I'm just having a basic peek at her, nothing real invasive at this point. It's way too early. I just think it's funny that she's such an undercover broodmare. She really doesn't look pregnant until it's almost time to drop. And then, BOOM she's looking like an overloaded cargo ship, wallowing around, rolling from side to side as she walks and when she bags up she looks like she's expecting to feed a small country, not just a foal.
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I threw in the different days because she's now 20 years old, and her life took a hard turn to the left the last couple of years, so don't know what effeft that will have on her, or if it will have any, so just kind of curious to see how this year goes. And, of course, this is a late baby for her, I generally go for the early mid-Feb babies and this one will be in Tornado season. So, a few different things going on this year for her.Track record of when she foaled in the past is hard to ignore....
Weather conditions though can play a bit of havoc in that though too....
Weather change and front coming through, the stronger the more apt she is to deliver during storm peak as you know...
Mother Nature and Boo seem to already have this understanding....
Since shes foaled so consistent on day 340....it will be day 340 of the day she caught, not introduced.....
Baby alert.... we're now all waiting, some getting impatient.
🐴....
Welp, the base was doing artillery practice and Boo decided that having her foal during the 1812 Overture complete with Cannons was a great time to have her foal. She laid down at 8:30 this morning and gave us a lovely little filly!
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Naturally she rolled around and got her little blanket all dirty before I could get her picuture taken!
Naturally she rolled around and got her little blanket all dirty before I could get her picuture taken!
It was 336.
To answer all the questions in order:
Filly
Early, day 336
Before Midnight
And I spent NO nights on foal watch.
She really didn't look ready to foal when I checked her before bed the night before, she still looked like the big wide U not the long skinny V on her belly, teats were not really straight down, hardly any wax and she hadn't elongated as long on her vulva as she usually did and she hadn't turned bright red. So, I thought I had a couple more nights. What I didn't really take into consideration was, the 'yotes were out howling all night and the base was doing artillery practice very early in the morning, to the point where they were shaking the ground. It probably felt like really loud, close thunder. Maybe she thought there was a big storm coming and she better get it over with. Dunno, but she laid down about 8:30 a.m. and out popped that little girl! By 9 she was up and she was drinking by 10 and bouncing around by 11 and hasn't stopped since.
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