Foal Alarms - advice!

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Well, we have 2 1/2 months to go, and the tension is mounting...
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Beth is going to be foaling at the livery where she has been for past 2 years, and all is going well in creating foaling box etc for her. My house is about 2 miles away from the stables, so I have 2 choices coming up to the birth date - hire a caravan to sleep in next to her stable, OR hire a birth alarm. I've just been investigating one from Kylix that calls your mobile phone when the horse lies down and contractions start. It goes over her withers, and is secured by leather straps just in front of where a girth would go. Has anyone used one of these? Do you think I'm fussing? (She is a maiden mare, and Im a novice at this!) And I'm a bit worried about whether the birth alarm will be uncomfortable/distracting for her .... Advice please for an anxious mum!
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I will be camping out when Amy is due to foal. Lucily it will be in YO's house with CCTV - but if I didn't have that option it would be in the back of the car.

I'm not sure how reliable the alarms are tbh.
 
My Mare foaled for the first time last year, she was 10. It was my first foal too. She was overdue (a colt i was told).
All went well, everything was there one early morning a colt black with four whites and a blaze. It was very moving. Relax and enjoy.....
 
Im lucky enough to have my horses at home (live on farm), but i've decided against a foaling alarm, because they are expensive even to hire (£20 per week). So im doing what Tia is doing which is to buy a test kit-

Test Kit

This way it tells you that the mare will foal within 24 hours.
 
Ask your vet about the implants that can be sown into the lips of the vulva. These can differentiate between urine and allantoic fluid - I have NO idea how expensive they are, nor have I ever used them, but I do know of people that swear by them!
 
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