Thank you Kim! Wait until you have your baby and you'll be so excited. Nothing more wonderful than these foals.
Nothing is going on with Paradigm so I thought I'd introduce you to another mare on my foaling line up. I was going to wait until she is 300 days on 2/26 but she's looking huge so here she is - H A Little Princes Emerald Rose. Dam to many World champions, I've owned this small, doe eyed mare for a few years but this is the first foal she is having for me. I bred her to my Buckeroo son Little King's A Billion Bucks so I'm thinking the foal will be bay
Bay it is then. (Don't mind me. I love playing with the different emoticons.) And yes, I had to count again because she is HUGE so I'm thinking a bay elephant horse.
She is big. I think it's because she's small and she's older and has had many, many foals at other farms. I have my vet coming this week to check her though to make sure she's not having twins or to see if anything else is going on I need to be concerned about. Sometimes the small mares can look huge when they are near to term.
Sometimes these older brood mares just look like they've filled up with foal, and look like they will foal anytime. But then they just wait it out. I've posted pictures I know you've seen of some of my bigger brood mares who looked like they would explode, and then carried 6-8 weeks more before presenting their perfect little ones.
Thank you. She's such a sweet mare. Last time she foaled, she had a giant colt for her owner (different sire) but hoping she has a tiny baby in there and if Diane is right and there is a lot of fluid, I shall prepare for a flood. She's still about 30 days out from foaling.
Thanks everyone for visiting my foaling thread and have a wonderful day. I'm just waiting on Paradigm to start the process.
Well, it was 70 degrees on Saturday and now we have snow. Paradigm is stalled for the bad weather but I took her out today to do photos. She's 324 days along. Baby has dropped but has been dropped for a while but all I see otherwise are very slight, small changes.
From these pictures I think you have a bit of time yet. Baby needs to move a bit more forward of center, and she needs to do a bit more on the elongation area, so no panicking yet. She's doing fine.