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> Carol, I am also waiting for foals with no experience and was given a 8 week guess on when they "might" foal. Do you know the geldings' history? I contacted the previous owner of my only boy and she told me he has shown aggression over the fence at the foals. So she always kept him apart for young horses. So sad to say Tuff is going to spend spring down the road, at our other farm, once the foals are born. So I currently am locking them up at night and keeping a close eye on what they are doing during the day. Better to be safe than sorry. Good luck!
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> From: hancapet@...
> To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, Jan 28, 2010 12:05 pm
> Subject: [haflingerfriends] foaling questions....
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> First...remember me....the lady who had three geldings and not interested
> in breeding/foaling/babies???? Well, guess what....times have changed! LOL
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> Daughter bought a mare from a neighbor. Mare had spent a year in a corral
> with a stallion. Previous owners swore mare could not become pregnant.
> We got mare end of September. No belly at that time. But about a month
> later, she began to have a belly. At first we thought it was because I feed
> well. Nope, belly is growing! and growing!
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> Anyway for questions. Have no idea when mare was bred. What do I look
> for? Do Haflinger mares blow coat before delivery? Mare is blowing coat but
> geldings are not. No increase in utter area....check almost daily. No
> softening of back area. But I have read that with a maiden mare there may be
> no warning at all. Just a baby come morning when we go out to feed!
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> She and three geldings have free run of three 10 x 20 run in stalls and the
> 200 x 100 arena during nite hours. Don't want to start locking her in a
> stall (we have one ready for her...put up plywood walls tied to pipe corral)
> as we don't want her to begin peeing and pooping in her baby area. She
> might not have baby until summer! Just how fat will she get before delivery
> and what things do I need to watch for?
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> If she delivery at nite out in arena area, will boys hurt her or baby?
> No way to separate them unless we close her in stall. We are really not
> set up for babies but trying to make it work.
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> H E L P
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> Carol in Snowflake AZ
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