CONGRATS!!!
i knew it! she just had to be bred!!! Hope everything goes smooth!
I am so excited! Thanks, bought the littlest little red foal halter yesterday, and ordered a blanket for the foaling kit I'll be putting together! Are you ready for nursing school? If you have questions, let me know. You are going to love being a labor and delivery nurse!
Make sure you have scissors and iodine! We actually are ordering our foal blankets next week. we are gonna get blue,pink and red! we have 2 mares that we bought about 2 months ago,they werent suppose to be bred and low and behold they have baby bellies! with the movement and how big they are they will prolly foal when its cold...yeah! lol, but we really have NO idea! oh and dont ya just love collecting the pee for the wee foal test?! and YES i am SOOOOOO READY for school!!!!! i will totally keep you in mind if/when i get some ?'s cause i know i will have them!!!
THANKS!
Feel free to ask any questions! I collected the urine after a big pee on the ground, (there was quite a puddle)and then let the dirt settle to the bottom, there was no other way! LOL Did you see the cup thing that hooks onto the blanket to collect the urine on the site? LOL My mare would blow that cup right out of there! The Wee Foal kit said " a little dirt won't hurt" It was supposed to take 5 mins, only took a minute for one line...Maybe you can get extra credit for foaling out your mares...!
yes i saw it and kinda thought it was stupid cause they pee alot!! We ran behind them with a big empty ice cream bucket!!! LOL!!! we put the in the stall so no one could see us playin with horse pee!
lol.... we have actually had a few horses foal before,i think 12 horse foals,with a total of 2 that died....the one died at 2 months of age cause she had a heart mumor(and its so sad cause your thinkin,well this is what i have planned to do with her,and the next minuted shes laying down in the dead of winter freezin to death,so we had to literally flip her over on a tarp and pull her up our feild into the barn where the vet could look her over,we had to put her down the next morning cause she wasnt able to get up and her organs were starting to shut down,our other foal died at 36hrs from pneumonia(sp?)....
But this yr/and nxt will be our first mini foals! im so excited!! oh and i have a ?...ok do you have to be like an RN before you can be a labor and delivery nurse? (i mean like do you have to be just a reg. nurse before you jump right into labor and delivery or could you go right from school and be one...?)