Late Foals

[Michele Noonan]

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We are also in the same position as Solvi and Catherine.  Our mare was bred
last year and confirmed with an ultrasound on August 24th. She was at that
time 43 days bred.  Well her June 07 foaling date came and went. The vet
palpated her and said, Yes she still is bred, probably going to go a month
over due. Well that date came and went and we had her palpated again end of
August. Now the vet feels it will be an October baby.  We never turn mares out
with the stallion for the winter unless they are confirmed bred.  I guess
Elsker knew his balls were on the line and wanted one more before we cut him.

The vet figures she reabsorbed sometime in September or early October and then
came back into heat.
So we have no clue except we know what date Elsker was cut!  LOL

Two Rivers Kare is looking quite like an elephant though. So my guess is in
October.
Good thing those babies are born with a good coat on them. This one will get
to nurse all winter long for sure.

Michele Noonan
Wild Hair Ranch
  Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:45:17 -0700 (PDT)
  From: "Olivia Farm, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  Subject: New Foal

  We are in the same boat as Catherine Lassesen - at some point the mare
reabsorbed and was covered by the stallion.  Ahh, the fun of pasture
breeding!

Solveig Watanbe
Olivia Farm
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Bragg alert ~ late foals

[Julie Will]

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Fløtren arrived at our farm in early October of 1999, having been in
quarantine at Cornell for 5 weeks.  We had two outside mares waiting for his
arrival, MVF Viola, belonging to the Lapp Family, and Phelisia, a brown dun
imported daughter of Briggen (a grey), belonging to the Lunde's.  Both mares
foaled early in September; a filly for the Lapps and a colt for the Lunde's.
These are Fløtren's first American born offspring!   The filly, Valena, (a
brown dun) is so lovely, with tiny ears and muzzle, good bone and correct
legs, and a beautiful high head carriage.  The colt, much to all our
surprise, is a grey, also beautifully put together.  We had not expected
Fløtren to produce greys!  His Norwegian offspring have all been brown or
red duns, as far as we have been able to determine.  We are extremely
pleased with the quality of these foals, and the grey color is the ice cream
on the cake! Congratulations to their proud owners!

Julie ~ Old Hickory Farm, Weedsport, NY

Re: Any other late foals this year?

[Jon A. Ofjord]

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At 08:43 PM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> This is for Brian Jacobsen from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm, Nova
Scotia.
>
>>   This year, however, the two that have
>> foaled so far, were four days late, and ten days late. 
>
>I was just wondering if anyone else's mares are foaling late this year? 
>
>Cindy is one week late now, but thankfully starting to show signs. Our
>blacksmith was out a while back and said that two of her horses foaled
>30 days late (!) also Bernadine Karns mentioned to me that a mare that
>had been bred to their stallion just foaled 30 days late and the vets
>there said that was normal this year. Anyone else been seeing this? The
>blacksmith blamed El Nino :-)
>
>Lori
>
>
Hi Lori:  Saw your message from 5/12 on late mares.  Yes, ours was about a
week late.  We have another one due at the end of the month.  Last time she
foaled she was about 6 days early.

Re: Any other late foals this year?

[the Sessoms']

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Lori wrote:

> Bernadine Karns mentioned to me that a mare that
> had been bred to their stallion just foaled 30 days late and the vets
> there said that was normal this year. Anyone else been seeing this?
The
> blacksmith blamed El Nino :-)

My vet told me that a big majority of mares in the country will either
be on time, early or late each year.  Strange beasties!

Meredith Sessoms
Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee USA
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Any other late foals this year?

[Lori Albrough]

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> This is for Brian Jacobsen from Carol Rivoire at Beaver Dam Farm, Nova Scotia.

>   This year, however, the two that have
> foaled so far, were four days late, and ten days late. 

I was just wondering if anyone else's mares are foaling late this year? 

Cindy is one week late now, but thankfully starting to show signs. Our
blacksmith was out a while back and said that two of her horses foaled
30 days late (!) also Bernadine Karns mentioned to me that a mare that
had been bred to their stallion just foaled 30 days late and the vets
there said that was normal this year. Anyone else been seeing this? The
blacksmith blamed El Nino :-)

Lori