Over and out. (Playing of national anthem.)
Good night, Chloe. :rolleyes:
I feel bad for the giant mini http://www.marestare.com/crosscreek.php. She doesn’t look like she has the energy to move.
I thought for sure she was going to have it last night. She looks so pitiful.
I’m watching both Chloe and that grey mini. Threw my back out at work tonight so I thinking I’ll be watching some mare-stare since I sure won’t be sleeping:no: I thought for sure the mini was about to give up and have the foal. She looks so uncomfortable, she looks like she doing a dance with all the weight shifting she doing from leg to leg.
And Chloe continues to hoover her stall.:lol: Could be a long night, I’ve got the snacks and caffiene at the ready!
See I should have known better to post the links on COTH… it is almost a sure way to get the mares to never have their babies LOL!!! These mares are killling me… Even though Dove is much more “quiet” I too think she is more earnest than Chloe is. I’m also very much afraid that we’ll end up with a double header. THey are stalled right next to each other after all.
Y’all notice how much NEATER Dove is also?? She is just such an all around NICE mare LOL. Except for the dunking the hay (I think she is trying to make her own beer - her water buckets are nasty every am) she is just a clean, neat mare. All poop pee in one corner (off cam even how nice of her).
I’m so sorry you threw your back out crzychestnutrider!!! That STINKS. And I don’t complain of lack of rain either… Let’s just say we went so long without rain last year that the first time it DID rain it took everyone a few mins to figure out what the noise was - we had forgotten what the rain sounded like. Ok, back to my place on the couch - I’ve set up shop in my office on the couch so I can watch both mares not have a baby LOL.
dove is down…
Don’t get excited! She’s a mare, she is joshing!
…and Suerte, I mean Chloe, is still pregnant… 
:lol:
And she is up… that didn’t last long.
How does that song go “Someday Monday - I’ll sleep til noon and go out late”?
Thought it was appropriate, somehow.
Foxtrot - what a great name! If she actually goes today that is! LOL (she better not be NEXT Monday!).
Just a quick update. Dove has WAX this am!!! I am staying home from work (just in case she didn’t read the rule book and doesn’t know that mares foal at night, not during the day LOL and so that I can get a little sleep for what is prob going to be a long night).
Chloe… other than being MORE grouchy (I swear she can’t get her ears pinned closer to her head LOL) there is nothing that has changed on her - didn’t check her milk, just checked for wax on her - there is none).
I’m going to feed, then will turn both girls out for just a little bit while I clean their stalls, then they will both come back in and the cams will be up all day.
OH, and Chloe has sucked both buckets dry last night and yesterday - that is why she has a lake in her stall… she never has done that before, normally (even when it is HOT) she doesn’t drink that much water over night… does anyone know if that means anything??? Just an oddity.
I signed on the computer this morning and thought I saw a placenta laying in the straw in Dove’s stall! I guess a pee spot?
My mares both sucked down full buckets last night. (5 gallon buckets, filled at about 10:30 pm). The first one (my Chloe) now has one side of her bag bulging out between her butt checks behind. Milk starting to go opaque, and now moving from salty to plain, but not yet sweet.
We have some weather threat this afternoon, so maybe the changes are urging her on… or maybe she’s just jacking with me. Whatever.
Oh good move staying home. You need the rest, and I can tell you that six of the nine babies friends’ mares have had in the last month, have been born during the day. I don’t leave the house for more than 2.5 hours, and the last thing I do is check mares to be sure I feel like I can go.
So her sucking down those buckets of water might actually be significant? LOL wow, didn’t really think it was.
Just had about 3 hours of sleep (and need more, but need to take care of the mares then will come back in and sleep more). I’m going out to kick the girls out and clean/prep stalls.
Chloe was sweet/bland yesterday and clear with sugary like flakes in it - very very sticky. Dove has been whiteish (think skim milk) since late the night before.
The “placenta” is a wet spot… actually not even that but where she has kicked the hay off the shavings underneath.
Yeah, I’m just not comfortable leaving today and I was starting to feel sick from no sleep so knew I should not leave! Chloe isn’t as agitated today (this am) though… I really have a feeling that we have a double header coming up - which really would make me happy if they can space it by 30 mins to an hour or so!!
I don’t think Chloe is going to make to this evening before she has that foal. When my mare foaled, it was about 3 hours after she got so quiet that she had her baby.
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OH, and Chloe has sucked both buckets dry last night and yesterday - that is why she has a lake in her stall… she never has done that before, normally (even when it is HOT) she doesn’t drink that much water over night… does anyone know if that means anything??? Just an oddity.[/QUOTE]
I don’t know if it’s the same for mares, but pregnant (feeding) women drink more water when they are producing milk… maybe she is getting ready.
I didn’t notice if my mare was drinking more water few days before her foaling last year, because she has an automatic watering place (is there a bettre word in english for that… sorry, I’m a french speaking woman:winkgrin:)… But I did notice that she was drinking a lot more when she was feeding the foal.
My guess is that you will get a colt. Boys are always slow to catch how things work :lol:
If Chloe hasn’t had sweet milk (doesn’t have to be extremely white) I don’t think she has been as close as we thought. I know there are the unusual ones that don’t have white or sweet milk before foaling but for the most part I’ve found that once the milk turns definitively very sweet they foal within 24 hours. Other’s say within 48 hours but mine have always gone within 24 hours. So with that in mind I think she is trying to get the baby into position. You often see them show signs of impending labor about 7 days before birth and I think it is because the foal is moving into position and making them very uncomfortable. It can look like they are ready to lay down and have it. Perhaps the more it needs to move the more uncomfortable the mare is. I have also had mares show very significant signs like this for a week (sweating, kicking belly, biting sides, agitation/pacing) and then had a less than ideal presentation. Of course this has only been my own experience and my mares are probably just torturing me for their own amusement. 
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My guess is that you will get a colt. Boys are always slow to catch how things work :lol:[/QUOTE]
Yup I’m laughing - A Mommy’s Boy. They don’t want to give up the nest. :lol: Our mare that went a week+ overdue - it was a colt.
I’m not sure the water consumption is significant… in my mares case I figure it’s related to it getting warmer. I do know they will drink two 5 gal buckets overnight once they are nursing… but I doubt the need to replenish the milk til they someone starts drinking the milk. You know, x gallons in, x gallons out…
I think Chloe probably drank it all so she could make a mess of her stall. Dove probably drank hers because with Chloe sucking water down, Dove assumed they must be thirsty.
They are back in to stay. And ready to rock and roll… Not as sure about Chloe, but Dove is going to go today (well as sure as I can be with a maiden). Milk is WHITE, she had wax this am (good amount, not there now, was knocked off) and is WAY sunk in on her rear end. She had a good roll outside also. She also had to go play hussy to the horses in the paddock next to her - silly mare. Oh and her milk is very sweet.
Chloe’s milk is salty/sweet, she is WAY sunk in also (in her rear end), was rubbing her neck on everything outside and without the tail wrap was kickign her belly. She too had a good roll, also had some dried sweat on her neck this am - and it is 55 and overcast here today.
I think that is it. Will keep y’all posted.
Oh, Chloe drank ALL of her water (you may be right wr that she did it just to flood her stall LOL), but Dove didn’t drink anymore than normal. I was just throwing out observations of what was going on in the stall - never really thought it might be indicative of impending foaling! But I do know that they drink a lot after foaling.
I’m going to take another 3 hour nap hopefully - I feel a long night coming up tonight. should one of the girls get serious, call my 579 number (home) that is on the marestare screen. THanks!!!
