nootka
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My ten year old mare, Cherry Bomb (born about the same time I discovered this Forum), is due Feb. 14, but the last few days, she's really been progressing on her udder development.
Last year she was due Jan. 31, and foaled a beautiful silver buckskin colt on the same night our nephew's boat sank off the Tillamook Bar, Feb. 7.
She's been HUGE since she was five months in, and in July and August, I was thinking either twins or a Hanoverian, but she really hasn't grown MUCH since then.
She was at our beach drive in Sept., and getting a few funny remarks, but she's always a trooper.
I bought a bale of straw today!
I'm halfway hoping she holds out a few weeks to give the pasture time to grow in some. Doesn't seem right for a baby to be running around in all that muck.
Mouse (in avatar) is gonna have a little sister (I hope!) or brother (4/5 of her babies have been colts) soon, and Gramma is playing the nervous Grandmother, following Cherry everywhere, waiting for another grandkid to show up. I wish I could convey the concern that Gramma has for her daughter. She nickers for her grumpily if she gets out of her sight and grudgingly follows her to the farthest reaches of the pasture, where CB likes to hang out when she's at the end of her gestations. Poor Gramma, she's getting her exercise, that's for sure, for playing "midwife."
I'll keep ya posted! Dad is the Crabby Chicken Ranch's fabulous Pharaoh son, who was the sire of my filly, Lark. This is CB and Falcon's first tryst, and so we'll see what comes of it. I'm SURE it'll be red (dad and mom are both), but I'm hoping for dark red w/a face marking....a filly!!!
I can barely believe this has arrived. Next thing I know, show season will really be here.
Good luck to all others out there on foal watch/mare stare.
Liz M.
Last year she was due Jan. 31, and foaled a beautiful silver buckskin colt on the same night our nephew's boat sank off the Tillamook Bar, Feb. 7.
She's been HUGE since she was five months in, and in July and August, I was thinking either twins or a Hanoverian, but she really hasn't grown MUCH since then.
She was at our beach drive in Sept., and getting a few funny remarks, but she's always a trooper.
I bought a bale of straw today!
I'm halfway hoping she holds out a few weeks to give the pasture time to grow in some. Doesn't seem right for a baby to be running around in all that muck.
Mouse (in avatar) is gonna have a little sister (I hope!) or brother (4/5 of her babies have been colts) soon, and Gramma is playing the nervous Grandmother, following Cherry everywhere, waiting for another grandkid to show up. I wish I could convey the concern that Gramma has for her daughter. She nickers for her grumpily if she gets out of her sight and grudgingly follows her to the farthest reaches of the pasture, where CB likes to hang out when she's at the end of her gestations. Poor Gramma, she's getting her exercise, that's for sure, for playing "midwife."
I'll keep ya posted! Dad is the Crabby Chicken Ranch's fabulous Pharaoh son, who was the sire of my filly, Lark. This is CB and Falcon's first tryst, and so we'll see what comes of it. I'm SURE it'll be red (dad and mom are both), but I'm hoping for dark red w/a face marking....a filly!!!
I can barely believe this has arrived. Next thing I know, show season will really be here.
Good luck to all others out there on foal watch/mare stare.
Liz M.
