Bella's foaling thread....

[Kansas Spice Girl]

She is looking great! I know what you mean about the shedding out part lol, it looks like I mass murdered a whole bunch of cats in the pasture hahaha there is so much hair from Spice laying everywhere ;)
Oh, and don't take this the wrong way,as it is truly meant as a compliment,but both Zeuss, and Bella are really pretty for being MFT's. Lol I'm so used to stock horses sometimes gaited breeds look so oddly proportioned to me, but I truly like the looks of your girl. She has such a kind eye, and a really cute face!

[BellaMFT]

I agree that sometime gaited horses can look odd. I have seen some pretty horrid conformation on gaited breed. A few weeks ago there was a MFT for sell here in Utah and it looked like you put three different horses together. I tend like stockier build horses. So it took a while to find a MFT I like. When we decided to breed her Zeus was who we had originally planned on. This is a picture of the stallion we originally had planned on:

Ghost Dancer was well built. I loved his legs because they weren't like "twig". But the month before we had planned on breeding he coliced and had to be put down. Dennis offered to let us breed to Zeus. So we went out to take a look at him. What made up our minds was we went out on a trail ride with him and he was just amazing.

I was crazy just trying to plan the breeding. Between losing the first stallion. Then we had to postpone it a month because of the EHV outbreak here. But in the end I think every thing has worked out.

[BellaMFT]

I came across a video of Bella's sire today. He has such an awesome gait.

Lucky Goes to the Park - YouTube

[SunnyDraco]

Love the authentic saddle creaking in a video being taken from the back of a horse in motion

Well done too, I don't think I ever saw parts of their horse, but that could also be because I was focused on the lovely MFT LOL

[BellaMFT]

Bella is 320 days today. Not much progress. She has bagged up a little but still has a long ways to go. I think Bella is going to have a little spunky monster. She is always kicked up at her belly and biting at it tell him to knock it off. I am hoping to get some good pictures soon.

[BellaMFT]

Here are a couple of quick updated pictures of Bella today.
This is a picture of her bag today. Still has a long ways to go.

Sorry for the big picture photobucket would not let me re-size it.


She is finally almost all shed out. She is really pretty during the summer.

[BellaMFT]

I took a couple of quick pictures of Bella tonight.

Her bag is really coming a long.

Her is a picture of Bella's girl parts. I told myself I wasn't going to post any pictures but since I am not sure what I am look for as far as her relaxing I thought I would post it and see what you think.


I think she has at least another week. How much long do you think?

[Ambomoonu]

It has to be soon! Any updates??

[BellaMFT]

Bella is 330 days today. Here is a picture of her bag yesterday. It's filling up nicely. I think she'll go maybe another week.

I still amazed that her belly is not that big, at least compared to other mares I have seen.

[ilovepie32]

Subbing to this! Very excited for you, and I cannot wait to see your new foal :)