Tiz Minis Fan
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Hello to all fellow Mini horse lovers/owners/moms/dads!
I became a member some time ago but have been hiding low. No foal cam is available but i hope this is the correct chat board pertaining to 'foaling'. I am a member of another chatboard and post on occasion (NC Horse News - screen name is the same on both). Please let me know if this needs to be posted in another forum as I will gladly do so!
My background: first mini a gelding I brought down here using a wonderful horse transportation company in summer of 2009. He is my noble steed and has taught me many things with horses. Then by summer 2010, a mare who is his sidekick all day, every day. He needed a friend to help him pull wagons and carts so he 'owns' her.....so he thinks!
Then came 2 more ladies. An adult mare (who is bred) and a filly at 3.5 months of age when we picked her up. My gelding acts like this
all day long if he is ever away from even one of his gals for any reason.... (yes, he was castrated at the earliest possible time... he probably thinks I got the gals for 'him'.)
My mini mare, Tiz Chantilly (Tilly is barn name) is due to foal.....well....soon. She was placed in the pen with the stallion for the month of July and 4 days into August of 2011. Verified in foal in April 2012 via ultrasound. The vet said 'that's a lot of amneotic fluid! She has to be in foal with that much amneotic fluid!" but he could not see a foal in the ultrasound due to the amneotic fluid.
I have been reading up (on the internet and here too!!!) and consulting with my mentors where all 4 of the brood came from about foaling and the what to do's and not do's when/if I catch her in the act. My mentors are Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in New Hampshire and they have been in the business for more than 25 years specializing in Minis.
All pictures are from 25 June 2012 in the evening. She has been showing NO signs of 'any day now', no milk, no soft tail head.....some occasional 'biting at the belly' but that is sometimes attributed to flies/bugs. (which I resolve nightly with fly spray) Some rolling but not excessive to show concern. I am aware of the milk test with pool strips but have no milk to do such testing with!!!!....
This is her and my first 'foaling' experience.
Any thoughts as to why she is 'baking' this little one to perfection and taking her sweet time?
I became a member some time ago but have been hiding low. No foal cam is available but i hope this is the correct chat board pertaining to 'foaling'. I am a member of another chatboard and post on occasion (NC Horse News - screen name is the same on both). Please let me know if this needs to be posted in another forum as I will gladly do so!
My background: first mini a gelding I brought down here using a wonderful horse transportation company in summer of 2009. He is my noble steed and has taught me many things with horses. Then by summer 2010, a mare who is his sidekick all day, every day. He needed a friend to help him pull wagons and carts so he 'owns' her.....so he thinks!
My mini mare, Tiz Chantilly (Tilly is barn name) is due to foal.....well....soon. She was placed in the pen with the stallion for the month of July and 4 days into August of 2011. Verified in foal in April 2012 via ultrasound. The vet said 'that's a lot of amneotic fluid! She has to be in foal with that much amneotic fluid!" but he could not see a foal in the ultrasound due to the amneotic fluid.
I have been reading up (on the internet and here too!!!) and consulting with my mentors where all 4 of the brood came from about foaling and the what to do's and not do's when/if I catch her in the act. My mentors are Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in New Hampshire and they have been in the business for more than 25 years specializing in Minis.
All pictures are from 25 June 2012 in the evening. She has been showing NO signs of 'any day now', no milk, no soft tail head.....some occasional 'biting at the belly' but that is sometimes attributed to flies/bugs. (which I resolve nightly with fly spray) Some rolling but not excessive to show concern. I am aware of the milk test with pool strips but have no milk to do such testing with!!!!....
This is her and my first 'foaling' experience.
Any thoughts as to why she is 'baking' this little one to perfection and taking her sweet time?
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