Foaling season

[Becky]

I have one mare at 281 days today. Another close behind at 270. More coming up right behind them. I hope the weather is halfway decent for the big events!

How many of you have mares getting close?

 

[HorseMom]

My mare is at 222 days. I still have sometime but I'm getting more and more excited as the weeks go by. Already thinking of names and watching imprinting videos as well as reading up on the birthing process. Thankfully the farm I board at is very experienced with foaling and has a large stall with a camera and heat lamps. I have a great vet who specializes in reproduction, she looking forward to having another mini foaling under her belt.

 

[WhiteTailsMinis]

Don't remind me - time is flying by. We have confirmed 16 of our 24 bred mares and will test the other 8 in January as they were bred alittle later. Our first 5 are due in February and then we spread out some from March through June.

Although the last 8 haven't yet been tested, we are 98% they are indeed bred.

We've been hard at work improving the foaling barn - we got concrete poured, electric (hooray for lights) and water installed in the barn and almost completed the office as we just got the baseboard heater installed last night. We'll have a much better foaling season this year living in the barn. LOL We have a 4x6 window in the office overlooking the 14 stalls so we can stay in the warmth and peer out. LOL

Next thing on the list is the camera system - come on Santa! LOL

Spring is always a fun time of year watching all the foal announcements from all over.

Best wishes to everyone for live and healthy foals!

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

I get to kick back and watch/wait for all of yours until end of May/June.. We were supposed to have 2 April/May babies but both those mares ended up open

but have three mares due starting end of May into mid June.. Will be focusing on getting the two open mares and my new mare bred for April 2011 babies, if I can get them settled early then will more than likely give the 3 mares foaling in 2010 the next season off..

 

[minie812]

Only four and not until the end of Feburary do I start getting a tad worried

We have three foals from 2009 that I held onto to see how they developed. Two are tiny and grew a little since August about 1/2" so they are both now about 25". I am wondering how tiny some of the new foals for 2010 will be?

 

[rabbitsfizz]

STOPPIT STOPPIT STOPPIT

Lalalalala...I can't hear you I have my fingers in my ears what me have six mares three of which are maidens to foal out in under three months??no way, not happening, not me lalalalalala!!!

 

[Lucky-C-Acres-Minis]

I am wondering how tiny some of the new foals for 2010 will be?

Will be fun to see how small ours are with our new boy.. He's a whole 32-33".. The other two boys we've used, Sky is 34" and Buster is 36", both of which liked to throw LONG legs on their babies so they were pretty tall at birth.. The one mare in foal to Doc is 32", she had a TINY bay filly a couple years ago by a 31" stallion, smallest we've had born here!

 

[RockinSMiniature]

I am looking forward in next year!!..

We probably have 2 in foal in this year.

One is due by Jan to May.

One is due by June to July.

We are looking forward to see our stallion's foals!!..

I am hoping to have a colt out of our stallion and raised him and hopefully have someone show him for us in AMHR and AMHA. We will see when the time get closer!...

 

[afoulk]

My first for 2010 is due late January. Getting the foaling stalls ready for this one.

Arlene

 

[Joanne]

My farthest along is 251 days. She should be in stall by the end of January when she will be about 300 days.

Ours normally foal about 320 days.

We have ordered the new Breeder Alert and are anxious for its arrival in January! It has smaller transmitters and more bells and whistles.

Yea a new toy!!!!!

 

[Maple Hollow Farm]

Mine are due starting in late march/early april. I am very excited, I have lots of mares that I have never had babies out of that are in foal, we are expecting a lot of awesome babies out of our Double Destiny son, and I have a couple that are bred to outside stallions!

 

[drk]

I have 6 foals due starting in April... Very excited about 2010 foals

Best of Luck to EVERYONE on their 2010 foals !!!!!

 

[ShaunaL]

I can't wait to see everyone's foals and I LOVE the foal cams

I was lucky enough to watch the birth of a gorgeous little guy in 2009 with no idea that by Christmas he'd be standing in my barn - pretty cool

I gave two of my mares a year off and just have one foal due June 5th. I am really excited but at the same time very very nervous... The mare bred is my little mare Whitney who some of you probably remember from last foaling season when she had a gorgeous little colt at only 282 days and he passed away

The year before that I had purchased her in foal to FWF Little Wardance and she lost that foal around 5/6 months

Just hoping for ONE foal out of her, filly preferred but happy and healthy is all I really want. Whitney will be 21 in March and probably deserves some rest and relaxation after all this. My nerves are shot already!!

 

[REO]

I'm sorry Joanne, your post made me laugh!

MY mares fart along too!

I don't start breeding until the Verrry end of April or May, so my first ones are due late March. That's earlier than is usual for me. What was I thinking??? Brrrr!!

I need to make more double thick baby blankets!

So my farthest along one is Rose at 8 months. Whew!

I must be nuts! Foaling from March til Sept!

 

[Katiean]

Mine are due January to March. since April was the last time Dusty was with the girls. By Princesses bag I would say she has another 3-4 weeks. Do you think I let him winter with the girls too long? He is in his own pen this winter. He has the chickens to bug and keep him company. Thank goodness I only have two due. It could have been all three. The first due is a snowcap appy. I bet we get color out of her. Then the other is my BTU granddaughter. I don't think there will be color there. But, The color we get could be interesting since she is a black bay by a buckskin and he is a silver something that AMHA is now as we speak figuring that out. I decided they could figure it out better than me. I sent them a ton of pics so they could.

 

[TheCaseFamily00]

Anyone need a babysitter?

Are any of you on marestare?

 

[Ellen]

Case Family, we soon will be up and running on WeFoal and ould love extra eyes. I have a suprise foal due , well anytime. We think March but when ultrasound all he could say was past month 7.

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My beautiful Barbie is due June 1. She is my gorgeous visual frame. I am soooo excited to see what she has for us!

And our Medicine hat Overo is bred to a stallion I recently sold and is due May 21.

We slowed down this year on our numbers. Next year we may have a few more and we will be breeding with our new boy and will also have a 2 from Ronaele Carpenter's Buckeye WCF Classical Majic. So hope we have your support for next season as well. Thank you!

 

[Minimor]

We have just one foal due in 2010, and that won't be until early June--possibly the 3rd week of May if the mare goes early as she often does. That's a bit later that ours usually arrive but we had waited a bit, thinking that we wouldn't breed anyone this year. Then we decided yes, we'd try one breeding to our young palomino stallion and I think when we decided that the mare we chose had just gone out of heat. By the time she came into heat again it was getting on in July.

Thank goodness we don't have any "surprise" foals due this winter--this country is much too cold for winter foalings. I'm thinking that by late May we won't even need to get our foal blankets out, though having said that....the one year we did have a huge snowstorm on May 14th, with one mare that foaled in the middle of that storm. We were lucky that she didn't have any trouble, because there was no way the vet could have got here in that storm.

 

[LAZY J MINIS]

I'VE GOT TWO MARES TO FOAL NEXT YEAR. BOTH ARE DUE IN MARCH. IF YOU KNOW THE DATE THE MARE WAS EXPOSED THERE IS A FOALING CALCULATOR ON BAERCREEK MINIS. ACCORDING TO IT MY GIRLS ARE DUE THE 2ND AND THE 26TH. WISHING ALL OF US A HAPPY AND SUCESSFUL FOALING SEASON.

 

[Reble]

I have a mare due Febuary, sure would be nice if she had it on my Birthday...

Hoping for at least 2 more this coming year, had no foals last year, so had to buy two.

I did enjoy seeing all your wonderful foals..