December photos/Equine Affaire: On Target Miniature 2012 foals

[AnnaC]

Morning Renee - hows the cold?

It's 1.09am and all quiet as Renee said but Toffee now down sternal.

 

[targetsmom]

Thanks all - we feel a bit better about sleeping because Toffee set the alarm off around 11:30. But now I see she is being sneaky...she did set the alarm off just now but it seemed to take forever!!!

 

[AnnaC]

So it looks as though the alarms are now working properly? But will keep watching as much as possible today just in case they 'default' again.

 

[Eagle]

Me too Mary. My cold is a little better today thank you Anna but I just but my nail back and Holy potato did it hurt

Eagle was eager to get out and as he pulled on the rope it caught my nail

Now that will look pretty when I go to the party in Monte Carlo

 

[Eagle]

2.10am and all is quiet still

2.20am Toffee is down sternal. Well that didn't last, 5 minutes later and she is up.

2.50am both girls are down sternal

 

[Eagle]

Toffee is out flat at 3.39am

She was out flat for about 10 minutes

 

[Eagle]

4.36am Mary I hope you are fast asleep cos the girls are stood quietly. oops Sox has just gone down sternal

 

[cassie]

Sorry I wasn't able to watch again this afternoon Mary... Glad ur gorgeous girls didn't foal without me n I'm glad the equip age seems to be working better again

Will be watching all day tomorrow

no doc apps planned n it is meant to pour with rain so no fun adventures outside for me lol

Will sit at my computer and mare stare

 

[Eagle]

Sox was out flat for 3 minutes

 

[Eagle]

6.15am so I am signing out now.

Have a great day Mary

 

[targetsmom]

Thank you all for watching and for the reports - they are very helpful! Toffee set the alarm off several times so the photo of her at 3:39 is no surprise. But Sox never set it off and she is the sneaky one that I don't trust at all. I might put the foal buzzer on her as a backup if she makes it to tonight. And I will definitely check the transmitter again.

Morning update: Quick check of udders and both are VERY warm and VERY tight. It can't be too long now (she says pleadingly..)

I am sorry that you guys are not feeling well - you need to take care of yourselves!!!

ETA: Checked Sox's transmitter on and off the halter and it works fine. Moved it back to the original breakaway halter in case there was some issue with the other one. She won't let me check her milk.... I am tempted to lock her in a stall all day with the Foal Buzzer on but I also know it is going to be a lovely day and she needs to be outside with her friend Toffee.

 

[Eagle]

Oh gosh Diane I am sorry. Fingers crossed you get let out for good behaviour. Lol

Get well soon my friend

 

[Eagle]

ROFL I can imagine!

Hugs from afar

 

[targetsmom]

Please tell me it can't be long now.

Photos from this morning around 10:30 AM while girls are turned out.

Sox:

Toffee (this was the best I could do while she was in the back yard):

 

[Eagle]

Very flattering Toffee

They are looking good Mary, if they still look like that when they come in then I think we can get excited

 

[bannerminis]

I think sox will go first as her udder looks real good and her teats look filled. Toffee is there but I think her teats will fill a little more.

But who knows. Will be interesting to hear how they are this evening but surely you would have to think that in the next 48hrs 1 of them will have foaled.

 

[targetsmom]

Thanks for keeping my hopes up!! I think Sox will be first too, based on udder and shape. But Toffee has been doing a lot of rolling this morning, maybe trying to catch up. I just told my husband that I thought we would have at least one more foal by the end of the weekend and he reminded me I also said that LAST week. We have another 4-H meeting Saturday afternoon and I am leaving the plans pretty open. Of course, that could be when one of the mares decides to foal.

 

[Eagle]

Mary I am afraid it is my sons weekly swimming lesson tomorrow morning so I won't be able to watch. I can read the threads so I will keep bumping her up on MS

 

[Charlotte]

My bet is on Toffee! I think she is in the lead udder wise.

Of course, what do I know with the up and down udders here. But I'm still betting on Toffee. To me Sox looks lopsided and I would expect her to balance out before foaling....but maybe she is standing with one leg more forward. I can't tell from pic.

Go Toffee!

 

[targetsmom]

Well, at this point I don't care who goes first, but I wanted Toffee to go first of the three because we don't have any "bad history" with her. That way I worried maybe just a hair less LOL! And at least we know her alarm works. Our plan is to put both a Foal Buzzer (top of halter) AND the Equipage transmitter on Sox because we never got paged when she laid flat out last night as shown on the previous page. We tested the alarm and it works fine when we tilt it, so have no idea what is wrong. And it worked fine for Toffee (several times in night) and it just this second went off for someone rubbing on the fence!!!

Our history with Sox in anything but good - three out of 4 pregnancies while here resulted in dead foals. Before that, she had four gorgeous, wonderful moving horses - 3 drive (or will drive), one just foaled this week at Hytide Farm and another one is due any day at Sawmill River Farm. The gelding is all ready to be shown this season by Sawmill River Farm. And the sire of most of those wonderful foals was our stallion's half brother, SRF Nobility, making them 3/4 siblings to the foal Sox is carrying. Sorry for rambling - maybe I am tired???