Happy Appy Acres - Sugar **colt 5/2**and Cheerio angel filly 5/10

[cassie]

I really hope that all goes well for this foaling for you! I remember how sad it was with your mares last time

and we all have our fingers and toes crossed that all will be well with this little ones!

Just wondering if you had your cameras set up yet? will be most happy to watch your pretty girls for you

 

[AnnaC]

This is all sounding very exciting - keeping my fingers crossed for Sugar to have a safe foaling and a healthy little baby. Can you take pics for us when you get your 'hands on' periods please.

 

[happy appy]

Cheerio , the maiden's udder has started too! I am having troubles with my cams.Heather and her son have been working on them for me. I'm looking to get them up mid March.

 

[happy appy]

Well after more than a week and 2 different sets of camera I still don't have a new set to set up for Marestare. I guess I will have to go with the old set that flash back and forth between cams quickly. I was hoping to get new ones but they just aren't working. The girls are sitting at day281 now and progressing quickly.

 

[countrymini]

Exciting. Got any more photos of the beautiful ladies you could share?

 

[happy appy]

I will get more on the weekend. I get home after dark from work and go to school before the sun comes up.

 

[happy appy]

Ok so we have spent last evening and so far today figuring out these cams! What we have done is modified the barn to accommodate the cams that I have. I hated how they flipped from one to the other so fast. There was nothing we could do about that so we dropped to 1 cam instead. To accommodate 1 cam we had to remove the full wall between the 2 stalls. We started that last night and finished it this morning. We have now installed a steel mesh wall between them. This makes it so that we can see through to the back stall well. We also have 2 sets of the same cams, One receiver had issues and needed to be replaced and you could only buy the whole set again to get it. So with the extra set of cams I will have them put up one on each stall for the great moment. That way I can turn them on and only have a clear centered shot of the foaling. Also because of the internet caps that I am dealing with now, I will only get the marestare cam set up close to due date but I will have a logitech cam that can be accessed for quick checking running first and longer than the mare stare cam.

 

[happy appy]

Updated pictures! Theses are taken today at day 285. I'd say we have another 4 weeks or so left.

Cheerio

Sugar

 

[happy appy]

That "she" should be a "they". lol They were both bred on the same day only once.

 

[happy appy]

I have lots of studying to do this weekend. 3 different exams this week. Only 5 more weeks of class room work thankfully though.

 

[Eagle]

Cheerio's expression here is hilarious "DO HURRY UP MUM IT IS FREEZING OUT HERE"

Both girls look great and right on time for a spring baby

 

[happy appy]

I have the girls in today on the house cam because of the storm. Sugar is not happy, that's for sure. She is kicking and biting at her belly and stomping her feet. She also had a soft poop this morning. I hope her uncomfortableness is just the baby moving. She isn't ready to foal yet. Cheerio is loving the bed of deep shavings and is laying around. lol She does like to sleep laying down though, always has. Use to freak me out when she was a weanling.

 

[happy appy]

I am going to try to clip around Cheerio's udder area today. Her bag is starting to fill quickly and I need to remove some of her mammoth fur before foaling. Once I clip, if she is cooperating, I will post new pics of the 2 girls. Sugar should be good in the clipping department but Cheerio is not always so good about it. I might have to get the scissors out and give that a whirl. lol

 

[happy appy]

Cheerio

Sugar

shot of the house cam, should look just like this on Marestare.

 

[happy appy]

Just about to the 300 day mark now. Monday is the safe day. The girls are moving right along well. Udders are coming in nicely. They are both changing shape and spend a fair bit of time laying down to sleep and rolling once they are inside for the night. Cheerio loves to lay out flat a lot so I can imagine that I will be getting a few calls thinking that she is having the baby. False alarms are better than no alarms, that's for sure.

 

[rubyviewminis]

Diane, I have been wondering what front-of-center means?

 

[Eagle]

I think Diane means once the V moves forwards and is no longer in the middle of the mares tummy.

 

[rubyviewminis]

Interesting! You know, Missy got a definite V belly with her first foal, but the last one she never did. She was just well rounded and her flank filled out a couple of months before foaling.

 

[happy appy]

My last one never got the "V" shaped belly either. I will have to see what these 2 get.

 

[happy appy]

So is are the pictures from Day 300.

Cheerio. Last night Cheerio had a hard time. Very uncomfortable. Now today her belly is closer to her front legs then before and her udder is coming along. She has a ways to go but she is a maiden. She is very loose in the tail and her croup area is soft already.

Sugar has very little change yet. She is holding the baby close and in the centre. She has almost no udder which is odd for her. She normally turns into a milk cow.