You know…Suerte foaled on March 31 last year… 
:lol:
I’m just kidding Anissa. I just think it’s amusing that we’re watching more fat Trakehner mares again at this time of year. I am really looking forward to both foals if the girls ever get a move on. :yes:
Forgot Suerte is a TK too… that is pretty ironic huh!!!
I KNEW Dove was more sincere!
Oh I thought she was more sincere too… it is just a matter of when… could be in the next 30 mins, could be an hour, could be at 5 am…
I hope that everything goes well and that I will see 2 new babies when I get back. I am off to bed so that I can get up at 5 am to go and pick my daughter up at Georgia Tech. My 9th grader, Lizzy, is visiting my Ga Tech freshman, Marie, for her spring break.
GOOD LUCK!!!:yes::):yes:
Thank you! and have a safe/good trip tomorrow!!!
It’s amazing the difference in those 2 stalls. Chloe’s is so messy while Dove’s is so neat. I think it is their dams that teach their foals whether to be neat or messy.
Are you watching Dove? She is eating the wet hay and also putting more in the bucket. She likes her hay wet.
You know, I used to think that too… but I have two mares (Cory and Tanz) that are PIGS in their stall (Chloe’s got nothing on them). Tanz’s son Tate is very clean, and Cory’s daughter Emma is also very neat. I don’t know about Tanz’s other offspring, but Cory’s son, Preston, is a pig also. Angel (my pony) is neat and all of her offspring are neat too… go figure.
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Are you watching Dove? She is eating the wet hay and also putting more in the bucket. She likes her hay wet.[/QUOTE]
yes i am… she is such a pig with her buckets… i swear she is trying to brew her own beer! lol
Tschadina is a PIG in her stall too. She doesn’t care where she poops or pees. She does keep her water bucket clean though.
well, Bugs is as neat as can be… Frodo is a pig, so…
dove is back to sitting on the wall and not eating anymore
i find it interesting that she didn’t eat her grain, but did eat some hay…
and Chloe is now back to turing circles in her stall… sigh
I guess that shoots my theory all to . . .
Well guys, I’m calling it a day. I hope there is at least one if not two new foals in the morning. Good night.
night…
“Blessed are the Broodmares” - my friend, up in the back of beyond by herself with no vets within a couple of hours read that book and had herself so sweated up with anxiety of all the things that could go wrong, I’m not sure if it was a good thing or a bad one for her first foal. She set up camp by the pen and didn’t sleep for weeks (sound familiar?) and then one morning, after she had turned her out and started to clean up the paddock, she looked into the field and there was a blob. I was just chatting to her tonight and she’s expecting another foal in three weeks by the same Irish horse that my mare is expecting a foal by.
Just came from tucking mine in… I don’t think I’m having a baby tonite. BUT, I am dismayed to report that evidently the mares are sending out “maternity ward” vibes… there was a very pregnant possum in my hay barn! She and I just sort of stared at each other, not really sure what to do. I would have had to move closer to get the pitchfork… so did not do that. So we just sort of stared at each other. I took a step back, and she very slowly, gingerly moved across the hay barn… and then tried to find a corner to hide in behind a stack of big bales. This did not suit me. Yes, she was out of sight, but I was pretty sure she was still there, and to get to the grain bin, or the bedtime hay, I had to move closer to her… and was scared she’d jump out and get me.
So I went outside the hay barn, got the hose and sprayed a jet stream towards that corner, to sort of chase her out-- and meanwhile the doorway was wide open for her to leave. It did not work quickly, but it did work. When I eased back towards the door, she was just inside. I think she realized she needed to leave, and that I was not being aggressive. She left. I sprinkled amonoia on the ground around the doorway. And am leaving the lights on tonite, so hopefully that will make it unappealing to her. I hate that she’s pregnant and needs a place, but I do not want a possum birthing babies in my hay barn.
Hopefully she does not try to take up residence in the loafing shed… I can just see those colts getting into trouble with a critter.
uggg… i really don’t like oppossums… i’m with you, i wouldn’t want to HURT her but don’t want her around my horses either!
They are very ugly… I got the impression she did not see well. I have heard they can be aggressive and dangerous, but she seemed harmless. No overly tame, or disoriented so that I’d be worried about rabies. She just looked pretty pregnant, and wary and in need of a safe place. But, I cannot provide that, and invite the risk of EPM.
I have lots of rabbits, and even a couple of roadrunners that seem to live here. I feel like somehow the words out that this is a safe place with lots of food?
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