This is Cassie "Hoboy Hand". When I bought her she was already in foal to "Im your guy" (palomino). Cassie is a triple registered foundation bred broodmare, and "Guy" (whom I do not own) is an exceptional ranch and calf roping horse, and a son of Frenchmans Fabulous. This is Cassies 5th foal, and her previous 4 were all fillys. Her first, second and third foals were all out of a foundation bred grulla stud. First baby was black and second and third were grulla. Cassies sire and full sister were also grulla, so she carries the gene for it... not too familiar with the gene AA, EE, Aa, Ee, etc... only read on it just a little here recently. In 2011 she was bred with "Guy" for the first time and she had a little sorrel filly in 2012. She was left out in the pasture with him (Guy) after foaling, (I did not own her then, and she will not be in the pasture with a stud when she foals this year) so, she may have been bred back on her 9 day heat... if this were the case then Cassie is due to foal between March 26th and April 7th. I have no way of knowing her exact foal date, but I am expecting a baby sooner rather than later. She is already bagging up and starting to relax in her tailhead. I will post pictures of her tomorrow morning when I can take a few in the daylight, but for now I will post a few from 3 or 4 months ago so you can have a visual of Cassie and her "baby daddy". Im crossing my fingers for a palomino stud colt this year, but we will enjoy whatever she has.
Me either! I will get some better shots this afternoon of her rear... the very tips of her teats have a little bit of a wet film, but it may be nothing. I will try to get a good shot of that too. Im going to go stark raving mad from lack of sleep if she doesn't drop this baby soon!
I am an hour north of Dallas, about 10 minutes from the Oklahoma border. And Thank you! We have really been struggling with this drought for the last 3 years. Everything looks green right now, but in a few months it will be ALL sand... unless of course we get a miracle and get LOTS and LOTS of rain!
Cassie is abnormally quiet and still tonight. She shares her pasture with one other mare and she is staying off by herself and not munching on her hay at all... She doesn't seem uncomfortable, just quiet and reclusive... She's usually feeding her face 24/7 though. She's been standing alone for a good 2 hours. Maybe since she's an old pro she knows its coming and isn't making a fuss about it... Or maybe I'm wishful thinking again 😉 Posted via Mobile Device
She's laying down... She keeps laying flat and then sitting back up and rocking and laying back down again and grunting.... Maybe this is it. Posted via Mobile Device
Well, she was tricking me again. It's supposed to start storming here tonight and there's a chance for hail, high winds and tornados... Into tomorrow morning, followed by a cold front that's gonna make it 38 degrees tomorrow night!!! Now I'm hoping she waits until Thursday night when it starts to warm back up!! Posted via Mobile Device
Well, the inside of her lady parts are bright red and she has little white plugs on her nipples... Great. The one day I want her to wait she's gonna try to foal
Ok. I'm gonna upload pics from today... But I'm 99% sure she's gonna foal tonight. Her anus keeps sinking way in and then she will start swatting her tail and kicking her belly and it polks way out... Pics coming Posted via Mobile Device
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