Zenyatta on foal watch... IT'S A BOY!!!!!

[CVPeg]

I just saw the video on HRTV, and the interview with the Mosses. Really fills your heart up - the colt, Zenyatta being a great Mom, and the Mosses’ emotional reaction.

But then the funniest thing happened in my own house. While I stood there in front of the TV to watch, my Irish Wolfhound, Toula got up, walked over to me and nudged me. In the house she’s a couch potato - rarely getting up except to go run outside. But awhile back, I taught her a trick, “Where’s Zenyatta?” which she responds to by waving her leg in the air. While the Mosses were discussing Zenyatta, she then directed her attention to the screen and just stood there totally focused. It was just the funniest thing, so I was laughing at my own dog, and crying watching that beautiful colt and his immortal Mom.

[RainyDayRide]

the video is available on the hrtv web site…

http://www.hrtv.com/

Nice to see they got the pair outside in the sun yesterday.

[ThisTooShallPass]

Yep, I had already posted the HRTV videos in Off Course. Cuteness abounds with Zennie & her colt! And Dottie sounds like they are working upon a plan of action to keep the adoring public updated about “His Cuteness.”

[FatDinah]

He must be a tall little guy, he barely squeezes under momma’s belly and that’s pretty far off the ground with her.

Z looks great, sounds like it was an easy, picture perfect birth for her.

I am so happy for the Mosses, they can have anything and everything money can buy but this is happiness that money can’t buy.

[armchair_Quaterback]

[QUOTE=Laurierace;6185785]
People who obviously know nothing about newborns were freaking out over his first attempts to stand and insisting he had something wrong with his hind end. So they pulled the video and released a very short one of him lying next to her.[/QUOTE]

Ahhh, that’s too bad. Remember when Zenyatta was retired? There were posters on COTH and the various racing forums bemoaning Z’s fate. She’d become nothing more than a baby factory and facing imminent death every time she foaled.

That being said, Zen and RA gave racing fans enough thrills to last for years. I’m glad that both had healthy deliveries–now if we could only pass along some information about mares and foals to the folks tuning in to the happy event!

[Catsdorule-sigh]

Ahhh, that’s too bad. Remember when Zenyatta was retired? There were posters on COTH and the various racing forums bemoaning Z’s fate. She’d become nothing more than a baby factory and facing imminent death every time she foaled.

That being said, Zen and RA gave racing fans enough thrills to last for years. I’m glad that both had healthy deliveries–now if we could only pass along some information about mares and foals to the folks tuning in to the happy event!

Unfortunately, you can’t. Those who want to extort about every little thing they know nothing about, will continue on even with the facts thrown at them. Just like with Barbaro’s brothers- it’s nice they have fans- it would also be nice if they allowed themselves to actually become educated. These are the same people, who one minute, say Zenyatta would be safer on the track, then the next, if ANYTHING went wrong, attack people for not getting her off the track. You can go over old posts if you like about Barbaro’s brothers and see the same thing over and over again. They get a reality check, calm down a bit, then are back at it again in short order. :no:

[danceronice]

Oh, lord…what are these entitled fans going to be like if they don’t like the colt’s name?

[Zu_Zu]

LOVE THIS VIDEO !!! THANKS FOR POSTING ~~~

Thanks you for posting this video RainyDayRide

REALLY ENJOYED IT !!! :yes:

@RainyDayRide;6187590

the video is available on the hrtv web site…

http://www.hrtv.com/

Nice to see they got the pair outside in the sun yesterday.

[bornfreenowexpensive]

[QUOTE=FatDinah;6187707]
He must be a tall little guy, he barely squeezes under momma’s belly and that’s pretty far off the ground with her.

Z looks great, sounds like it was an easy, picture perfect birth for her.

I am so happy for the Mosses, they can have anything and everything money can buy but this is happiness that money can’t buy.[/QUOTE]

LOL–I thought the same thing. He is a good looking foal—all legs too! It’s going to take him a little while to finish unfolding. Too bad the earlier video was pulled–I love those first wobbly steps!

She looks like she is a good mama and the Mosses looked so happy. Great owners.

[ThisTooShallPass]

Live w/Lane’s End Staff 3/13 1 PM EDT

Special Edition - Lane’s End Staff on Zenyatta’s Pregnacy and Foal

Managing such a high profile broodmare is no easy task, and those responsible for the care of Zenyatta will discuss the great mare’s pregnancy and delivery of the foal during a special edition of BloodHorse.com’s popular Talkin’ Horses podcast at 1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

Racing enthusiasts need to submit questions for for this special edition of Talkin’ Horses by 11 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Mar. 13, one of the following ways: Tweet questions to Twitter.com/BloodHorse using #TalkinHorses; post questions via Facebook.com/TheBloodHorse; or email questions to talkinhorses@BloodHorse.com.

http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/talkin-horses/archive/2012/03/12/special-edition-lane-s-end-staff-on-zenyatta-s-pregnancy-and-foal.aspx

[nasalberry]

[QUOTE=gahawkeye;6185835]
So do you think they’ll let her raise her foal, or will it go to a nurse mare when time to re-breed?

Since she is so high profile wondering if the practice might be different for her…[/QUOTE]
Is it really customary to take the foals off the dam and put them with a nurse mare at time of breed-back? Seems like that would be an awful lot of extra mares to feed - double the mare herd.

[Joanne]

No more diary posts from Zenyatta.com for a while. Some very nice photos of her and her colt on the last post, though.

[LaurieB]

@nasalberry;6192117

Is it really customary to take the foals off the dam and put them with a nurse mare at time of breed-back? Seems like that would be an awful lot of extra mares to feed - double the mare herd.

No, it’s not customary at all.

[ravenclaw]

[QUOTE=nasalberry;6192117]
Is it really customary to take the foals off the dam and put them with a nurse mare at time of breed-back? Seems like that would be an awful lot of extra mares to feed - double the mare herd.[/QUOTE]

I have heard rumors that this is done at some farms, but I don’t know which ones. Might just be rumors. To my knowledge, foals are only put on nurse mares if needed…if the mother dies or has some problem where she can’t raise/nurse the foal herself. I have visited several farms in Lexington and whenever I have seen mares and foals, the foals have always been with their mothers (not on nurse mares).

[RiderWriter]

I’m sad…

Even though I didn’t read it every day, I am really disappointed that Zenyatta.com announced that Z’s Diary would be on hiatus for a while. Yeah, it was a little cutesy-poo, but it did veer into the truly informative and was a great way to find out what was going with the Queen. I guess Dottie is a bit burned out and just very busy.

Supposedly they will still be updating the website frequently with photos and video of the Little Prince, and I sure hope they do. We fans have a bottomless appetite for those two and want to see him grow up!

[Moo_Moo]

[QUOTE=nasalberry;6192117]
Is it really customary to take the foals off the dam and put them with a nurse mare at time of breed-back? Seems like that would be an awful lot of extra mares to feed - double the mare herd.[/QUOTE]

Not sure how customary it is but there is a rescue in Ohio that takes the nurse mare foals and finds them homes, last time I looked they had almost 30 foals. What a shame there is even such a thing as a nurse mare.

[danceronice]

[QUOTE=Moo Moo;6195605]
Not sure how customary it is but there is a rescue in Ohio that takes the nurse mare foals and finds them homes, last time I looked they had almost 30 foals. What a shame there is even such a thing as a nurse mare.[/QUOTE]

Why a shame? Because bottle-fed babies have such lovely manners? Unless you mean it’s a shame because mares die (birthing complications, colic, snap a leg in a pasture, same 101 Ways To Kill Yourself any horse can come up with) and there need to be nurse mares for the orphans. THAT’S the usual purpose they’re there for. If you’ve got an industry with hundreds or thousands of mares foaling out, you’ll lose some and need someone to nurse the baby.

I’ve never heard of foals being pulled early so mares can be bred back. It’s not like they have to be weaned so she’ll come into heat (heck, even the story about humans who breast-feed not being able to get pregnant is just an old wives’ tale) and it won’t kill a foal if she’s taken away for an hour to be covered.

And forget diary entries, I wanna know his name!!!

[Moo_Moo]

[QUOTE=danceronice;6196401]
Why a shame? Because bottle-fed babies have such lovely manners? Unless you mean it’s a shame because mares die (birthing complications, colic, snap a leg in a pasture, same 101 Ways To Kill Yourself any horse can come up with) and there need to be nurse mares for the orphans. THAT’S the usual purpose they’re there for. If you’ve got an industry with hundreds or thousands of mares foaling out, you’ll lose some and need someone to nurse the baby.

I’ve never heard of foals being pulled early so mares can be bred back. It’s not like they have to be weaned so she’ll come into heat (heck, even the story about humans who breast-feed not being able to get pregnant is just an old wives’ tale) and it won’t kill a foal if she’s taken away for an hour to be covered.

And forget diary entries, I wanna know his name!!![/QUOTE]

I think maybe I didn’t clarify enough. Of course it is a shame if the mare dies and leaves an orphan but what about the foal the nurse mare had? What happens to them?

And the bottle fed foals I met were all well mannered.