Felt the baby for the first time tonight!!! whoo hoo…
Don’t know how many days along she is, she was bred june 18.
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In 3 cases, yes, know 100% that it will be tobiano and with a 50% chance of being homozygous. Know that at least 3 will be black based colors (black or bay) with a 50% chance of homozygous black.
Have had names for years…books of names, lists of names, recordings of names, reservations on names with the registry… names are a big deal!!!
Ruby is beginning to bag up at day 302 but I don’t think anything to worry about, all seems very normal.
I have names for either sex. Colour will be black, bay or liver chestnut. I’d hope for black or liver but hey, doesn’t matter. Sex I really do want a filly but a colt will be easier emotionally to sell. Filly don’t think I could sell.
Neighbour and trimmer independantly guessed black filly.
I say bay colt. :-p
I really don’t mind so long as it’s healthy!
Vet thought it was a filly on one of the ultrasounds, but couldn’t tell for certain as the little bugger never likes to cooperate.
At least the color genetics are very simple…Donni from what I’ve been told was a chestnut before greying out and she was bred to a chestnut.
So should be a chestnut foal with a 50% chance of greying out. 
Now names…my husband says he has the dibs on the name. Hopefully he doesn’t name it something really dumb. He wanted to name it Midnight Rooster for the longest time and I was dying because I think that’s a terrible name, but he said he’s reconsidering now.
Ok - So… talk to me about enemas
I’ve never been privy to giving one, but I know many do it routinely.
- When do you do it after birth (how soon?)
- Are there any administration tips? I don’t want to hurt anyone
- How many would you recommend having on hand? Do you give just one?
- Do you wait until they haven’t passed meconium in a reasonable amount of time prior to administration?
Thanks!
Mare came in tonight and WHOA! Does she look pregnant! The foal halter came a couple days ago: Mare says “you’re not as funny as you think you are.” 
:lol: :lol: that picture is hysterical!
Yep, mine has changed again and looks obviously pregnant now - she is wider and lower farther back. And she finally looked a bit irritated at Miss Trampoline in there. It was another morning where I could not only see movement, but BIG movement, and every bounce/kick/wave Catnip would twitch a leg or swish her tail.
LOL, poor Catnip! It must be really irritating and confusing for them when they feel it move. It’s not like they really understand what’s going on (except maybe old broodies that have done it a million times).
Before I tortured the mare with the halter, we worked on getting used to having her flank, belly, and butt touched and rubbed. I’ve been doing it for months, but I finally got sick of her getting snotty about it. So I’d pet and rub, she’d pin her ears at me or bounce up her hip, I’d yell at her and keep going, she’d stop, and then she’d get a treat. She got the hint pretty quick :lol:. I don’t mind the attitude, but other people may not be so understanding.
LOL, good for you
My vet asked me when she was here last if Catnip let me touch her teats, and I said touch? Not only does she LET me, if she thinks my hand is going back there, she spreads 'em to give me better access :lol:
Just found this thread!
I have a maiden mare, I’m a maiden horse-mommy, and my BO just flew to NYC for a business meeting where where they are expecting snow in a couple of days. Maresy is all bagged up, no drippinig milk so nothing to test, but belly is changing rapidly, dock muscles are lax, and due date is end of the month. Can I please get some prayers that baby decides to keep incubating until BO gets back home?
On the plus side, I have a dr’s appt for me tomorrow and I plan to ask for human tranqs for my sanity!
Is there anybody you can get to come take a look at her for you Jen? If she is truly all bagged up then there is plenty to test. You don’t test what drips out, you express milk for the test. You need to know where you are at with her soon so you know if it is ok to leave her unattended. At the very least post pics of her udder, maybe we can ease your mind a bit.
I’ve tried to get milk out and failed. Is it that different from milking a cow? Her bag is pretty hard, but dang it’s big. I’ll take pics tonight. Vet was out a week or so ago and expected her to go full-term. Farrier disagrees. I just want a healthy mare and foal and a still-kinda-sane Jen. 
Welcome to the madness jen! :lol: What is her “due” date?
Can you sneak a few extra drugs and ship them here?
End of Feb, first of March. As dated by u/s in mid-May. She was a pseudo-rescue who came preggers so exact date of hanky panky is unknown.
Oh Jen that must be painful! Mine is frozen semen and just one go and the wait is maddening enough! My mare is also at the same stage with her bag, it’s there and it’s reasonably big but there’s nothing in it, I have a breeder friend coming over today so will see what she thinks. But I personally think Rubes still has a good three weeks to go, which is about right, and as she is a maiden I expect Rubes to be particularly infuriating although so far she’s doing everything pretty normally.
Ruby is 340 days on the 5th of March but I am really hoping she goes in late feb, I have been on university holidays since November my first day back is, you guessed it, 1st of March. I can and will skip all my classes until bubs arrives but it’s not exactly a good academic first impression! lol
It’s been 40 degrees (104f) last three days here in Australia so think of poor grumpy huge Ruby in the horrible heat. I’ve been giving her baths twice a day and she has plenty of shade and water but it’s pretty miserable, must be hideous if you’re 308 days pregnant!
Poor Ruby!
Riley is a mustang and as such, I have faith that she’ll figure it out. She’s a ridiculously brilliant little girl. But she’s MY ridiculously brilliant little girl and I worry. But she and I had a little “chat” yesterday and I made her solemnly swear to keep incubating until 2/28 and 50 degrees (Farenheit) and sunny. We’ll see if she keeps her promise.
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Ok - So… talk to me about enemas
I’ve never been privy to giving one, but I know many do it routinely.
- When do you do it after birth (how soon?)
- Are there any administration tips? I don’t want to hurt anyone
- How many would you recommend having on hand? Do you give just one?
- Do you wait until they haven’t passed meconium in a reasonable amount of time prior to administration?
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Just buy a Fleets Saline solution enema. I give it right after the foal stands up. Just slip it into the rectum and squeeze the solution in. This will stimulate them to begin pooping and you can watch and be sure the meconium passes.
I’d say it’s not absolutely necessary to use the enema, but it’s not going to do any damage and will help the meconium pass.
Hopefully, someone will tell me that this is all normal…
My mare seems to have a pocket of edema, about 4" wide by 5" long just behind the base of her sternum (left side), where the bottom of her belly has become decidedly heart shaped. While I do have a call into the vet, I never know when he will get back to me. She is at 293 days today and is an older, “experienced” broodmare. She has been quite large since this summer, I think a result of her body rapidly responding to hormones. I would say she is not fat at all. Just enormous. So, is this something else to get really worked up about?
I would be concerned about a hernia. Let us know what the vet thinks.
Thank you Laurierace for responding. I have just heard back from the vet who thinks it is nothing, just edema. “No need to worry”, he says…:lol:
