Mare ready to foal?

[cassie]

off to bed now night all!!

oh and yes I am a vet nurse and I agree it is great knowledge that you learn!! I really love it but I have done three weeks in a row and I'm exhausted...

 

[MeganH]

I say they are expecting.. not sure about the last one but probably..

now tell us

Cassie- what kind of hospital do you work at? I worked at a dog/cat hospital. I really enjoyed it.. I'd like to work with large animals/equine tho too.

 

[AnnaC]

Sorry guys - just a few more hours! Just dashed in to check on the girls, Cathy is on her way with the two mares and thier foals and will need help unloading. Then we have to go tramp the fields to find the three girls she wants to take back with her and get them loaded up. by that time, if all goes well, it will be my boys tea time, so answers around 7pm (4 hours approx from the time at the top of this post)

Also wanted to say that, looking at Cassie from the top as she is standing now, I think she has 'fallen away' a bit at her back end - not quite so round looking???? So we are progressing.

 

[MeganH]

I agree with Anna. Suzie does seem to be changing shape from this angle

 

[breezy farm]

halter is off, I have it on while she is out in the paddock as she is a little hard to bring in, and they boys and dad are always coming and going with firewood so she is easier to control.

Suzie was lying down before when I got back and didn't get up till I was in the stall with her, little sweety, I'm guessing that the foal must have been pushing against her rear end while lying down as she was VERY red behind!!

I read where their V-jj , woohoo, whaterver you want to call it, goes from pink to red just before delivery, is that what you mean about her being very red?Karen

 

[MeganH]

Boooo... just saw Templeton again

 

[Lindi-loo]

off to bed now night all!!

oh and yes I am a vet nurse and I agree it is great knowledge that you learn!! I really love it but I have done three weeks in a row and I'm exhausted...

Yes long hours and hard dedicated work not for everyone..if your about to go home for the evening and an rta comes in as an emergency its not like you can get your coat and say bye..Suzie is crashed out 1 eye open as always

 

[Eagle]

Also wanted to say that, looking at Cassie from the top as she is standing now, I think she has 'fallen away' a bit at her back end - not quite so round looking???? So we are progressing.

Anna thinks you are fat Cassie

 

[AnnaC]

Oooooop's did I actually say that - I must have done coz it's down there in black and white. My sincere apologies Cassie, put it down to old age, being in a rush and fingers that I just dont seem able to control!!

Well it will give everyone doing 'catch up' later something to laugh at! LOL!!

I'm tempted to go back and change it - but I think I'll just wait and see how many notice it before they 'turn' on to this page!

 

[Equuisize]

LOL LOL rude Rude RUDE, Anna LOL LOL

Better think of something really nice to say now.

 

[AnnaC]

OK, here are the answers to my puzzle pictures.

Ignoring the first picture of the spotty girl, the next two of the large grey mare - not in foal! Black Bess (guess she was black once and has had black babies) is 27 yes old and last had a foal in 2008 - if I had included a pic of her bag, you would have said about 3 weeks to foaling. LOL!!

Jelly, little chestnut mare - not in foal, she's 13 and had a filly last year which we have sold - brilliant home so felt we were silly to refuse the offer.

Tiny Heidi - not in foal, she's 21 and now retired. We got her in 2004 and she has had 3 babies for us (she foals extremely easily, vet sais she has a very wide pelvis for one so small) There is a lovely picture of her with her young son on my Foals (2007) website page. She looked so well in 2009 we decided to try for one more foal, big mistake! She carried the fol and foaled easily as usual, but then went down like a pack of cards. She just put eveything into her son, and in spite of all our best efforts and piles of food, she just went to what I would call very thin. A warm stable and as much as she could eat kept her going through the winter, but it has been in the last few months on good old Doctor Green that has really seen the difference and she is now back to her cheeky, pushy, demanding, sassy self! But I want to see a few more pounds on her back before the winter sets in. So yet another pasture pet joins the retirement club here at the farm!

I wasn't trying to fool anyone with my pictures, but perhaps some of the newbies here will see how difficult it is to tell if a mare is actually in foal, just from looking at them?

 

[AnnaC]

Nancy, I have come so near typing Cassie instead of Suzie many times in the past! LOL!! I admit I do have problems with remembering names - and it is very embarrassing when being introduced to new folk I can tell you. My main problem here is that Peanut's topic is called just that and I have her cam on my favourites as Peanut's cam, whereas Suzie's topic is not named and Suzie's cam is on my favourites as Cassie's cam Not sure how that happened, but it did, so, being me I get more confused than normal.

Just hoping Cassie will see the funny side of it when she wakes, as I was genuinely saying how I noticed a difference in Suzie's topline -- now did I get the names round the right way this time? LOL!! I think so.

 

[AnnaC]

SUZIE's not looking very comfortable is she? Lots of huffing and puffing and shifting her back leg around, bless her.

 

[Equuisize]

I understand - I was just giving you a bad time....I am the same.

I'm bad with names, too. Not so hot with faces, either. My long

dead mother, I used to say I'd not recognize her at the mall, if

I saw her there, without me, cause she was supposed to be home

making us cookies. LOL

Your photos, as with Karina's yesterday, I think will be very helpful

for those still questioning what is happening with their mares.

Don't know why these wee ones are so hard to tell....other than it's

so easy for them to 'fluff' out. (we don't say fat/it hurts their

feelings)

I should get a photos of our 'big-boned' girl. She is not built

like any of her fine boned full sisters.

She's been in the fat girl pasture for 2 months and is just now showing

slight progress, in her weight loss.

She is shorter than her mother but looked every bit as pregnant as Zoe

did before delivery. She draws calories from the air.

Suz need to just not lay in that position...she seems to huff and puff

when she's in it.....

 

[bannerminis]

Nice to see Suzie hasnt disappointed and not foaled

Also as on cue as the sun comes up she is waiting for her breakfast

 

[AnnaC]

She's like clockwork - just a bit early! Love the way she still has the straw on her back from her last roll - I thought she was going to roll right over when I saw her doing it!

 

[cassie]

MornIng all Anna it's fIne lol it's happened a couple of times in the past no harm done we all know your tallin bout suz hehe

I work at a small animal clInic yes but we do slot of reptiles too we now have a dwarf mini colt that we just rescued he Is the clinic pony n soo funny popr little baby was left to starve I'll try take some pics of littleman today

We even once had a pelican in the surgery hehe n we have had echidnas do you all know what they are??

Anna I'll try take some photos of suzie tomorrow I was thinking last mohr that her bum seemed to have flattened out? Why do they do this? Off to Feed the ponies then I better go to work tho I'd much rather stay in bed lol

She had a sniff of her poop just then lol

 

[cassie]

if we could please keep a good eye on my girl today, hard I know being in the paddock, she is VERY swollen, long and VERY RED!!!! like not just for 2 second red but the half hour that I was out there for she was red when I went out there and was still red when I left, might not be anything but if we could just watch her PLEASE!! I really want to stay here if any of you see anything can you please let me know? I will get my bro Russell to come home and check her and if he thinks she is in labour I will rush home!! I will try and keep an eye on the posts, I'm not supposed to be on the camera but I might check it at lunch time...

 

[AnnaC]

Have a good day at work Cassie. I'm off to bed now but will be up again my your early afternoon/Peanut's early hours of the morning, so catch you later.

 

[bannerminis]

I know what they are - actually I saw them on a nature program recently and are the Aussie version of a hedgehog except they lay eggs.

Discovery channel is good for something LOL.

Suzie is as cute as ever stuffing her face lol