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Here comes a post I thought I wouldn't have to write for many more years to come. My dearest, darling Appy died yesterday evening. No apparent cause. He was 22 years old and has been one of my very special heart horses since even before his arrival in 2004. Woodstock North's Who's Appy Now...

Thanks! Well, here we are at 371 and nothing big has changed... her bag is about the same size, however the nipples are now pointing down instead of towards each other.... I am so tired I just want to hang her from the barn beams and bat her like a pinata until the baby falls out! A friend...

Can you get a vet to check her again? That way you'll be sure it isn't a false pregnancy. My gal Abbie was looking pregnant but not ready at 343 days from last breeding and so I had the vet check her then... there was a live foal, so I put her in a camera stall and put a foaling pager on her...

here's a friend holding Abbie on the day she was born (at 292 days along!) She was my earliest live foal and was born out in the turnout with a group of mares, I found her at breakfast... obviously I wasn't expecting a foal at 292 days and her dam hadn't even had a bag! We lucked out and all...

This was Abbie with a friend of mine on the day she was born (at 292 days along!) Today is 371 - a friend says she's going to have it between 2 and 4 am during the lunar eclipse tonight. I have my fingers crossed!

Forgot to add to FAQ - no chance of fescue either - we are in Southern California, there is no pasture, only dry lots, we feed alfalfa pellets. ​She's munching on a 3-way "forage hay" - oat/wheat/barley. We also use it to "top dress" the wood-pellet bedding in the stalls once the foals are...

Pictures of Karen Malcor-Chapman's horses

All our other mares this year have gone before 342... (Well, I don't know about Prissy, she was pasture bred, but she delivered right in the mid-range of the dates I had listed for her...)

Abbie is at 370 today....

Abbie is at 370 days today! FAQs: I have been breeding horses for over 35 years, and have been a professional "mini mare midwife" for the past 15 years, foaling as many as 30 mares per year. (this ain't my first rodeo! ) Yes, breeding date is certain, she was brought home from stallion...