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I was hoping to get some conformation critique on my mare. This picture is old, so she is fatter now. Our 8 year old wants to do some showing and this horse is the most level headed of the 3 for our kids to play with. What faults does she have? Does my daughter stand a chance getting good marks...

Looks close. I wouldn't leave her. We just lost a colt because of not being there. Don't want anyone else to have to deal with that if possible. 5 min late is too late. Good luck and happy foaling

Thanks everyone. Sadie is pretty depressed. Luckily she is eating and drinking though. I know if will take her some time to grieve. I feel bad for her. We put our 3 yr old filly in with her, and the filly is alpha right now. Very strange to see. Normally Sadie is alpha. She is very happy for the...

Oh, and the more we thought about it after the fact, we are pretty sure he was breech. His head was closer to Sadie's bum than his back feet. We don't think she had gotten up yet. We are so thankful that we still have Sadie!! I know it's easy to focus on the losing the baby and hard to remember...

Sadie had her colt this morning around 4am. He was sorrel pinto, but may have been pintaloosa. He had striped hooves and only a couple white patches on the top of his rump. LONG legs. He may have been around 22-23" tall, but not sure. We didn't measure him. Cute little guy. We had the cams on...

Tired of waiting!! Ugh. Day 341. She is bagging up more and more each day. Today as she is out, her udder is not shrinking, but getting bigger. I'm thinking I know what you are meaning from the foal moving farther forward towards the center/in front of center...looking at a pic from yesterday...

Day 331 and still waiting. Udder is getting bigger and there was what looks to be wet diarrhea under the tail (visible in the pics) this afternoon. We have been having much warmer weather and sunshine. It's been up in the low 60's as opposed to the 40's. Still getting in the 30's at night...

Well, it's getting warmer, for today at least, and we are all pretty much over our colds finally. Our daughter turned 1 on Thursday, so we are celebrating tomorrow with family. I'm up late baking cakes and cupcakes. Since my last post, we also found out that the human munchkin that is coming in...

So we are at day 314/315. Her udder is getting bigger and today felt solid. It's not tons bigger, but a little bigger than it was. She had a couple mixed looser stools earlier, but this afternoon and evening, it's back to the normal "apples". I stuck her in the stall for the afternoon to monitor...

Well, Sadie's udder seems to be getting a little bigger and her teats were pointed straight down this afternoon, which I've heard is typical once foaling is "close". She ate all her dinner tonight, but she is kinda agitated. She won't even come up to me to get pet. Normally she is in my lap...

Thanks Mousie! Good luck with your foaling time too! Okay, so I went out at 7:30 this morning to check on Sadie, clean stalls, etc. She stayed in the turn out instead of the stall, the goofball. She had complete access to it though. Her sides weren't sticking out anymore. A couple days ago, the...

She looks almost like she dropped last night, but she was wet and that may have made a difference in terms of what she looked like too. She doesn't like using her shelter unless there is a major downpour and eats (literally) blankets...so that is why she is always wet and quite often muddy. She...

Thanks guys! MountainWoman, I have seen that chart, but don't know much about color genetics. Also I have not had either of my horses color tested, so it still gives me a ton of options. My stallion has the paw prints, so I'm assuming he is homozygous pinto. All of his colts (yep, all boys for...

My wonderful girl, Sadie, is showing signs of foaling, but not sure about it. She is a 7yr old maiden mare (and I'm new to breeding too). She was put in the pasture with our stallion on April 14, 2013 when our other girl had a nasty 4 day colic (many trips to the vet, but I digress). We decided...

I'm looking for new trailer tires. I have GY marathons on right now, but am looking to see if anything would be better. What do you run on your trailers? A local shop here has Triangle brand for trailer tires (no they aren't in the shape of a triangle ) Does anyone know anything about those...

My filly has changed so much in the last 2.5 years. What color would you say she is? She is 3 in August and need to send in permanent papers at that point. She was originally grulla, but now I'm not sure what to call her. Any ideas? Sire was sorrel pinto, dam was funny looking brownish black. 6...

The trailer is done!! See the first post for the pictures

I agree with all the above (protein, teeth, worming). She definitely needs more protein. Her belly is not a hay belly. She actually needs more of it. I had good luck with Equine Senior active and also Triple Crown Senior. Getting some alfalfa pellets gives extra protein that is lacking. That's...

We are going to stop every couple of hours (not unloading) and just do 500+/- miles per day (unloading every evening). We are utilizing horsemotel.com for our overnights. We are also traveling with our will-be 4 month old daughter and 2 dogs, so we are really going by the baby's schedule in a...

Thanks for the US Rider link/info!! We definitely could have used that/would have used that on our trip when we moved out here the first time!!! I think we are going to be jumping on that opportunity for this trip! I had never heard of them before.