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| crittergranny |
Posted - Mar 25 2012 : 09:29:28 AM
I have 2 mares that are going to foal soon. One is due on April 6th the other in May. they are so beautiful and round and grumpy right now. I will post some pics of them when I can get it figured out how to. So excited, cant wait!
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 2:18:54 PM
Aw thanks Winona. But here in NM we actually have too much selenium, but I was thinking it might have something to do with the fact that we used hay brought from Canada last winter. So if I buy local hay for the broodies I should be ok no the selenium. My daughters already have an idea on some sort of antibody paste we can give as a safeguard. Also a liter of plasma should help but I probably live too far from the vet for that to really be feasible.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| goneriding |
Posted - Jun 23 2012 : 12:06:13 PM
Sorry about the loss, but, you still have Sweethearts' foal.
About the pics, I use photobucket to upload to, then paste the link in whatever message. It works very well and is easy to do, thank goodness. The accounts are free, too. You can also edit and do things to the pics to make the pictures better.
Sel deficiency around here is pretty bad. The ground doesn't have any so people have to supp their broodies. A lot of people don't, so the foal is born with super crooked legs. One breeder give a sel shot right after birht and the legs straighten out. However, I'd rather supp than the shots.
Also, Jeffers used to sell horse colostrum in powder form. I don't know if they still do. I know you can get bolus's but seems like it'd be pretty hard to get that down a newborn foal's throat.
Again, so sorry about your little foal. Hugs to its' dam...and to you!!
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| horsefeed |
Posted - Jun 22 2012 : 09:53:41 AM
So sorry to hear about the loss. At least you still have one foal. |
| crittergranny |
Posted - May 29 2012 : 6:59:47 PM
We usually have a pretty good foal crop. We have never had this happen before, in fact this mare has done fine before. The vet said it might be because she is getting old. She is 21. Also I think I probably should have vaccinated more to build up more antibodies. But I will check into the selenium thing because many times we buy horses and after we have them for a couple of years their manes arent as long and pretty as before but they do well if not better otherwise. I always joke around about if we buy a horse it gets bald and fat. But my daughter has read that manes can grow shorter if the selenium is too low or too high. Of course I brush them a lot so that might have something to do with it. I have actually become sort of fond of sparse manes from having a lot of beautiful appaloosas. The Nez Peirce bred them like that so as not to leave any sign when they traveled. Kinda cool. But I may want to check into that to see if it is causing any health problems. I do know that selenium increases milk production in goats and this mare not only didn't make colostrum she also didn't make a lot of milk either. She is already pretty much dried up. I fed her very well while she was pregnant. Alfalfa hay, 4 way, senior high fat feed and beet pulp. So I really wasn't thinking too much about any deficiencies but I think I will now. Thank you Jen.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - May 29 2012 : 12:55:14 PM
So sorry Laura.
When I was a kid my mom tried to run an appaloosa horse farm, but lost most of her babies to selenium deficiency. Back then there was no "google" or homesteader forums to help identify such a problem.. It took her about 3 years of losses until a different vet finally told her about it.
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| crittergranny |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 1:52:01 PM
Both of the mares foaled. I posted the pics. One is titled sweethearts filly and the other one I was asking for no more posts on it cause the baby died and I dont know how to remove it effectively and it hurts to see it alot. But you can look at them if you want. Sweethearts baby is doing well but Bambi's baby died cause the mare didnt make colostrum. It was horrible.
Laura
Horse poor in the boonies.
www.nmbarrelhorses.com |
| horsefeed |
Posted - May 28 2012 : 08:42:55 AM
Here we are at the end of May. Do you have two foals by now? Can't wait to see the pictures. |
| sherrye |
Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 07:07:31 AM
it is so exciting to have babies. waiting for pics too
the learn as we go silk purse farm
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 06:45:19 AM
Oh cool, thank you Alee. My kids transfer all my pics to my flash drive so I just have to have them show me how to get them off of there.
Horse poor in the boonies.
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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 04:05:36 AM
Hi Laura!
To post pictures you should click on the icon that looks like grey mountains with a yellow sky in the background with a grey arrow pointing up on the left had side. That will open a pop up box that asks you to browse for the file. You select the file off the hard drive and in a minute or two it will have been uploaded to the Farm's servers and a string of text that looks like [img]file name [ img] will be inserted into your reply. That is the command code to the saved location of your image. So when you post the image will be pulled into your post. :)
Alee
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Mar 26 2012 : 4:23:47 PM
We had a mare that was due last year on April 6th and she had it on that date at about 2am. My daughter and I stayed up all night and watched her be born it was so incredible. I will try to get a picture of that one on too cause she is really beautiful. She's a palomino paint. She is a yearling now and about to go to a really good home probably on Friday. It's hard to sell them but when one knows it's a good home it's not so bad, and we breed them very selectively and raise them right so they are really nice horses. The last years foal is on our website. We just now bred one of our mares to one of our stallions. It is really awesome to watch. The stallion does a really beautiful courtship. He prances and shows off and it is so beautiful. Before we started breeding horses I assumed it was pretty much like other animals when they breed but it's different. They act like such gentlemen. At least ours do, there are probably some out there that savage the mares.
Horse poor in the boonies.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Mar 26 2012 : 11:03:28 AM
I can't wait to see those pictures. I'll keep checking in on the thread.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Mar 25 2012 : 3:22:03 PM
That is so exciting!
Marianne |
| horsefeed |
Posted - Mar 25 2012 : 12:22:46 PM
can't wait to see the pics. You know April sixth is passover??? |
