OMG wicked cute – two of the black and white piglets at McGuire are play-fighting!
ETA: Most, not all, have a white band around the middle. Two are black and white; the others are brownish with or without white. Right now it’s a piglet swarm on the sow.
Looks like Aniya at Bowman is in labor. She’s lying down, alternating sternal and flat, androm and laughed with surprise when I said Massachusetts. Says they don’t know Aniya’s breeding, think she’s a Foxtrotter, and she’s got a disposition to die for and will glide along all day on the trail.
Greetings still hasn’t foaled. Two women have come in, one to pick the stall, the other to make much of the mare and brush her a bit. Greetings is still pacing, still no baby. Still sucky feed that keeps breaking up.
Well, the Bowman people have been in to check on Aniya, and apparently they think I’m right; they’ve cleaned the stall and laid down fresh straw, washed under her tail, and are now, it appears, about to wrap her tail. Ah – looks like they’re about to milk her to test it, see if it says “Baby coming!”
I’m pretty obsessed, too, so you’re not alone. Tonight I have three up on my monitor - Greetings at Centaur, Jadzia at Elements, and Aniya at Bowman. All are supposed to be pretty close.
During the day, when I’m at work, I keep a few windows of mares open and every now and then I check out the MareStare board and the ETF updates to see who’s close. When I’m watching TV in the evening I can see my computer monitor from the couch, so I keep an eye on two or three during the evening. Then, when my cat, Bob, wakes me up in the middle of the night for food and to go out, I take a quick check on my current interests. So I’m pretty much watching this thing around the clock.
Hahahahahaha!!! I mentioned to the Bowman people what a kick I got out of the “Mark - She’s out sunbathing” sign, and Vickie Bowman just emailed me back:
Wow, she did the whole thing standing up. Probably because the human jumped in and started pulling the foal out right from the beginning. A little too involved, there.
Damn, look at the mare in the upper left screen at Sunny Pines – does she look way too thin to you?
ETA: Now she’s standing at a different angle, doesn’t look so bad; at a three-quarters facing the camera angle you could see her backbone and her hips were jutting out.
This thread from COTH about helping with foal was revealing to me. Apparently that’s the thing now, to “apply pressure” even if not outright pulling a foal. I always thought mpst horses did best on their own, barring emergency.