December photos/Equine Affaire: On Target Miniature 2012 foals

[cassie]

OMG wow what a stressful last 12 hours for you Mary!! I am so sorry that Mira has been sick

and that Bunny has a sore leg. Get well precious baby! I'm so glad to see that Mira is on the road to recovery! good girl sweetheart!

I'll be watching all of them today for you Mary. poor Mira looks exhasuted! I can't see Bunnt right now... but maybe she is sleeping behind Mira? Sox is standing in the corner, can't quite see all of her but I can see her legs and so I guess that means she isn't foaling ahh there is the lovely Bunny having a drink from Mummy

praying for you still Mary! come on Sox, we need to see your gorgeous healthy baby now please

do you know how many days Sox would be now? still watching and praying!!

 

[sar09006]

Clyde is being so cute and a wild man. Maybe his name should be Mounted Shooting lol jk for him liking to mount his mom and run and kick up his heels.

 

[targetsmom]

I can't remember how many days Sox is, except she was due 10 days after Mira. Mira foaled on 4/7 (2 weeks ago) at 315 days. Please don't ask me to do the math, but she is plenty far along. I will check her when we go out now, and also take away the salt block that Bunny is playing with. These kids!!! Am also going to offer Mira some alfalfa cubes with Stomach Soother.

 

[targetsmom]

Nothing really to update except now she doesn't want me even trying to get milk. I really don't need to add getting kicked to my list of accomplishments today. The last time I thought this about a mare was last week when Toffee foaled, so who knows? I just want to relax and get some sleep.

Mira seemed interested for awhile in some old alfalfa hay I found. She wasn't interested in the cubes (not unusual) but I raised her feed bucket so I hope Bunny can't reach it and left them there. Bunny liked that hay too.

ETA: I have no idea what could have happened to Bunny's leg, as we have photos from Friday when it was dead straight. This afternoon the knee was swollen, she was limping and leg was NOT straight.

 

[cassie]

ok lol I won't ask for dates then Mary, sorry. I was thinking about how you said Bunny had water all over her somehow the day before I think it was (can't remember for sure) Mira started with the thumps... I'm wondering if Bunny could have gotten scared by this and knocked her leg? or maybe she got her leg stuck on the water bucket and that caused it? just throwing ideas out there... it just came into my head that conversation...

anyways I'm going to lunch will be back asap to resume the mare staring for you Mary

 

[Eagle]

Morning all, it's 1.50am and all is quiet.Sox is down sternal, Mira and Bunny are stood in the corner.

I am so glad that Mira picked up after her calcium ***, I

she continues to get better. Poor Bunny is now having a little set back and Cassie I thought the same thing about the time the water bucket got knocked and the mysterious neck sweat coming off one of the boys. Mary babies bounce back very fast so try not to worry about her too much, I once had a foal trod on by his mum when I moved them to a new stable, he was lame and swollen, well 2 weeks later he was out in the field playing with the other foals.

I understand your frustration and sorrow as this is my last year breeding probably too, last year I lost a foal so I couldn't finish that way so I just pray this year is better for me.

Get some rest and I will watch the girls

 

[cassie]

ok sorry girls, have only just been able to get back on here... grr we have had internet issues as its now resolved YAY! Sox is down sternal looking MASSIVE! but I can't see anything happening which is good... its harder to see if Sox is up to anything SNEAKY! but at least we can keep an eye on all of them again which is good

 

[Eagle]

Hello Cassie

 

[cassie]

Morning Renee

how are you?

Sox still down sternal resting.

 

[Eagle]

slowly getting better thanks and you?

2.18am and Sox is up

 

[cassie]

yeah good

my hands are getting better, (though I don't think going to the horse show and eating naughty foods helped

)

its raining and really cold again today. going home soon to put the fur kids in the stable... left them out over the weekend but its to cold and wet tonight

2:37am Sox is casually grazing her stable

 

[AnnaC]

Morning ladies! So glad you are feeling better Renee and Cassie, great to hear that your hands are improving - naughty girl for losing the 'diet' over the weekend!

Mary, just catching up with the news from where you reported on the vet's visit yesterday (I went to bed as I saw the vet leaving). What a rollercoaster of a day or you, I'm so very sorry that you had this happen.

I'm so glad that Mira is feeling better, poor girl! It is amazing how quickly that intake of calcium can work isn't it - you can actually 'see' it working within minutes. But Mira owes her life to the fact that you are such a brilliant Mum and so observant with your animals, you are an example to us all.

Poor little Bunny. Yes, she must have given that leg a wrench accidently somehow - possibly when she was involved with that bucket or even outside somewhere, but with these little chips, who knows what actually causes their bumps and bruises? But she is very young so I'm sure everything will heal and straighten within a very short time, bless her!

3.0 am and Sox standing quietly in her corner. Hope you are getting some well earned rest Mary, you deserve it!

 

[AnnaC]

3.55am and Sox just gone down sternal - she looked round at her back end after laying down and I thought........................... but no, she seems to be laying quietly!!

off to do my chips now - catch you all later!

 

[Eagle]

4.30am and all is quiet, Sox did a half roll and got up. Bunny and Clyde are nursing

 

[bannerminis]

Morning Ladies

Sorry I havent posted but had a busy morning but the ladies were up so I could keep an eye.

Glad to hear that Mira is doing so much better. Sox really needs to get her game face on but right now she is quiet as a mouse

 

[Eagle]

I just refreshed the cam and got a heart attack, I couldn't work out what had happened to bunny and then I realised it wasn't bunny it was Charlotte the spider!

 

[bannerminis]

I must say I nearly had a heart attack too it was like something from a sci fi movie and then it dawned on me that it was a spider crawling across the lens but it looked HUGE LOL

 

[Eagle]

6.35am bunny wanted to nurse but Mira kept moving then Mira went down flat. I wonder if I should call Mary? Diane are you watching?

 

[Eagle]

6.40am and she is laying sternal now

 

[targetsmom]

I just got up and will go out very soon to check on everyone - esp Mira & Bunny. Thanks everyone!!