What a beauty she is. I love all horse faces and their eyes are so beautiful. Always wonder what they are thinking.
She's really
big with "child". :floorlaugh:
When is she due? And who is the daddy?
How long is the gestation period- not 9 months is it?
Hope she is doing well. What is her real name? (hope it's not really Her Royal Fatness- after all, she has her pride. :floorlaugh::floorlaugh: )
Gestation runs from 11-12 months. All my girls (arabs) went 1 year almost to the day, except a Percheron we had that went 11 months.
Mom's registered name is "Passin Kisses", pop's is "Zubaz Mastr Blastr", we just call them "Kissy and Zubaz.
Needless to say, Kissy's now going the full 12 months, so due date is September 9th now. It's been a guessing game because this is her first foal, and all the signs that indicate she's within 4-6 weeks or even 48 hours from foaling don't have a documented pattern yet. My other gals were pretty set in their ways, and I could tell they were 48 hours away from delivery just by their general appearance. Flanks fall in, foal turns over and the "bulk" is shifted further back, muscle around the tail turns to "jello", and their teets "wax up". They've always foaled on or around a full moon, between 9:00pm and 4:00 am, except for two times. In the afternoon with one up here........it was really cool, the other mares and Zubaz were right there, surrounding "Lady", she went down, pushed, foaled, and promptly got up and kicked Zubaz (I think it was one of these "You did this to me!" moments), and another when I was 10 years old, 6:00pm, a text book breach, tail first, no vets available, and the foal was dead after it was finally manipulated around and out.
Anxious and kinda scared. The last foal up here 4 or 5 years back was also text book breach, the Percheron. And it always seems that when something goes wrong, I can't find a vet on call. She was far too big for me to manipulate the foal on my own, and the BF isn't horse savvy in the least. When we finally got a vet...8 hours later, it took 4 of us, me, the BF, the vet and his tech, to remove the foal.
But, the odds are in my favor. A life time around horses may present you with 1 breach birth, 2 is almost unheard of, so I have to believe the statistics are in my favor, fingers crossed!