Oh wow, what a face! Cute cute cute!
Congratulations, @EventerAJ! I see your theme for the year continues. He’s a cutie.
Arielle is at 359 days and STILL just kind of barely creeping along. Her tail head is sinking in even more, which hardly seemed possible a few days ago. Her udder isn’t FULL full, but it is well on the way:
Yet her milk is still testing under 200 ppm Ca and right around pH8:
Argh.
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Finally! I come and check this thread every couple of days to get a hopeful dose of baby cuteness. Yay for another healthy boy! What a looker!
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It confounds me how all that leg is folded up in there!!
I’m always TG for uneventful deliveries! and beautiful babies in the straw.
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YAY!!! Good job, Barb! @EventerAJ, you’ve got enough matching ones to have trouble telling them apart (size & age not withstanding). Glad everything went well!
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Any updates on this little guy?
I just wanna say, I was in a terrible mood until I read through this thread again and saw all the adorable babies. Thank you for sharing them with us! 
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Here are a few pics from today. Bloodwork came back good and he’s doing great. Seems like a really nice mind, so far. Or maybe I just have PTSD from the last Khozan foal, lol.
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Today is day 362 for Arielle, and her pH is just slightly below 7.8 this morning. Her calcium was still just shy of 200 ppm last night; fingers and toes crossed that it finally comes up by this evening’s check. She has a social media following that could rival April the giraffe at this point. Hopefully she won’t keep all of us hanging on too much longer!
Anyone else still waiting? @Trak_Eventer? @EventerAJ, do you have one more to go?
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Day 362 here… still cooking… starting to loosen up more, but no pH changes yet. I’m about to name the foal About Dam Time 
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I’m going to name mine FC Dun It At Last. 
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What a lovely mare. Remind me if you will, who is the sire?
Foal will be by EH Herzensdieb o/o Aurelia NSF (Windfall *Pg *E */Actress/Avginon II)
Really tempted to call it About Dam Time… but I have had a name picked out for a very long time that I am planning on sticking with. She sure is taking her sweet time cooking this one! She is living with a friend on a breeding lease (though this foal will be mine) nearby. Her other mare is 40 days behind mine and looking more ready than mine. I joked that her mare is an Instapot and by is an old fashioned slow cooker. Ready for her to hurry up though!!!
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Oh my… how exciting! He’s a stunner. What a great choice for your mare. I really look forward to seeing the foal. Hoping she goes soon and easy.
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I can’t believe Arielle is still holding on!
Jazil’s Dream made some major progress in her udder today. With a lip chain and a lot of patience I was able to get a milk sample; nothing imminent. Color is clear yellow, pH 7.8-8. Her belly is huge, tailhead sunk, I would guess she is about 4 to 5 days out. But as we all know (
) mares will do what they want!
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Day 364 and still no real movement from Arielle.
I’m about to blow a gasket with one of my Facebook friends. I try to cut some slack to my more…senior…acquaintances for their lack of social media skills/etiquette. But this woman - sigh. I do twice daily updates for my friends/family who want to “be a part” of the foaling experience or learn about it. Twice a day, EVERY day, this woman comments, “The apple will fall when it is ripe!” Okay:
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At no point have I given any indication that I intend to induce my mare. So WTF?
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Apples are actually ripe well before they fall from the tree. At that point, they’re starting to rot. So it’s not even a good analogy.
Whew. Thanks for letting me vent!
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Invite her for a sleepover with her alarm clock.
Gotta love those early to go babies that are an early a.m. surprise in the barn!
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Any way you can change the settings where you can’t see what she says?
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I can just exclude her from seeing those particular posts if I absolutely have to - that’s a handy trick for a lot of situations. 
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