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Here is Dreams' udder this morning at 325 days. I've seen udders like this tighten up and mares foal in 2 hours and others go 2 more days. Dream's udder is firmish; just need those nipples to fill and spread apart more. Never mind. I'll try later. My pictures won't upload from Photobucket...

Still waiting. Dream didn't set the pager off last night, so that is a good sign. I'll be going out to feed shortly and hope to have more interesting news to report.

You should see the little table by my bed. The top is covered with a clock, the pager, my glasses, my cell phone and the tv remote. It all barely fits! And when the pager goes off at night and I'm trying to find it without knocking everything off, it's pretty entertaining!

Dream is 324 days today and looking promising tonight. I forgot to take my camera to the barn today, but Dream's udder is starting to firm up. She's been doing some butt rubbing yesterday and today, which she hasn't done previously and I never saw her standing around napping today outside...

Dream has more udder this morning than she's had. I'm hopeful she won't go in reverse now. I'll take pictures and post later.

I'm betting he's silver bay and homozygous for tobiano.

Me too, Diane! The sooner, the better. Dream is 321 days today, so she's plenty far along to foal a nice, full term baby.

Just when I think Dream is progressing quickly towards foaling, she goes in reverse. Yesterday, her udder increased in size during the day and was 'interesting' by night. I'm thinking maybe another day or two. This morning, her udder had gone down and has stayed that way during the day...

Most of my mares do not have white milk prior to foaling. Miniatures are different from full size horses. The milk stays clearish, to cloudy to yellowish or anywhere in between.

Cute pictures!!! Love the pouting one!

Diane, believe it or not, I don't have any pictures from the show! The horses I'm showing this year are awesome and I hope to have some pictures of them soon. My clients have been very good to me. Come on Dream!!

Back from the show and it was a good one. Sr Champion Mare under all 4 judges and Jr Champion Gelding under all 4 judges. Plus a Reserve Champion Sr Mare with another mare. Multiple wins in Multi Color Mares. Plus many other 1sts & 2nds. It was a good show! Dream - dropped her off at...

This weather is terrible for this time of year and I'm heading to KS tomorrow morning for a horse show. I will once again drop Dream off at Charlotte's for the weekend. Moving these late term mares around seems to delay their foaling. I don't like doing that, but I really don't have a choice...

Dream has a pretty full udder this morning, but it's not tight yet. She will be inside today as the weather is nasty. Cold, raining and SNOW in part of the state! I can't believe this weather!!

Here is Dream today at 315 days. From this morning. As of tonight, there is starting to be some firmness to both sides of her udder.

Oh my gosh! I missed all of this excitement today! Congratulations, Mary & Toffee!!! I've been so busy getting ready for a show this weekend, that I hadn't checked in all day. That's great news and it sounds like Dancer is ready to go to. I'll keep checking.

Using August 30 as her last breeding date, your mare is at 244 days gestation today. That is way too early to be bagging up normally and I would suspect placentitis. You need to contact your vet and discuss this with him/her and if he/she feels that is the case, treatment needs to be started...

Glad to hear somebody else uses one occasionally. I virtually never use this, but just curious what Dream would test. I don't use test strips as I can usually tell when a mare is close to foaling by milk thickness and stickiness, but when a mare feels that way for a number of days, it makes...

Oops. Sorry. Here is a link to the Equine Colostrum Refractometer like I have. It tests colostrum quality. http://www.arssales.com/refractometer.html

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Busy last week getting horses ready for a show over the weekend and doing the same this week heading to another show. Dream is still on hold. I thought she was getting pretty serious this past Thursday night as her udder tightened up some during the day and...