bannerminis
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I am watching my mare Slaney now for the last 3 wks. As of today she is 12 days over her due date which was May 12th at 330 days.
She was covered in hand for 3 days on June14th, 15th and 16th and I tested her about 22 days after that with the stallion and neither had any interest so I was happy that she took.
She was scanned (external) in Nov and vet could see Uterus and fluid but at that time couldnt see a foal. Scanned again (external) in Feb and the same again and thought we caught a flash of a limb while moving the probe around.
She has softened up behind and been that way for over 2 wks, belly has dropped, she is rolling and sitting on her butt pushing back and forth, scratching and in the stable lays down but then looks back at her belly, tail swishing belly kicking the lot. She had a small loose udder and then over the weekend it filled out more so I figured she might go in the next 24 - 48 hrs but this morning the udder looks to have shrunk back again.
I think I am going insane - even yesterday evening she was coming to the back door and then standing by her stable door so I knew she wanted to go in so thought she might up her game or go through the night.
She is eating away - totally normal for her. The first foal she had with me she ate her dinner around 8 pm and foaled at 9.20pm.
She has had 3 foals with me (this being no. 4) the first was 4 days early (colt), 2nd was 4 days over (colt) and last yr she was 8 days early (filly).
Today she would be at 342 days gestation and I was wondering how long do you leave it before calling the vet??
She was covered in hand for 3 days on June14th, 15th and 16th and I tested her about 22 days after that with the stallion and neither had any interest so I was happy that she took.
She was scanned (external) in Nov and vet could see Uterus and fluid but at that time couldnt see a foal. Scanned again (external) in Feb and the same again and thought we caught a flash of a limb while moving the probe around.
She has softened up behind and been that way for over 2 wks, belly has dropped, she is rolling and sitting on her butt pushing back and forth, scratching and in the stable lays down but then looks back at her belly, tail swishing belly kicking the lot. She had a small loose udder and then over the weekend it filled out more so I figured she might go in the next 24 - 48 hrs but this morning the udder looks to have shrunk back again.
I think I am going insane - even yesterday evening she was coming to the back door and then standing by her stable door so I knew she wanted to go in so thought she might up her game or go through the night.
She is eating away - totally normal for her. The first foal she had with me she ate her dinner around 8 pm and foaled at 9.20pm.
She has had 3 foals with me (this being no. 4) the first was 4 days early (colt), 2nd was 4 days over (colt) and last yr she was 8 days early (filly).
Today she would be at 342 days gestation and I was wondering how long do you leave it before calling the vet??