# Live Foaling Cam **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800 "2010-03-09T02:41:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/761 "2010-04-05T14:57:07Z")
I’m finally in the right place at the right time and they have the camera set to jump from mare to mare, grrr. Very irritating. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/762 "2010-04-05T15:40:06Z")
woman just came in to check Lady’s teats. That little girl seems restless. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/763 "2010-04-05T16:12:14Z")
Ha! Sarenia was all excited, pacing up and down the front of her stall, looking out expectantly. A human came, put a lead rope on, and took her out. And Stella stayed behind! Another human had to come in, pursue her for a bit, make a human wall toward the open door, and finally push her little butt out. Then she trotted off out of sight after mom. I’d noticed previously that Stella seems to spend a fair amount of time standing some distance away from mom. Independent little cuss, isn’t she? ETA: Stalls are empty at Sonesta, Silver Creek, and True Colours – clean and ready but nobody home. Still nothing happening at Pacific Pintos. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/764 "2010-04-05T17:04:54Z")
Holy cow, the barn at Silver Creek is many time fancier than my house. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/765 "2010-04-05T20:45:25Z")
Not that we really need any more of these, but - meet Moka! [http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=elements](http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=elements) pretty mare - and I like the ones with nice cams like this 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/766 "2010-04-05T20:47:58Z")
That is a good camera! It looks like she might foal pretty soon, too: “Moka is back inside and on cam 1 with more wax and mushy poo.” ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/767 "2010-04-05T22:21:36Z")
Oh, great, just what I needed, another time-sucker. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/768 "2010-04-05T23:42:37Z")
Silver Creek is beautiful! I wonder what they’re bedding on? I wish they’d have info about the mare. StG ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/769 "2010-04-06T00:10:48Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Silver Creek is beautiful! I wonder what they’re bedding on? I wish they’d have info about the mare. > > StG Some info on the mare, LaDeDa, at the [Mare Stare message board.](http://latigo.marestare.com/forum/index.php?topic=21491.0) She’s not listed among the Silver Creek broodmares, so perhaps she belongs to someone who sent her there for foaling and rebreeding to one of their studs? Ha! Silver Creek has a [Second cam working](http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=silvercreektwo)! That mare, Athena, is also not in the website list of broodies. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/770 "2010-04-06T00:20:07Z")
Hey! If you go through the list of public cams at Mare Stare, and type any of the active names into the alias in the URL of a cam you’re already watching, you can get into other live camcasts. That’s how I got into [Maple Creek Arabians](http://www.marestare.com/fcam.php?alias=maplecreek) without having to download the software from the MareStare site. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/771 "2010-04-06T00:25:26Z")
> [@Walkabout](#): > > That is a good camera! It looks like she might foal pretty soon, too: “Moka is back inside and on cam 1 with more wax and mushy poo.” She just had her tail wrapped. In blue, not pink. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/772 "2010-04-06T00:35:32Z")
Awwwwwwww Moka’s human is outside her stall now, just hanging with her, loving on her. Moka’s eating it up in her placed way. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/773 "2010-04-06T01:54:45Z")
[Here’s video of Moon and her baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08V_8Q60TI)Look at that baby move! And see how excited all the other horses are! I don’t think Moon wants her baby close to the fence. StG ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/774 "2010-04-06T02:14:27Z")
Moon is strikingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/775 "2010-04-06T07:57:10Z")
Barry is one weird little horse. Mandy pee’d and then Barry smelled it. Then he did that thing again where he lifts his head way up and opens his lips so his teeth are showing. Then he tried to hump Mandy’s side. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/776 "2010-04-06T11:31:20Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > [Here’s video of Moon and her baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08V_8Q60TI)Look at that baby move! And see how excited all the other horses are! I don’t think Moon wants her baby close to the fence. > > StG Wow… gorgeous! That sure made my morning! Love the Appaloosa in the other pasture too! ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/777 "2010-04-06T13:22:00Z")
Update from Elements Arabians regarding Moka: “I can’t believe she hasn’t foaled yet!!! Milk all over legs!” I’ve been watching her a bit this morning, and she is looking a bit uncomfortable, with some stamping and restlessness. Right now they are cleaning her stall, so she’s been taken out. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/778 "2010-04-06T13:53:16Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > Barry is one weird little horse. Mandy pee’d and then Barry smelled it. Then he did that thing again where he lifts his head way up and opens his lips so his teeth are showing. Then he tried to hump Mandy’s side. No, Barry is a proper little man, baby! What he was doing is called the [flehmen response](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flehmen_response). > [@](#): > > In the flehmen response, animals draw back their lips in a manner that makes them appear to be “grimacing”. The action, which is adopted when examining scents left by other animals either of the same species or of prey, helps expose the vomeronasal organ and draws scent molecules back toward it. This behavior allows animals to detect scents, for example from urine, of other members of their species or clues to the presence of prey. Flehming allows the animals to determine several factors, including the presence or absence of estrus, the physiological state of the animal, and how long ago the animal passed by. This particular response is recognizable, for example, in stallions when smelling the urine of a mare in heat. And why might stud-to-be Barry be displaying the flehmen response? Why, most likely it’s Mandy’s [foal heat](http://www.extension.org/faq/107): “It is the time 7 to 11 days after foaling that the mare is receptive to the stallion and will stand for breeding. Some mares will show foal heat as early as 1 to 2 days. Ovulation usually occurs on the eighth to twelfth day after foaling. Some mares may not show the behavioral signs of being in heat at this time due in part to being protective of the newborn foal. However, a very high percentage of mares will develop follicles and ovulate.” ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/779 "2010-04-06T13:54:40Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > [Here’s video of Moon and her baby.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J08V_8Q60TI)Look at that baby move! And see how excited all the other horses are! I don’t think Moon wants her baby close to the fence. > > StG Oh my gosh! That’s just too cute for words! And I love the horse that looks like a dalmation. I’ve never seen one colored like that before. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/780 "2010-04-06T13:57:54Z")
Hah! Just got to see Barry do the teeth thing - too funny! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800.md?page=40)