# 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:** 42
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/821 "2010-04-06T23:41:44Z")
Tea-Bao’s nursing now! ---
**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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/822 "2010-04-06T23:43:15Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Website says they breed [Knabstruppers.](http://www.knabstruppers.com/) That breed originated form Spanish blood. That site mentions the introduction of American Appaloosa blood at one point: You know… I wondered if that was a Knabstrupper, I thought it looked bigger than most Appies. Gorgeous!! And little bitty teeny tiny Bao… SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I want to pick him up and squeeze him! TOO DAMNED CUTE! ---
**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, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/823 "2010-04-06T23:46:01Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > And little bitty teeny tiny Bao… SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I want to pick him up and squeeze him! TOO DAMNED CUTE! I know! I want to squeeze him and love him and pat him and hug him and call him George. ---
**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, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/824 "2010-04-06T23:47:19Z")
> [@FloatyGimpy](#): > > I know! I want to squeeze him and love him and pat him and hug him and call him George. Well, you can’t; he’s Tea-Bao. 😃 ---
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/825 "2010-04-06T23:50:11Z")
Is Tea-Bao actually a boy or have we all just decided he is? ---
**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, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/826 "2010-04-06T23:51:29Z")
Definitely; I saw her come in with the “It’s a colt” sign for the camera. ---
**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, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/827 "2010-04-06T23:55:12Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Definitely; I saw her come in with the “It’s a colt” sign for the camera. Ah. Well he’s got the eating thing down pat. ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/828 "2010-04-07T00:01:41Z")
Boy, he’s cow-hocked. I wonder if that’ll straighten out? **PapSett** - Better watch that squeeeing, or you’ll open your door someday and find Peanut tied to your front porch. I could load him in the back of my station wagon and bring him up. He wouldn’t cost anything to keep, and he keeps escaping from the big pasture. He’s been in time-out for a week now. StG ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/829 "2010-04-07T00:08:12Z")
Moka’s got her tail up and is pacing… ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/830 "2010-04-07T00:08:14Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Boy, he’s cow-hocked. I wonder if that’ll straighten out? So you agree with me; that doesn’t look like wobbly-baby sprawl, eh? Yoicks. Just got another good look at him from behind and yes, Tea-Bao is wicked cow-hocked. ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/831 "2010-04-07T00:12:17Z")
Will his legs straighten out properly? They wouldn’t cull for something like that, would they? ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/832 "2010-04-07T00:18:58Z")
My guess is, Tea-Bao will be gelded and sold as a pet if he doesn’t uncow-hock. ---
**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 7, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/833 "2010-04-07T00:25:19Z")
**FloatyGimpy** - According to what I’ve read, things can correct themselves a great deal in a couple days or weeks. And because minis are pets and not performance horses, I doubt they would, unless he couldn’t move. It seems to me he can get around okay. 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 7, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/834 "2010-04-07T00:41:04Z")
The mystery of the bedding at Silver Creek is solved! Earlier today, I emailed them thusly: > [@](#): > > Hi there! I’m a Mare Stare camaholic watching your lovely mares LaDeDa and Athena, and had a question: What kind of bedding are the girls on? I notice it’s different for each of them; Athena seems to be on straw or hay, while LDD is on – well, is it sand? It’s way too fine to be shavings, not to mention that would be terribly dusty if it were shavings that fine. > > Your facility is gorgeous! Such wonderfully large foaling stalls, and I very much like the total mesh fronts, for the light and air and safe social interaction they offer the mares. > > Sorry to bother you when you’re probably juggling a million things, but my curiosity could be no longer restrained. Best of luck with all your babies! Here is the answer I just got: > [@](#): > > Hi, > > Thanks!. They are both on very fine shavings but it is kiln dried so it is almost dust free. We love it because it is absorbent and very easy to clean. If we think they might foal, straw goes down on top of that. Athena was behaving strangely earlier, so straw went down, but I am not sure that she is that close. ---
**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 7, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/835 "2010-04-07T01:08:29Z")
Awwww, Tea-Bao’s getting his sea legs. He was just cavorting. ---
**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 7, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/836 "2010-04-07T02:25:56Z")
I had to go out for a bit, he looks like he’s standing a bit better. Of all the foals we’ve seen so far, Barry is my favourite. I’ve never seen a horse with such a crazy personality, I bet he’s going to be a real handful when he’s older. All the other horse moms don’t like it when a person is doing something to their baby but Mandy seems quite happy to have someone else deal with the kid for a while. ---
**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 7, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/837 "2010-04-07T03:00:33Z")
Barry seems to me to be the healthiest, best-conformed of all the foals we’ve seen so far. And yes, he’s just bursting with personality. With the right training he’s going to be a superb horse some day. And I love his two-tone tail, if only because it reminds me of a couple of [pictures](http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1000805411000735275) I have of my Quarter Horse Nick [as a foal.](http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1000805410000735275). ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/838 "2010-04-07T03:39:09Z")
But Barry isn’t a show horse is he? I thought he was sort of a mutt. Is he a special ‘kind’ of horse (besides the cute kind?) ---
**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 7, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/839 "2010-04-07T03:56:52Z")
Oh, no, Barry isn’t a mutt; he’s a purebred Quarter Horse, and from talking with Large Woman’s daughter I gather he has a very fine pedigree on both his sire and his dam’s side. Look at Mandy: She may be old, she may have seen hard times, but her quality is undeniable; she just shouts “wellbred”. Barry could grow up to be a prize-winner in any number of spheres. ---
**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 7, 2010, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800/840 "2010-04-07T04:15:53Z")
Yeah it’s interesting isn’t it, Mandy had a ginked ear and is on the older side, but man, she’s a looker. Even someone like me, who has no experience with horses, can see that she is solid quality. She holds her own even against the fancy mares in the fancy barns. And Barry is already proud as a peacock and knows he’s sumthin’ sumthin’. I’ll sure miss watching them when they turn off the webcam. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800.md?page=41) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-foaling-cam/531800.md?page=43)