OOOOHH There's a baby!!!!! We need pics - can't tell what color it is Erica!
Congratulations!
Please for those of us who don't foal on a regular basis - what did you use to predict she would foal within this short amount of time? (Product names and system please)
Well with these mares I've had for a bit and that have had a few babies the easiest way is for me to just look and feel; I had comtemplated putting her up Sunday but she just wasn't there yet, couldn't get any fluid at all, bag was getting fuller, but not FULL or tight or getting warm.
Tested her yesterday (Pool Test Strips from WalMart) and she tested Ph of like 6.8, and her hardness was 400; both fast and quick as soon as it touched the milk/water( 1.5 cc of milk to 3cc of distilled water) or I cut it in half if mare doesn't have a lot of milk.
So far when they drop to 7 or below on pH you are getting really close, had several test down around 6.2 (lowest on the scale) and when it gets that low I usually can guarentee that night.
Same with hardness, when you get to that 400 level she's ready, though I've had a few test the next highest (1000) and if they are there, usually for sure that night.
Thanks for those that called, I was actually in bed, watched her from abotu 10-11 and she was walking circles and then would stop and eat and I thought she might get to business, but not until I dozed off an hour later.........and her Breeder Alert didn't work (guess I'll be going to get new batteries for both it and the pager, hoping maybe that is the only reason it didn't work) as the light was still coming on when I flipped it over.
Takes me a little bit to run up the driveway to the barn as it's several hundred feet away......and Echo spit her out like it was nothing, already had her out to her hips when I got there.
She's a beautiful tiny goregous headed buckskin filly. Echo's 29" so this girls pretty small, but she's got some long legs on her. Got that goregous Buck Echo looking head.
I'll post pics this weekend, and might spill the "other" foal then too........can't complain about two fillies to start the year; after 13 boys last year (and 5 girls).........maybe it keep going
Ohhh.....and Ms. Geisha's going in for a US Sat night, told Doc to fit us in......I'm sick of watching her
......well not "sick" but I'd like verification that, that growing belly that keeps getting lower and bigger!
OH! - Talk about an adreneline rush
