anyone else impatiently waiting?

[stella3]

one due april 15th, the other not until june 7th

i have gone through my normal stages.

1) denial...."oh it's weeks away, no need to get frazzled"
2) anxiety...."what if something goes wrong, what do i do?"
and finally...
3) impatient...."now 4 weeks is seeming like an eternity, i just want the darn things to start popping out NOW!"

anyone else with me?

please add your own obsessive stages, i'm always looking for something new to fret about! HAHA

[horsetales]

My 1st isn't due until May 18, but we just went through a bad touch and go spell last week. I have no fingenails left, many new gray hairs and a worn path to the barn :no: Not to mention shes getting huge which worries me.

My second is not due until June 14 and she's a maiden, so lots of reasons to stress out over.

I may go crazy over the next 2-3 months to wait :yes:

[peskee]

Check my thread on 311 days and you will know what is up with me. The mare is due April 15. We are just praying for each day we can get. Good luck to all breeders, mares and foals for 2008.

[junebug84]

Mine is due april 19th. Up until about 2 weeks ago I felt like I had allllllthe time in the world. Then, it was pure panic. I didn't have the straw yet, or my foaling kit all together. Now that it's all done I feel like 4 weeks is an eternity!!

To add to my panic, my vet clinic announced that one of the vets was leaving. That means it's now a one vet clinic until JUNE! AHH!! I can't even remember when my vet clinic only had one vet :eek:

[Castlegate]

Well...my first and my mare's first are due on April 26th and I am actually still in the denial phase and just now getting into the anxiety phase...

Like now I still look at her and think she isnt really pregnant and then two seconds later I am worried about everything that could possibly go wrong....

I did finally set up my foaling stall last night and I did finally order my foal cam...

So maybe I am starting to accept this! Vet comes tomorrow for pre-foaling...tomorrow is Day 300!

[FLIPPED HER HALO]

I'm so anxious to have my foal! My mare is a maiden as well. :)

My kit is together, foal halters from Quillin's arrive this week, foaling camera I ordered arrived and just needs to be put up, I'll give her all her shots next week, caslick was removed this weekend etc.

Now the rush is to get the front pasture fenced for her and the wee one. I will pick up straw and shavings when it gets closer and I need to get back doors onto her stall to lock her in at night.

Whew....I think as time gets closer this will work wonders for my diet! :lol:

[railmom]

My first mare is due May 10th AND my second grandchild is due April 25th (out of state), mare usually goes early, daughter goes late! ha, ha! Mr. railmom has already threatened to divorce me if I leave him with a foaling mare :) Not sure who to be more worried about?

[clint]

My mare is at 340 days on April 12. Her milk started to come in last night, and yes, I confess, I just hit the impatient stage. Not as bad as it will be after the 320 day mark, though.:D

[DLee]

Oh yes, impatient! 335 days today! :eek: I guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Getting a tiny bit of 'milk' and have had the first square turn on the test strip. She is a maiden also, so who knows.... I just want it out, done and healthy. :cry: Wah!

[RioTex]

I have a 351 and a 339. Big storm expected tonight. Son's B-day is three days away, he would love a foal for his birthday. Full moon on 3/21. No signs right now that we are going this week. :no:

[twinlights]

Yup, waiting, not very patiently here as well. One mare, a maiden, due on April 20th.
I am not good at waiting. I know once the sleepless nights come I will be complaining about them. But right now April 20th seems so far away. :winkgrin:

[TouchstoneAcres]

331 today and hoping for a St. Paddy's Day foal. Anything healthy is fine by me. Dam usually goes 334-335 though so money's on Thursday. Is that the end of winter or start of spring?

[chrissymack]

I'm at day 327, and definitely impatient!! How bout a little Easter foal??? Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! :yes:

[DLee]

I'm at day 327, and definitely impatient!! How bout a little Easter foal??? Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!! :yes:


As long as it doesn't have long bunny ears! :winkgrin:

[foxhavenfarm]

Yes, and will be until...hmm, let's see...August!
We have had two already (both healthy colts!) have one more due this month, then one in late May/early June, then one in late June (maiden), then another maiden in August...I think my mom and I will likely die of exhaustion before then! :lol:

[Tasker]

I am no longer impatient! :no: :(

My maiden is due April 4th and she can hold off as long as she wants...I am totally fine with lack of sleep, frequent checks of the barn, etc. as my neighbor called yesterday evening and her first mare (due April 26th) was a bit colicky and she was looking for some Banamine (I didn't have any). Well, the mare aborted just before 11pm.

:sigh:

Nope, my girl can hold off as long as she feels like!!! :yes:

Jingles and good thoughts for all the pregnant mares & for easy deliveries with healthy babies.

[lelevic]

My mare isn't due until the middle of September. I remind my friends constantly that they aren't going to be able to stand me before long....They saying "Patience is a virtue"...well, I am not on that program! :winkgrin:

[genevieveg17]

I am waiting on my first of the season. She is at 343 days a maiden and miserable.
http://www.marestare.com/glenhillone.php

5 more to foal after her. The end of April/ beginning of May will be hectic.

[VirginiaBred]

I am waiting on my first of the season. She is at 343 days a maiden and miserable.
http://www.marestare.com/glenhillone.php

5 more to foal after her. The end of April/ beginning of May will be hectic.

Oh good! I was wondering when you'd be posting someone ready to foal! :)

[genevieveg17]

Hopefully she goes soon. She is dripping milk and her daily pattern has changed today.
She usually takes several long naps during the day but has not been down since around 5 this morning. She is so cranky, lots of rubbing her backside and kicking.

[DLee]

Genevieve,
She is on my screen right next to MY webcam, lol, I even check her in the middle of the night when I check mine... good luck!

[Cindy's Warmbloods]

My one and only foal this year is not due until mid May! Seems like SO far away! I can hardly wait!

[FLIPPED HER HALO]

Hopefully she goes soon. She is dripping milk and her daily pattern has changed today.
She usually takes several long naps during the day but has not been down since around 5 this morning. She is so cranky, lots of rubbing her backside and kicking.

I swear almost every time I've watched her over the past week she is sleeping, either on her sternum on flat out like right now. :yes: Hopefully all goes well and you can get some rest before the next one is due in a few weeks!

[stella3]

glad, i'm not the only one who goes through the stages:D

Vet is coming today to open caslicks and give me his yearly lecture/pep talk about the whole ordeal....poor guy, he probably charges me a hidden aggravation fee!:lol:


if anyone else needs to vent/stress out here, go for it!

[camohn]

one due april 15th, the other not until june 7th

i have gone through my normal stages.

1) denial...."oh it's weeks away, no need to get frazzled"
2) anxiety...."what if something goes wrong, what do i do?"
and finally...
3) impatient...."now 4 weeks is seeming like an eternity, i just want the darn things to start popping out NOW!"

anyone else with me?

please add your own obsessive stages, i'm always looking for something new to fret about! HAHA
Not here since the mare that is due first (4/26) had a red bag/bad placentitis foal 30 days early last time out and possible mild placentitis this time.....so we are doing the Stay In There And Bake dance!

[aiken4horses]

My mare's at 347. Everyone's calling me every day "Foal?" No, no foal YET!!

She's huge but the way she gallops up the fenceline at feeding time I'm afraid she's gonna make the foal seasick.

How close to foaling will the foal shift into position?

[sporthorsefilly]

My mare will be 340 on 3/22, she is now on 24 hr watch with our "horsenurse." For me, the first 320 days are easy...but the last few weeks, I would like the foal to appear and become more anticipatory for the birth. I would drive the mare crazy if she were here! So I go for short visits with lots of carrots. She is just 15 minutes from me, so that is easy.

She is bagging up which is great, now if I can just calm down and wait :)

[fish]

Mine is due day after tomorrow and has been 4 hours away at Va. Tech since Feb. 27 because of discharge suggesting placentitis that refused to abate despite antibiotics productive of negative cultures here at home. Va. Tech finally seems to have gotten it under control, my mare's come full term, she and the fetus both look healthy, and "impatient" becomes a grosser understatement of my condition with every passing day. Milk test yesterday said not today, maybe this weekend. Especially because one of my best friends is now worried sick over her mare who's now at 363 days (just sent her to the vet's to foal out), I'm far from a "stay in there as long as you like" mood. I want a healthy baby now, hoping against hope that there will, after all, be little or no need for the neonatal unit I'm paying to have close by. My bags and trailer are packed and ready to go at a moment's notice, and I visit my mare for a couple days every week or so regardless-- it's important to show those newly rotated students how to treat her, right?

Somewhere around 9 months, I always seem to start beating myself over the head, saying I never should have done this to my mare, have neither the courage nor the bank account to be a breeder, I've learned my lesson and will never do it again... blah, blah, blah.

[pony grandma]

Somewhere around 9 months, I always seem to start beating myself over the head, saying I never should have done this to my mare, have neither the courage nor the bank account to be a breeder, I've learned my lesson and will never do it again... blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, right! :lol: And just like I've said before - "I won't buy another horse, I won't buy another horse." "Well .... how much do you want for the damn thing?"

Enjoy all the ups and downs, the thrills!! - I have to live vicariously thru you guys this spring.

Here's a link that I put on another thread (just to share a nice little expecting any day story in case you missed it) to an essay that my dairy farmer lady friend down the road wrote for the C.S. Monitor about the expectant birthing of one of our foals two years ago. Just a treat for us horse baby whinney freaks and a teaser to hurry up and bring the spring season on faster.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0522/p18s02-hfes.html

[fish]

Yikes-- just got the call from Virginia that my mare is waxed up. I am OUTA HERE!

[SteeleRdr]

Our lone mare is due May 30th.

I'm in the stage of "Oh goodness, she's started waddling!! How am I going to fit in school/work/foal watch!"

Which is shortly followed by a prayer for it not be a red-headed filly.