OFFICIAL: Who's having their first foal this year?

[dressurpferd01]

Ok, so I've helped foal out a few dozen mares over the past few years, but never had my own. Bred my 4 yr old Rousseau x Rubinstein mare this year and nearly killed her in the process (don't ask), and she's due Feb 22. Who else is having their first foal this year?

[lalyho]

I am ridiculously excited to have my first four legged baby this year. After a inseminating post ovulation my 14 yo maiden took first time. I can wait! Estrada was bred to Royal Prince due around May.

And for fun here is her pedigree and a photo over the summer when she was about 4 months along (after all, any opportunity to show the princess off!):

http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/estrada11

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29112380@N04/4038774956/

[TrotTrotPumpkn]

ME! And I CAN'T WAIT until May 20th.

Gabriella II (Galoubet A / Abdullah) is expecting a foal by Landfriese II. It's her second foal and my first. You can see HRH in my tag line below. So far so good--she's in perfect weight, etc.

I got a foal halter from Quinlin's for Christmas from my mother and father-in-law. I left it hanging on the door (so I can look at it every time I go in and out of the "cat"/"horse" bedroom in my basement).

I've started ordering foal training/handling books. Just in case there is something I should know that's different. Makes me feel better, anyway. Luckily, I found an equine vet and his breeder wife to foal her out for me!!!

[ex-racer owner]

ME! I was offered an opportunity to "invest" ;) in a broodmare prospect earlier this year so I am the co-owner of an Accord III mare that is now in foal to Escapade I. The mare lives at my partner's farm in Florida, so my involvement is rather limited, think along the lines of writes checks occasionally and pets horse when visiting. I really do have the better part of the deal. :lol:

[SOTB]

I hope everyone will post pics. The pics of everyone's new babies in the spring is the best!

[dressurpferd01]

Will have pics once mine arrives. Turns out I might be on foal watch by myself possibly when she goes. Not excited about that. My wife is much more experienced at foaling than me, and I don't do so well under big stress like that. But hopefully everything will go well. Biggest thing I'm worried about is the mare was orphaned at 2 wks old, so that kind of scares me, but hopefully all will go well.

Some pics of mom:

This was a month ago...
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g154/keymaster4225/iPhonepics017.jpg

She's so sweet (really she doesn't know personal space due to the orphan thing)...
http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g154/keymaster4225/?action=view&current=iPhonepics023.jpg

And one more, champion non-Hano mare at her inspection:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g154/keymaster4225/ruby.jpg

[Bhaltair Farm]

I'm waiting anxiously for my 8 yr old Trakehner mare, Pirouette's Pasha by Hilton GS out of Pirouette, to foal.

She's due any day now with a foal by Darren Chiacchia's young eventing star Zauberruf, can't wait to see the little one for the first time!!

[TrotTrotPumpkn]

I'm waiting anxiously for my 8 yr old Trakehner mare, Pirouette's Pasha by Hilton GS out of Pirouette, to foal.

She's due any day now with a foal by Darren Chiacchia's young eventing star Zauberruf, can't wait to see the little one for the first time!!

Good luck and I hope you are somewhere warm! I don't even want to go outside right now! It's -13 with the windchill.

[Bhaltair Farm]

Good luck and I hope you are somewhere warm! I don't even want to go outside right now! It's -13 with the windchill.


Thanks! Fortunately we're in Florida, she's at Darren's farm in Ocala.

Can't wait for the call that she's foaling!!

[Faircourt]

Congrats to all on their first babies! Warning- you will be hooked! My first baby is turning four this year, I can't believe it's been so long. Being there for her foaling was one of the coolest experiences of my life, i hope you are all able to witness it - I missed the next three, the mares were just too fast (Ithey all foaled out in the car of the vet and I was about an hour away- except for the last surprise baby)! Please post pictures, no babies for me this year so I will have to live vicariously :)

[VarsityHero4]

I've done a lot of foaling as all of the barns I've ever worked at have had a breeding operation of some sorts, the latest being a legit breeding farm with 30+ foals per year so that was awesome getting to see a whole plethora of things that could happen during gestation/birth. In August I was given this mare by the owner of the aforementioned breeding farm because she went blind in 08 when she was already in foal for 09. After she had the foal the woman gave her to me to save her having to put her down, she has about 100 horses and no time/space to accommodate a blind horse (poor girl was getting chased through fences by her VERY hormonal mare "friends").

As a thanks the woman put her in foal for me to the stallion that all of her foals have been sired by, one of which has been pretty successful in the higher levels of dressage. I think it may be a colt since she's been acting awfully stallion-y lately, I'd much prefer fillies though... (crossed fingers!) She's due in the second week of June.

http://www.facebook.com/#/photo.php?pid=3099779&id=601296926 (Piper and her ridiculously social 09 filly)

[dressagediosa]

We bred my Grand Prix Hanoverian mare, EMC Clairvoya, for embryo transfer last year. Dad is UB-40. Waiting on a filly in June! SO excited.

[BitterAJ]

My little mare (Lauriston x Stonegrove Ace) is just about six months in foal with my first foal by Millenium. I am very, very excited to have one to keep, as I usually just get to take care of everyone else's babies.

[Molly's Mom]

Me too...I am expecting my first foal who is sired by Blue Hors Hertug out of my Danish mare Daphne x Rambo. I got Daphne when she was 5.5 months along and here we are with only
40 days to go [due Feb 9th]. This is thrilling,exciting and a making me a little nervous.....hugh responsibility.
Daphne, herself, is looking happy,healthy and relaxed....of course
this is her 4th foal and my first...LOL

[Piatt Farms]

I am! I am!
I posted my "I'm a newbie and freaked out" question in Horse Care. She's 325 days, due at the end of Jan. Equal parts freaked out and excited...

I have another one due July 4th, sired by Edelweiss de Bonce out of my TB/Old N/A mare. Should be BIG and BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Piaffe~Passage]

:DI had my first foal, last April, I leased my best friends mare, and bred her to Schroeder. This also, was my 1st ever horse, that I could call mine. So that very much added to the excitement. Good luck to everyone, it really is an experience of a lifetime.

[HickoryHill]

I'm getting my first foal around the middle of May. Still a while to go but I'm very excited. I'm leasing the mare and she was bred to Dacaprio. She'll foal out at her owner's farm but hopefully I'll be there when it happens.