On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:06 PM, moyra_d <sk_4444@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com<haflingerfriends%40yahoogroups.com>,
> sylviasmiskoe@... wrote:
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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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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: hancapet@...
> > To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com<haflingerfriends%40yahoogroups.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
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> > in breeding/foaling/babies???? Well, guess what....times have changed!
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> > Daughter bought a mare from a neighbor. Mare had spent a year in a corral
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > 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
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> > 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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