So, I am a little nervous, excited, and well I am just unsure of how to handle myself. We bought a great mare today!! Perfect for my kids, she just happens to be bred. Looks to be about ready to pop. I checked when I got her home and she has no waxing and looks to be closed up so I don't think it will be in the near like week or so. Just wanted to kinda keep up with what is going on and maybe have some people to back me up and give me as much knowledge as I can take in. I have raised several foals so this aint the first but, still a nervous situation.
So.... this is what I know she is a 12 year old QH around 14.5 hh. The studs got in the pasture with her 2 times, the owner was unsure of which stud she is bred by. So, today starts the foal watching and waiting. Please join me for support!
My father in law checked her this morning, weather is better today still a little cold but not a mess. So he let her out for a bit. Nothing happened, of course. Me and my husband went out every two hours in turns so we got to sleep longer. Because he works thirds so tonight will be my last night with him til next weekend. Her stomach is not a v at all this morning. I'm gonna to let her graze a bit then go and groom her in the field if she will let me today. Posted via Mobile Device
Just went and checked on Sunshine, she isn't as moody as she was. Her bag has went down, but there is a little amount of wax. Her back end is not that relaxed to me anyway. Here is a few pictures.
From those boobie shots, she doesn't look close to me. It may just be the way she does things, but she looks like she has nothing. Although pictures can be receiving...
Nope, I don't think she is either that's pretty much how they look. They was so big the day before yesterday milk was leaking. She was almost text book foaling yesterday! Then today not a sign in sight. AHHHHH!! I am gonna end up going crazy!
Agreed. She looks nowhere near foaling. It's hard when you don't know the breeding date. Even though she is maiden, I would only be checking on her morning and night at this point. Posted via Mobile Device
So, I couldn't sleep go out to check on mommy (that's what I've been calling her) And she is laying down! Legs sprawled and looked straight as a board. So I rushed I And she hops up! I'm like thanks for the heart attack! Yep she's having fun with me now. I can hear her and the other mare now.... Is that her can you hear her, quick quick lay out like your in labor. Ha ha ha! Posted via Mobile Device
My mare was a maiden when we bred her (several years ago). The morning before she foaled, I checked her and there was no back, no waxing, no softness/squishiness around the tail-head, etc... Nothing. Nada.
I had been invited to go stay with my cousins for the night, so I thought, ok, she's still got a few days, sure, I'll go visit my cousins. so I went and stayed the night with them (in another town about a half-hours drive away). The next morning at around 6am my great grandmother calls and says "Your horse had its baby. Your uncle just called me and told me. She had it in the pasture beside his house a few minutes ago."
You can imagine that I FLEW back home with my cousins in tow and lo and behold, my mare had decided to have her foal in the worst place in the entire pasture, right in the middle of my uncle's ''junkyard' (my uncle parked his old/wrecked cars in the pasture beside his house back then). I had been planning on bringing her into the Lot behind our house for her to foal... instead, she foaled in a fifty acre pasture with several other horses and cows as an audience...
Dakota (the foal) was still wet when I got there and hadn't even stood up for the first time yet.
So, I checked her this morning and all was fine, I just went out to check then in the next hour or so I will stall her but, look at these pics.... is it normal for the build of the milk to move up like this? our mares only had it on tips of nipples before! I am scared!
So, I checked her this morning and all was fine, I just went out to check then in the next hour or so I will stall her but, look at these pics.... is it normal for the build of the milk to move up like this? our mares only had it on tips of nipples before! I am scared!
Here is what udders look like when they are getting full, this mare foaled 3 weeks later. The udders in the picture you post looks like udders from an unbred mare.
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I know she's not filling up much. I have never had a mare with droplets like that third picture I posted. Did your waxing completely cover nipple and move up the udder? Posted via Mobile Device
The waxy build up is covered her whole nipple and is beginning to build up more around her udder too. The second post of the picture I put on here, that white looks like it is spreading everywhere. I was afraid to clean it because I didn't want to unplug so she would leak more. But should I just clean her? Posted via Mobile Device
You may want to get the vet out, palp her, give her a physical exam. That would be the best course of action for peace of mind and expert advice. The palp exam to check to see if she is indeed in foal or having a false pregnancy and a physical exam to see if there is anything else that might be a problem :wink:
The vet saw her the 10th of Feb. Confirmed foal. The vet tech is supose to talk with him and let him know what's going on with her and he's gonna call me back so I know when to expect him. Posted via Mobile Device
I have both on hand. Thanks y'all for being great!! She is out in the stall and isn't feeling great. She just acts like she don't feel well and is having lots of bowel movements. She is also tensing up at times. So I'm thinking maybe we will have a baby before to long, maybe not tonight but I'd say within the next day or two. Posted via Mobile Device
Did the vet give you any idea how imminent she was to foal? Or possibly suggest using Domperidone to help her lactate? Or did he feel it's too late? I've had fair success with Domperidone prior to foaling for a mare who wasn't producing milk, her mother also didn't latate a lot so I was on guard for it. Domperidone isn't cheap but it's worth every dime, IF you have time for it.
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