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Spent the weekend up at my parent's place doing a foal watch, which is basically hanging out and eating when not creepily following a pregnant mare around. Eventually we just put her in the backyard, so we could watch her without leaving the couch.
She took her own sweet time about it, but around 2pm yesterday she went into labor and by 2:30 we had a healthy baby boy (I'll spare you the details). My sister was on hand with her camera, most of the photos here are hers.
Not pictured: Echo (the mare) poking him with her hoof when nuzzling didn't get him up. She's not patient with newborns.
Then she wandered off to eat grass and left us with drying duty. That's the whole point of having human midwives around, right?
Standing = success! Only took him 15 minutes.
Tiny horse is tiny! Although he's a good sized baby for the breed.
Even though most of him is leg.
The silvery coloring will darken in a couple of days - he's actually a solid black like his mom. His official name has 'black' in it and his barn name will probably be Blackie, because my mom's pants at creative names.
Being born is hard work!
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Date: 2011-05-23 04:28 pm (UTC)I looooove the last pic. Baby horse is adorbs, and I envy you the pretty green grass. We haven't had rain here and all of ours is dry and brown.
- Bonnie
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Date: 2011-05-23 04:40 pm (UTC)They're miniature horses! For when ponies just aren't small enough. My family (mostly my mom and sister) raises and shows them.
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Date: 2011-05-23 08:11 pm (UTC)Also it's nice that the mare decided to have the foal in the afternoon instead of the middle of the night!
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