I’m addicted to Dove and Ruby. It’s so cute to watch Dove interacting with Ruby in the stall as Ruby runs/bounces around. You know she can’t go far in the stall, but Dove moves to be with her wherever she goes. Ruby’s going to give Dove some exercise when they are out in the pasture.
Come on Chloe . . . get with this happy band.
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I don’t mean to be an alarmist but Dove does not seem very happy with her neighbors. She has charged across the stall in full rage and sent the foal scrambling to get out of the way several time and I have not been watching very much. You might consider hanging a tarp to block the veiw from the nosy neighbors.[/QUOTE]
I know that she did that last night, and I saw her do it this am early… but she is alone in the barn from 7 am today on so I don’t know who she is charging at now?? Or was this from earlier??? I am going to move her to another stall so that she can be by herself tonight (so the Ruby/Dove show will come to an end tonight). I can’t move the stall that Chloe is in thanks to the cams, the stall, etc so it is move Dove/Ruby. BUT if she is doing this when there is no one next door that doesn’t make me happy either, so WHEN did that happen that you saw 092556???
I believe it was between 12:30 and 1:30 when I broke for lunch, then around 3:00. I’m not positive on the exact time. I was a total of 3 charges at the wall and twice she was at the wall going back a forth like she wanted to kill what ever was on the other side, thats why I thought she had neighbors. We will miss seeing Ruby buck and bounce around.
Well I figured out what the ruckus was about… one of my houdini’s managed to escape from his paddock (it was Preston… always busy and always looking for something to do sigh) and made his way to the barn eventually. You should have seen the look he gave me when I rounded the corner and found him in the grass… it was a classic “oh *(&^ she found me out, now I have to go back to the paddock.” LOL Now I’m trying to figure out who needs to go next to Chloe… I think I’ll go ahead and put Cory in that stall for the time being. She isn’t due for 2 months, but might as well start putting her in that stall I suppose at night. That will make the princess happy ('cause she IS the princess LOL).
I know that Ruby was bouncing around a lot today - mom sent me an email telling me that she was glued to marestare for the second straight day (and most of last night too LOL) watching her. She is outside having a GRAND time. She got going so fast, and tried her first buck and almost took a nose dive, but managed to get her legs underneath of her fast enough. Then she goes over to mom and nuzzles her face as if to say “hey, look what I did!!” mom is NOT impressed LOL.
I’m about to clean the stalls then will test Chloe’s milk and let everyone know where we stand tonight… sigh.
OK, so here is the drill for Chloe tonight…
Did the milk strip test… ph is a solid 7.2 moving toward (but not there yet, just moving toward) 6.8. ca is a solid 250 tonight. Anyone want to hazard a guess??? I predict tomorrow night. (or next year LOL)
I did move Ruby and Dove given that Dove has all of a sudden decided that the other horses are talking ugly about her and can’t seem to get it through her pee brain that she might step on her baby when lunging across the stall to “attack the bars”. So in an abundance of caution I moved her out to antoher stall and put Cory in that stall to keep Chloe company. Cory isn’t due until June (she was bred on 7/5) and she is in foal to Oskar (for a full sibling to last year’s filly).
I don’t know if I can survive without my Dove and Ruby fix! Naughty, naughty Preston; he’s so good looking you can’t be angry at him too long.
Mom wasn’t all that happy that I took the Ruby cam off too LOL. But it is better than getting her hurt!!! I swear I will take lots of pictures and post them (y’all will be sick of me LOL).
And no, I can’t stay mad at Preston for long - he just has that personality that when he gets caught you end up laughing instead of being angry with him LOL.
Is anyone looking at the Chloe cam besides me? My feed is weird but I swear it looks as though there is a baby in there
Yes I was checking back to it randomly, and thought I missed it, was is a very wierd & active shadow? A dog? A mini pony :winkgrin:
I looked back again I think it was some kind of weird shadow. Boy was i getting excited there for a minute
Just killing time - need advice - off topic - just got back from my neighbour. Her mare had a nice filly, but she can’t find the teat. Vet came and gave her a bellyfull of first milk, but she still can’t find the spot. Maiden mare keeps moving her butt around so she can see the baby. Milked the mare, she’s kind and lets down well. Syringed some into baby gently. Milk smell all over my hands.
She’s got a sucking reflex - on my thumb, and although she is held right onto the teat, can’t find it, can’t get her head tilted the right angle to reach up. Vet came back again and I came home. Anybody got any techniques for my further knowledge. It may be a long night as I’ve offered to do some time up there for feedings later. I didn’t stay because I think mom and baby didn’t need too many people around. We had given them time alone but nature was not doing her thing in this case.
Foxtrot - a couple of things…1) if mare is moving around, try tying her in a corner (maybe with some hay or a bit of feed) and someone holding her against a wall while another person tries to help filly find the faucet. 2) if mare is standing fairly still, then again tie her, but more in the middle of a wall put one person on each side of her. One person trying to direct filly and the one on the other side of mare, crouch down and that the other side, try to help actually put the teat in filly’s mouth. 3) with person on other side, have them direct some milk at the foal…actually squirt it at her. 4) smear some milk around the teat, some times that’s enough.
I’ve found that with some of the bigger foals or ones that had a bit harder (or longer) delivery, that they have to be bottle fed for the first few hours…that seems to help them build their strength up. Of course, there have also been a few that had no excuse, they were just teat-challenged! LOL. If foal starts to act lethargic and she’s gotten a decent amount of milk, you can also try a bit of Caro syrup diluted in water or in mare’s milk. The sugar will sometimes give one the little boost to get over the hump. If no Caro on hand, use maple syrup or sugar…DON"T use honey.
Good luck! Sometimes they just need that extra help.
As for Ms. Chloe, I got up to check the weather radar…we were under a tornado watch until 10, but the wind is howling here so it woke me up. While I was up, thought I’d see if there was any Chloe action. Sounds like shadow foals!!! LOL Man, I’ve have a few of those. Actually called an owner (bought in-utero) as I was running to the barn only to find out it was a phantom. Boy, did I feel silly! LOL
Come on Chloe!!
Thanks, it is worrying - the thing with this maiden mare is her titties are so small and the bag so tight, there’s no stretch. I’ll be going up shortly again when the vet has gone and check on them. She is a big healthy girl (half ID, out of a Dutch/TB mare). Hope she gets sorted out soon. We had a lamb once that was a bit slow from lack of oxygen at birth so my husband gave it some brandy. That fixed it up right away - but Caro might have been the better way! What’s wrong with honey?
Come on Chloe - we digress waiting for you.
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What’s wrong with honey?[/QUOTE]
Botulism ?
Stinking “phantom” foals!!! LOL. I’ve seen plenty of those myself - and it turned out to be a pile of poop (those are the best lol) or hay that it is mussed up… I was not watching (I am ALMOST caught up on sleep!) but it may have also been Lilly the Lab. She wanders in and out of the stalls all the time. She sleeps with the horses, will scrounge up whatever grain that they drop, and her favorite, help clean the poop out of the stall (what a GREAT help LOL). As soon as I finish coffee I’m going down and I’ll check milk and turn her out for the day. Did y’all see yesterday that she is now turning her butt to me when I come in the stall to get her. She REALLY does not want to leave her stall LOL.
HMMMMMM…
Ok, here is her am stats: ph was a slow (as in, instead of it chaning basically as soon as it hit the milk, it changed a couple of seconds after being in the “air”) 6.8 and the ca was over 250 (since the next highest mark is 1000 for my strips it is difficult to assess… I’m going to guess 300? since it was just barely over).
Chloe also was waiting at the door to go out… which is odd since for the past week I’ve had to drag her out of the stall and she didn’t want to leave.
I’ll be home at lunch to check her and post an update then.
I had one foal with ca around 250 but the ph dropped to 6.2. I’m guessing the ph will be 6.2 this evening, if so I’m betting she will have it before daylight on Wednesday ( my guess 2 am if her ph is 6.2 this evening ).
Anissa, I think you will be less frustrated if you get some strips with more levels… mine were Aqua Chem and they cost $8.50 at the little Ace Hardware in town-- their prices are usually not that competitive so if you live in a larger area you would likely find them cheaper. But hey, what’s 10 bucks compared to foaling expenses?
Anyway, mine have Ca colors at 0, 100, 250, 500 and 1000. For milk purposes, that means once you are past the 250, you know “it matters”. My mare’s pH started moving pretty promptly once she definitely passed the 250 Ca mark.
My other mare is still hovering between 100 and 250, with high pH. She is extremely interested in the baby, but either has not made the connection that she too could have one of these-- or they are not able to speed things up as easily as they can slow things down.
It’s nice to sleep through the night anyway. Funny, after two nights of a full 7 hours, I don’t feel as rested as when I go that first 3 solid hours after the baby was born and taken care of. We have stormy weather, and I was probably worried about a yearling that I moved to a new place yesterday. He had settled in fine, but in a perfect world, he would have had a few days to settle in before there was any weather to deal with. I am sure the weather bothers me (in his behalf) more than it bothters him. He takes everything in stride, such a good little fellow.
Of course she wanted to go out this morning! She’s planning on popping it out in the pasture where no one can see! 
I can’t resist bumping this up higher on the board. Not that I can think of anything to say about “our” Chloe. Last night I wrote about the neighbour’s filly that would not find the teat. Well the vet came and what finally helped was to fill a bottle and teach it to suck that nipple, then put the bottle behind the udder. When the baby learned to reach for that, she was able to reach for the real titty. So all’s well that ends well. So many of you love the babies, I thought I’d hi-jack Anissa’s thread - again. Hang in, girl. Gotta be soon.
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