Morning all.
Just checked on our girls and Suzie is obviously outside having her baby in the corner of the big paddock, out of sight of the cam, and Peanut is just getting enormous and contemplating whether she can hang on for the 4th July!
Fireworks - ugh, I hate fireworks! Well not all fireworks, but why cant they stick to one or two big organised displays and ban all those little back yard family ones. After a really disasterous 'next door' firework party several years ago, we luckily moved from England to Wales and now live miles away from the dreaded noise/sight that local fireworks create. Hope Peanut wont have to 'suffer' too much over the next few days, poor girl.
Glad the wedding went off ok Heidi, but it is worrying when you have to leave home for any reason when waiting for a mare to foal isn't it? I know daughter even worries about returning to the house to get a meal prepared, let alone to eat it. She doesn't have cameras this year - borrowed some for last year - so she is outside in the barn most of the day, where she can also view the field, and she sits up at nights in our lorry, now parked in the huge barn with its side windows directly facing the expectant Momma's stable. She dozes with her head on the window ledge so she is so uncomfortable she wakes every 10 minutes of so! When indoors for any reason during the day she runs upstairs every 10 minutes to look across at the field from one bedroom window. And all this for a mare not due until the beginning of August (covering dates 5-8 September), but after what has happened here so far this year, this mare is now looking as if she could foal any minute or go another two weeks!
But you simply cant take the chance can you?
Hopefully we shall see a Peanut baby very soon, and that Suzie follows suit and has hers tonight.
Bless them both!
Anna