Classic K Miniatures thread. pics and updates on my mini's

[AnnaC]

Oh your poor parents - that is a really tiring journey! Are they just having a holiday or visiting friends/relatives? Whatever, I hope they have a good time - no idea how the times work but I will be waving several times today in the direction of London, just in case they are on UK soil at that particular moment!!

Been busy here lately making a start on the basic work towards converting our stone barns for residential use (just in case we can sort out the finances). Old tin agricultural barns have been dismantled (were my foaling barns!) and the block built lean-to up against one of the stone barns is now almost down (where I stabled the boys), roof and timbers have gone and today the walls come down! The boys are now under the remaining tin barn in makeshift stables and thank goodness the girls wont be foaling until July coz I have nowhere to put them - think they will have to go over to Cathy's place again this year!

Our entrance to our house looks like a building site now we have started working on the block lean-to (big machines make such a mess!) But between this building and our house is an area or lawn and at this time of year it is more or less covered with snowdrops. So, for the last couple of days yours truely has been digging them up as fast as they show up to try to save them from the wheels of the nasty machine that will be sitting on this lawn to 'push' the last block wall down. I have five huge 'baskets' (like the Tesco delivery baskets), two wheelbarrows and loads of pots full of snowdrops so far - no idea where I'm going to put them, but just had to 'save' them, but will have to find somewhere else for them to go before they need to bury themselves back again into the ground! If we had finished the residential work then two new gardens will be created and I would love to have planted them there, but obviously they wont wait that long, most worrying!!

Have been collecting pics of all the work so will try to post some in a few days so you can see the mess LOL!!

Cassie, sorry you are not feeling better - I think a trip to the Docs is called for if there is no improvement by tomorrow. ((((HUGS))))

 

[cassie]

Wow you have been very very busy!!!! Hoping it will all work out for you!! Thanks Anna, yeah this is the second time I have been feeling sick like this but this time was worse :s

Mum n Dad are going over for Business... a hardware show in Germany LOL n are extending it n going to Switzerland and Austria n back to singapore... they will be gone a month... so we are baching it over here, I just made Chicken Parmijana which turned out VERY nice if I do say so myself LOL I only had a little piece as my tummy still feels yucky.

Penny seems really calm tonight which is so good! I am so proud of her learning to stay in a stable at night what a good girl she is.

Anyway headed to bed.

Night/ morning all!

 

[Wings]

I seriously hope she IS hiding a bub in there. I'm just naturally suspicious after 3 of my mares turned up empty and one of them had us all going right up until she squatted, winked and peed in front of one of the stallions

Turns out she's just had a few foals and her figure (and udder!) aren't what they used to be

Have to say it's handy having the stallions here to dob in the girls

I guess all you can do is wait it out!

 

[Eagle]

Thanks for the update Anna, sounds like you have been very busy but whilst you are saving the world and all it's snowdrops PLEASE be careful not to over do it.

We all love snowdrops but I love you more

I have been very busy this morning and guess what I have been doing ?? I am not telling

but I am very excited

 

[MeganH]

Oh Diane- I am so sorry! She was a very pretty filly and looked so much like KC

I am sorry she did not make it. I hope you don't mind if I ask.. but have you recently given any shot or anything to your mares? I actually had a dream last night Laney foaled and the baby was barely making it.. and I woke up. I was there with her and didn't even realized she had foaled. It was a scary dream. I am praying for you and your mares

Cassie- I hope you are feeling better. About a year ago I went to the ER after hours of horrible pains I had never had before on my left side. (I was on the couch in tears and my body normally handles pain very well.) They were sure I would have to have surgery.. but after being scanned and several tests they couldn't find anything wrong with me and ended up saying they thought it was a virus. I never got sick though so it was very odd. I really hope you get better and it is nothing serious. Praying for you too

Anna- you sound very busy! Good luck with all of the work you are doing and as Renee said- don't overdo it!

 

[cassie]

Oh Diane, you poor thing!! You must be just gutted! Have you had a few abortions this yr?

she was a stunning filly glad you will be doing the cross again

Oh I forgot to add Anna be careful!!!!!!

Renee what have you been up to our sneaky friend??

Thanks megan I'm sure it will be fine to just wanted to check it out

 

[Eagle]

OH heck, Diane I am so sorry, she would have been just adorable. How may have you lost this year? No wait! not sure if we should talk about it until after the foaling season or we will all go into a state of panic.

Hugs and prayers coming your way my friend. (((((((((((((((((((((((()))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

 

[AnnaC]

Oh Diane, that is just beyond sad - it is tragic. I'm so very sorry for you and for your Momma mare and her lost filly. It happened to us last year with Cotics, except that at just 4 weeks before she was due, Cotics had just started signs of a bag, but out in the field just an hour or so after Cathy last checked them, a tiny filly still in the bag. So very sad as our little filly certainly looked as though she would have made it if the bag had split. Needless to say, the next day Cotics was running with milk, bless her! Your little filly certainly looks a little 'younger' than the one we had. Sending you big ((((HUGS))))

WOW!! Cassie, your parens are really going to have a wonderful trip! Do they trust you all to be 'home alone'? LOL!! Dont forget that trip to the Docs tomorrow - you need to be 100% for this next month.

Renee - no secrets allowed amongst friends, so tell all there's a good girl!

ps. Dont worry, I'm being good - working all morning and sleeping for a couple of hours in the afternoon!

 

[Equuisize]

Diane, so sorry to read of your loss, this morning. Sending you wishes that re-breeding will bring

you a wonderful foal next season.

Anna, saving snowdrops is important work but take care of yourself, please, not to overdo.

And Renee, secrets between you and all of us?.......Nooooo, can't be.

Megan, I think those kinds of dreams the closer you get to foaling is the norm. I think it's our brains

way of working out possible situations we could run into during foaling.

I know Zoe talks to me towards the end of her pregnancy, during the night. It's no wonder we're

exhausted by the time foaling is over.

And now Ms Cassie......hope that doctor appt. is soon, that they find nothing wrong but a appendix left

to go bad is nothing to mess with.

Happy Monday everyone/Tuesday, to you Aussies ...... woke up to very thick frost on everything but

being able to count the stars last night and the sunshine, this morning, is lovely.

'Kids' were frisky going out into the pastures this morning, frost and a morning without rain agrees with them.

 

[StarRidgeAcres]

So, so sorry Diane. Hugs to you and your mare. By little sweet one.

 

[Eagle]

In respect of Diane's loss I will tell you all my secret tomorrow.

Megan did you ever dream of leaving your baby in the shopping trolley when you were pregnant? I dreamt that one and also putting the baby seat on the top of the car and then driving off

I think you are in love with your foal already

 

[MeganH]

Yes- I dreamed I lost my baby (all the sudden they weren't in the stroller) and such too. In the dream last night it was a black and white filly..

 

[AnnaC]

Oh yes, I think the 'panic' dreams come to the fore when we are stressed about something, but particularly when we are expecting 'special' happenings.

Just a thought regarding Penny and her laying down stints. Was watching her happily snoozing sternal before I went out to do the boy's tea and now, an hour later, she's down again but in a different position. Cassie do you know how often she used to lay down at night when she lived out? Now is she doing this because she has a nice comfortable bed to lie on, or could it mean that she is feeling more tired after a day wandering about outside carrying a little bubby in her tummy???

 

[Eagle]

it looks like Penny just pooped in her bucket

She is waiting for breakfast Cassie. I hope you are feeling better today.

 

[AnnaC]

Renee, in case you miss where I posted it elsewhere - take Izzy back tomorrow, Wednesday might be too late. Sorry to post here, but knew you would be back to check on Cassie and her tummy pain.

 

[Wings]

Diane I'm so sorry

Megan, I think those kinds of dreams the closer you get to foaling is the norm. I think it's our brains

way of working out possible situation we could run into during foaling.

I know Zoe talks to me towards the end of her pregnancy, during the night. It's no wonder we're

exhausted by the time foaling is over.

I get them too and it was worse after Ashanti lost her baby.

So I packed and repacked the foaling kit, did a few foaling rehersals on what I knew where false alarms (Went outside to check with the whole kit etc) and rewatched all my foaling vids. Finally I reassured myself that what would happen would happen, the dreams subsided and the next mare to foal was my lovely Twinkles who wants to create the new event of "speed foaling"

You've seen Derby and now Sterling so she's obviously doing something right!

I think it's so hard to let go of our anxiety and put our trust in our beautiful girls, after all we want to be there to help reduce the risks. At the end of the day they know what to do, it's not a lesson to learn they just know. I find that very calming.

Doesn't mean you won't see me in a complete panic as my foaling season comes closer

Can you all just remind me that the girls know what they are doing?

 

[cassie]

Morning all sorry I didn't post earlier had to take Jonny up to the bus.

feeling a little better today, but still have the awful tummy pains so to the doctors for me later today... hoping they will just tell me its a tummy bug but I have had it for 3 days now which isn't normal :s

I don't mind Anna as I said aswell on Liz's thread I agree with going back Tomorrow... if she was accepting him today... then tomorrow you might just sneak another one in...

with Penny lying down Anna, she isn't a mare to lie down much at all... when she was in with Smartie she used to lie down when he did, but the last few months I haven't seen her lying down much at all... she did lay down outside the other day and had a good roll... but she isn't like Suzie who used to have her 10am sun bake LOL

still not much change happening udder wise...

I really don't know what to think especially as I am sure I have felt movement yesterday and this morning... I have just made up some new fly repellant so hoping that will keep the flies off her as she shivers alot to shake the flies and its hard to tell if it is baby movemnt or her movement... last night I am sure though the baby (if thre is one ) was giving her some good kicks... as I saw one, then felt one then saw Penny flinch a few times.... so I really don't have a clue LOL

Anna I would love for it to be that she is lying down due to the little baby!!

p.s we are on flood watch! meant to be getting a real heavy rain storm come through tomorrow, thursday and friday and they expect floding of the hawkesbury, closure of windsor and North Richmond Bridges... that's us... I might get that second stable ready to put Suzie n Finn into n Smartie in the outside of the stable...

I can't put Suzie Finn and Penny in one stable can I?? what are your thoughts?

 

[Wings]

I wouldn't put them all in the one stable, if you were sure Penny wasn't pregnant it could be worth a try but because the space is so much smaller you dont know until you see how it changes some of the herd interactions.

For example Lyric and Derby share a stall with each other and a paddock with Special and get along great. But they can't share the stall with Special as it crowds them all too much and Special gets pushy, not nasty, just pushy and it isn't fair on the babies.

However Penny might feel much happier if her buddies are in the neighbouring stall! Spesh hates being up by himself even if he can't see them he knows they are there. So that is certainly worth setting up!

 

[cassie]

yeah I was thinking the same thing, thanks Bree... I just wanted to check.

Will see if my brothers will help me start clearing out the second stable tonight... lol

everyone here is now talking about this flood LOL it'd be hilarious if it didn't happen LOL

we are trying to talk my Uncle into bringing the pump up from the river just in case... as Dad isn't here to do it, and if we get lots of rain it will get real boggy real quick!

headed to the docs in an hour hoping everything is all good...

 

[weerunner]

Diane, it sure was a filly to dream about. I certainly dream that someday I will foal out a foal like that here in my barn. I'd be sure to keep it, colt or filly. HOpefully you can get another one just like it if you repeat the cross.