Webcam mare - 352 days & waiting!

[Magic]

Is Prissy always so active? She's been pacing circles in her stall, and since the door to the outside was opened she's been in and out constantly. She's holding her tail up a lot too.

I'm going to totally get caught up in this webcam, lol!

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

Yes, Prissy is fairly active... she's also got a (great!) high tail carriage that, combined with the braiding I do, makes her tail look like it's up all the time!

 

[Eagle]

Congratulations. Filly or colt?????

Blue towel, could be a colt????

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

Congratulations. Filly or colt?????

Blue towel, could be a colt????

Loud appy mare + black pinto stallion = solid black colt without 1 white hair showing! Time of birth= 1:10am, PDT

Easy textbook birth, good strong colt! Already got a suck or 2 - got up on his own, navel & enema done, placenta whole and out - I'm going bac to bed to watch them on the camera!

 

[Genie]

Congratulations. Looking forward to close up picture.

 

[HGFarm]

Oh congrats and go figure! Isn't that always the way?!! Can't wait to see pics- I missed it.

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

Oh congrats and go figure! Isn't that always the way?!! Can't wait to see pics- I missed it.

Well - they aren't mine, so I'm just happy he's healthy and strong! He's colored a bit like a black & tan dog!

 

[Ashley]

very pretty, he however is a bay not black.

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

very pretty, he however is a bay not black.

Pretty sure he's a black varnish roan - dam is black varnish roan and sire is black pinto - so there's nowhere he could have gotten an agouti gene from. The Lp complex often causes weird shifts to base coats. It'll probably be awhile before he gets any visible color, though.

He's been named POTUS. He'll be leaving for home in a few days and we have other client's horses coming in this weekend.

 

[ohmt]

Congrats on the healthy new foal!! Both mom and foal look bay to me, but i'm using my phone so the color could be off. Maybe he'll get some spots later

 

[Ashley]

Congrats on the healthy new foal!! Both mom and foal look bay to me, but i'm using my phone so the color could be off. Maybe he'll get some spots later

I agree, I see mom as a bay appy as well.

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

The mare is a black varnish/blanket. If you don't understand how the Lp genes can skew a color, here's a good article about it - there's more at the Appaloosa project.

http://www.horsecolor.info/Hoist4.pdf

I've known this mare for years as well as having bred a daughter and granddaughter of hers, and I've foaled out her last 4 or 5 foals. She's black. The sire is black. So the foal can't be bay, because neither parent has an agouti gene.

Horse color genetics are one of the areas I've studied the most extensively for the past 35 years! One can't always judge a book by it's cover (especially appaloosas!)

Here's a homozygous black, homozygous silver, heterozygous agouti, no cream. I have the worst time trying to get people not to call him Palomino or sorrel!

 

[BethelJeannie]

Hi Karen, Know that you have been busy,but was wondering; if you could give the details of Sparkles baby???Champagne or nott??Watched till 3 a.m., still missed the birth.. Mini thanks and hoping for more healthy foals!! Jeannie

 

[Eagle]

Congratulations, when did baby arrive?

 

[Sixstardanes]

Congratulations, when did baby arrive?

I watched Cider born... he arrived at 7:33am

 

[Dontworrybeappy]

Spaarkle had a bay 15/16ths Arabian colt we named "Spaarklin Cider" (cause he's NOT champagne!)

Very sweet lil' boy, a little down in the pasterns, so he's staying in the stall (and outta the mud) for a couple more days.

He's the first "double Khornerstone" foal I've bred (with Khornerstone being his sire and his great-grandsire) and he came out beautifully! ('cept I ordered a champagne filly) We'll try it again!

He's also the first foal from 4 solid generations of my breeding!

He'll be a wonderful gelding soon!

 

[HGFarm]

Congrats on your other big foal too.. maybe you should have asked for a bay colt and then you would have gotten your champagne filly, LOL The old reverse psychology you know?