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Thanks everyone, I'm pretty gutted. First foal I've lost and I can't stop blaming myself.

My very wonderful mentors are putting up with a lot of teary calls as I seem to keep forgetting what to do, they keep telling me to focus on Lyric and how lucky I am to have her in all her strong and healthy glory considering her start. Maybe in a few days it will be easier but right now it just hurts a lot.
 
SO SORRY! I know you are heartbroken as is your mare. HUgs
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Its not your fault..every one of us here that is expecting a foal and had foals cannot watch them 24 hours a day..we all want to and most of us try but they want to be alone to give birth and will do theyr best to foal when we'r not around..it just wsnt meant to be
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so so sad yes but no way your fault you cant blame yourself for something out of your hands..im sure it doesnt make you feel any better but we'r all thinking about you and Ashanti and we do feel your pain..hope you can start to heal and move forward soon...enjoy little Lyric
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Well Ashanti and I are doing better this evening. I swear as she improves so do I.

I removed the little body around lunch time, wrapped her up in a towel with Ashanti watching and nickering quietly. She looked around the paddock for awhile and then settled in amongst the hay to eat. Every time I go in she glues to me so I know she isn't "over it" yet but she is coping very well.
 
I understand how you feel, I had one Aug 13th loose one in the field and I felt the same way, you can't blame yourself, you take such great care of your babies, sometimes these bad things just happen. So sorry, again.
 
oh Bree, I'm feeling for you it must be the saddest thing and I hope it doesn't happen to me....

but Ashanti n yourself will recover what a strong girl to let you do that, we have had cows try n charge us when they lose a calf n we go to clean it up.... not nice at all...

sending prayers and many hugs!!!
 
Hi Bree, Just wanted to check in and let you know that I am thinking about and praying for you and Ashanti. ~Jess
 
Thanks everyone, your kind words really have helped
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It's a bit easier this morning, for both of us, and I guess every day will be like this. It is such an unbearably hard thing to go through and I will admit for a moment there I reconsidered this whole breeding. But then I just look at Lyric.

I certainly think it is somthing I had to acknowledge sooner or later. In breeding there is going to be the utter joy of the wishlist foal and the complete devestation of holding a stillborn baby. I've had both in the space of a week. Since I'll continue to breed I have to accept that it will happen again.

I think I get so connected to my guys that as Ashanti recovers so do I. Seeing her come to accept it really does make it easier on me although I've certainly spent a lot of time with her lately as she really seeks me out.
 
thats really good though Bree it will help the both of you!!

Ashanti needs you n you need her,

so glad you are able to be there for you!!
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you will have a better bond with her out of this
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poor gorgeous girl!!

we lvoe you Ashanti!
 
Thanks everyone, your kind words really have helped
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It's a bit easier this morning, for both of us, and I guess every day will be like this. It is such an unbearably hard thing to go through and I will admit for a moment there I reconsidered this whole breeding. But then I just look at Lyric.

I certainly think it is somthing I had to acknowledge sooner or later. In breeding there is going to be the utter joy of the wishlist foal and the complete devestation of holding a stillborn baby. I've had both in the space of a week. Since I'll continue to breed I have to accept that it will happen again.

I think I get so connected to my guys that as Ashanti recovers so do I. Seeing her come to accept it really does make it easier on me although I've certainly spent a lot of time with her lately as she really seeks me out.
you both have such a bond, that you will heal each other, and get through it together
 
Ashanti's doing much better today. She's stopped 'looking' and her udder is slowly begining to relax. I've watched to make sure that Lyric isn't helping with that! Ashanti seems quite fond of Lyric, not possesive but she gets little snuffles from her that Twinkles doesn't get. I think Lyric has helped both of us!

Speaking of Lyric she has started sampling the mares food. Very cute to watch her gum up a few mouthfuls and turn her muzzle green! She comes up to me and snuffles my hand, if she is distracted I can give her a little scratch before she steps back again.

I have a little break before Twinkles is due, day 336 is 24th of October but given how these girls have been going much closer to day 320 I don't think she'll wait that long. I hope not as I'm gone for a weekend in October and would have to get someone else to man the alarm
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I can't wait to shift all my girls onto foaling dates in August/September! This little foal will be Pallidon's second, and last, for the season and has a 75% chance of being dilute and of that a 30% chance of being a buckskin.

Also I finally have my website up! Still some work to go but here it is: www.marlanoc.com
 
First I am so sorry for your loss. I am glad to hear as the days pass your pain & Ashanti's pain eases. I love your website, very easy to navigate.
 
I'm lucky to have a cousin who is studying website design, so I get the use of a "pro in training" for the cost of a box of choc mints
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plus she gets to use my site as her guinea pig!

If you see anything wrong feel free to tell me because we look at it so often we sort of stop seeing the mistakes
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Lyric really loves the trees in her paddock. the mares spend a lot of time under them so they've worn the grass away and she gets to have a dirth bath everytime she snoozes. Plus the trees on the other side of the fence bring the other mares up to the fence line so she gets to talk to them. It must be a very hard life being a foal
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Nothing in life is more wonderful then Lyric
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:wub Sorry to all the other foals, but it is true! To me anyway
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Every morning I go out with the breakfast, like my horses I love routine so without fail the morning goes like this.

I wake up and put hot water in the mush bucket.

While waiting for it to soak I check emails and feed the cats.

I go outside and I call out "Morning boys!" Pallidon always calls back after three seconds. Always. This brings the mares to the gate and Tinker does the same in his paddock. he still hopes he can have breakfast.

I retrieve last nights feed buckets from Pallidon and Derby, this never happens without comments from them. Derby's is usually about how he has once again contorted his rug impossibly and he has finished his salt snack. Pallidon always complains about his hood after he rubs his face on me and twists it.

Then I mix the feed, get the showies done first and then the mares.

The mares have three tyre feeders int heir paddock. Without fail they escort me to the first which gets a large serve of food. This is because all three of them insist on eatin at that one first.

I top up the second and then go to the third. The third tyre is my favourite because it is at that point that Rivain abandons the first tyre and joins me at the third with Lyric.

This is the part where I sit down across from Rivain (who has stopped trying to remove my head!) and enjoy some Lyric Time.

Feeding time is the best time for Lyric Time. This is because Rivain doesn't like to feed Lyric when she is eating. So Lyric taste tests her mums food and then comes up to me. We are now at the point where I can scratch her rump if her back is to me and she snuffles my hands. She loves it when I scratch her mum and helps me
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I swear nothing has made the past few days easier then Lyric, she never fails to make me smile!
 
What a wonderful description of your morning routine.
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Sharing scratches with a foal and/ or just sitting nearby and watching them is really the perfect way to 'free' us from the worries and problems we suffer in our general lives.

I'm so glad little Lyric is helping you at this time, bless her.
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I totally agree with Anna
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so glad she is really responding to you now
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I always reckon that our animals know when we are hurting... if I'm upset Smartie follows me round like a shadow and lets me hug him and stands with his head to my shoulder!!

I love it when they are such characters!
 
Aww thats so sweet...its a very special time when theyr little it passes so quickly and before you know it theyr all grown up..so glad your enjoying your special girl and love the story of your morning routine
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we all have them just some are so much more fun than others
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made me think of all the poor people stuck in taffic ques on theyr way to work same time everyday proberbly seeing the same poeple in their cars
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Thanks everyone!

Also glad you are enjoying my rambling, I do go on a bit
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We had a tree down in the paddock with the other mares, no one hurt but I have found the minis love it when a tree comes down. As soon as the wind went away Beauty and Dreamy moved in. They spent the rest of the day rubbing out winter hair on the branches and roots.

We actually leave our dead trees in the paddock given how much the minis enjoy them. Better they scratch on that then the gates again!
 
did you get a storm Bree??

we got rain n some wind last night... but not enough to knock any trees down...
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maybe its still coming up here... it is freezing here today though...
 
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