is scary. she doesn’t LOOK like she has twins though!

And you can compare the two mares to see how much of Chloe’s nonsense is due to bugs LOL. BTW - this is Dove routinely - she is always this calm.

And yes, I’m THRILLED to be getting a cross - Dove and Tanzeln are very similar (talk about breeding like to like) and with her lines and his we should get something pretty special. And I LOVE the Cassels - they were EXTEREMLY supportive and helpful during this whole process.

[junebug84]

Alrighty, I have to call it a night.

Good luck and safe foaling!!

[acottongim]

Night Junebug… we’ll be here in the am I’m sure!! LOL

[Tallabred]

I have had difficult mares to call. My family would take shifts to watch our cams all night. Our first mare foaled 3 weeks after the vet told us that it could be anytime - check her every 10-15 minutes. That was before our cams!

I then started tasting the milk. Once the milk goes from salty or plain to sweet - they will foal within 6 hours. It is as sweet as the milk left in the bottom of a sweet cereal bowl. This works every time for me. I can get a couple of hours of shut eye without worrying.

[westernrider]

Cottongim, sounds like we have a matched set of mares in some ways.

The one I have been up watching HATES to be pregnant, and is an ambivalent mother. Around the first of the month, she realized that she was not just fat, that I had in fact rebred her. I guess she felt the baby move. You have never seen a more reproachful look on a horses face, she was furious with me. She is the kind that will not push her baby away, she lets it nurse or whatever, but she is not maternal at all. If the baby lays down to sleep, she goes as far away as she can get. The baby wakes up hollering for momma, and she won’t answer the cries. This is the one that I have been sitting up watching on camera. She bagged up early in the month, but sort of stalled and and seems to have shut down for the last week. She has a bag, she’s been pregnant long enough… but I think she flat doesn’t feel like going to the effort of pushing it out, and surely does not want to have to take care of it. She’s past the # of days she carried the last foal. She won’t be 342 til Friday. We have some weather coming in and her vulva has gotten very puffy and relaxed so who knows.

My other mare was last inseminated 8 days later. She is the happiest pregnant mare I’ve ever seen. She LOVES being pregnant, it is sheer joy for her. When the time comes she lays down, pushes once, then looks at me as if to say, hey, come on and help! Once that baby is born, she is the most attentive and devoted mother you can imagine. Her baby lays down, and she stands guard, lowering her head to check about every minute. She will almost lift a hind leg like a dog peeing, to give a baby better access to milk. She is an incredible mom, I think she’d literally put her life on the line for her baby.

The first one is already on straw, but I’ll have to add more if she really gets serious. So far, no wax but tonite I did see thicker/maybe building to wax liquid on one side. I usually tuck them in around 10-11 then watch on camera for a while to determine when I need to set the alarm to recheck.

[acottongim]

OK, I had to laugh… .that is Chloe and Dove. I have no idea how either of them will be AS mom’s but that is them pregnant! Dove has just had the most contended happy expression on her face the day she was bred… I didn’t need to do the 14 day US (I did of course) I KNEW she was preg and so did my vet… It is actually good she was the one with the twin issue as she literally would stand for up to 20 mins with no one even holding her head much less a twitch or sedation while she was ultrasounded. Trust me when I say that this was a VERY researched and calculated decision and NOT entered into lightly and we had LOTS of stuff going on that made this happen. It is NOT something that I will do again though as I’m almost physically sick to my stomach with anxiety at this point.

Chloe on the other hand has pinned her ears almost constantly since she was 9 months preg she is such a GROUCHY preg mare LOL.

She almost looked like she was going to go down a sec ago, and a while back she kept poking - not really biting - her side first her left for some time, then her right… she is weird tonight.

[dressagetraks]

My Vincent mare lives on a hormone high while pregnant. She feels SOOOO good. She’s galloping, frisking, acting like a yearling on a cold morning, right up to the last day. In fact, I can actually tell very early, well before US, if she actually got pregnant - at least so far. It’s like somebody souped up her engine, added a few more cylinders, and put in 110 octane gas. She’s never a calm and placcid sort, but she’s a chestnut beach ball when she’s pregnant - YEEEE HAWWWW!!! Loves the foals, too. Lives for being a mother, which is good since due to bad leg, she’s a career broodmare.

What was hilarious was watching her last spring. She had had a year off, and I bred my Mustang to an Arabian for my 2007 foal, trying for a toy for me to play around in endurance with (got an extremely nice toy, all I could have wanted except gender, and look forward to many years of playing around in endurance with him). The Mustang is a hyperresponsible worrier anyway, and she worried through her pregnancy, then worried over the foal. She trusted me, but she worried about everything else.

But the Vincent mare looked so forlorn. She stood at the paddock fence with ears and neck slumped and stared at that foal. If any horse on the planet should be having a foal, it should be her. Didn’t I know that? It should have been hers. It just wasn’t fair. Sigh. Cruel world, where other mares get to have a foal now and then. She did at least get to be nanny mare when he was weaned, and then I had to wean her after that, not that she got milk for him, but that she got so bonded, while he, actually, could take her or leave her. I’m absolutely convinced that she would be a nurse mare for any foal if she had milk at the time.

She’ll be delighted to be bred in a few weeks. Then she’ll be a beach ball again, bouncing merrily around the pasture.

[acottongim]

Don’t you love them?? That pony of mine, is very ummm… skittish is a good word (was formerly abused I think). BUT as SOON as she is preg she is a lovebug and is very calm. My FARRIER could tell she was preg at day 3 - we just have to wait for US to confirm what we KNOW. Cory (my chestnut) just gets a glow about her - which is exactly what Dove did. Then there are others that eh… you don’t know.

Chloe keeps looking like she is going to go down…

[Castlegate]

my mare (chestnut) got white spots instantly when she caught with twins…two days after she was AI’d this last time she got them again…never had them before…and now…2 days ago…they started to come back…I know its hormonal…not sure what the connection is but it has something to do with her being preg. She is also much more affectionate pregnant…and not nearly as skiddish…so I am hoping that holds true when she sees her first baby! She’s up on marestare now…Castle Gate Farm.

[acottongim]

AWWWW… I went and looked at her… you are nice, and kept her in the dark on night vision!! My girls are not as lucky! LOL. All I could see was her rear end though… she was at the far end of her lovely big stall facing away from us all! :lol:

[pony_grandma]

It just occurred to me, as I was mare staring, that you could sell advertising. Hang a banner in the stall. Put a sign on that tail, since we’re staring at it, and let her swing it around. It would give us some reading material…

[acottongim]

:lol::lol::lol: What a great idea!!! Of course, with my luck, the mare would go and STAND in front of the banner the entire night and the advertiser would be upset! LOL

[Castlegate]

That is SO funny! My hubby owns a landscape company seriously hurting from the drought here…maybe I will put one of his lawn signs in her stall! lol!

I only have the lights off because I dont think she is anywhere near close…at least I hope not…she is only 312 days…

its so funny to me though…that stall is 12X24 and she is 17.1 and LOOOONNNGGG so it doesnt even look that big…for kicks I put my Haflinger in there and she ran around!

[pony_grandma]

6,236 hits on this thread. Marketing heaven. Or maybe just punchy from the endless mare watch.

[dressagetraks]

Ain’t no drought here. We’ve had over a foot and a half of rain in the last week. And a good bit before that. Got a few more inches just today.

I made a vow winter a year ago, after paying 3x for good hay and having to turn over rocks to find it, that I would NEVER in my life complain about rain again. Cheaper hay, cheaper hay. Dollar signs falling from heaven.

I hope some of this moves over to other parts of the country that need it, though. I have plenty now; I’ll share.

[Castlegate]

I used to hate the rain because I couldnt ride…now for all the reasons you mention above AND the fact that without it the state of NC imposes mandatory water restrictions that make landscaping almost impossible…so while we were paying double for hay - we were also earning 1/2 of our normal income! Bummer…no complaining for me anymore about rain…bring it on!

[HorsRdr477]

I can’t get on marestare due to having a Mac computer, but I have been checking this thread constantly looking for breaking news Good luck!!!

[tbmorgan]

Good thing I snarfed down the rest of my bag of chocolate covered espresso beans a while ago…looks like I’m going to be a captive of Chloe & Dove TV for a while tonight! Now, off to get something to drink and finish making my spinach dip so I have something to munch on, and then I’m settling in to watch horse butts for a while.

Katja

[pony_grandma]

Is this a Breeder’s Anonymous meeting?? Hello my name is… and I am a compulsive pregnant mare watcher.

I feel compelled to watch, my baby horse addiction. But reality will start to set in soon.

[westernrider]

I think Dove looks more sincere than Chloe.