Hannah's foal alarm went off last night

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...but still no foalie
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She was very very restless all night, and has not slept at all (then again, neither have I
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). I checked on her at 3am, then at 4am and then at 4.30am the alarm went off. It took my friend and I about ten minutes t decide what the noise was (was it the heater/monitor/car outside)...

Turned it off and watched her via the CCTV and she was really uncomfortable, kept jerking her head up every so often, and looking at her tummy. But at 5.30am she started eating her haylage and seems to have been quiet since then. She had milk down her legs this morning and had definitely waxed up.

I turned her out for a few hours and she kept swishing her tail and was looking generally uncomfortable. So I brought her in, gave her a very quick brush because she was getting annoyed with me doing that (hence the mud on her tail in the pictures) and gave her breakfast to her. She ALWAYS eats at least half, but she took the carrots out and then left it completely alone. She just didn't seem interested at all.

These pictures were taken after she had been in the field. Her bag did go down a little while she was out, but there was wet milk down her legs when I brought her in so I suspect it is because of this more than anything else.

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Any comments much appreciated...
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No helpful comments from me I'm afraid, just wanted to say "Come on Hannah" - I thought you were going to announce the arrival of a little one when I saw the port title
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OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! The candles are forming
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Hope you become a proud foal owner by the end of the weekend honey, you must be shattered! I wouldn't venture v far today!
 
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LOL Weezy- you know when I saw those pics the first thing I thought of was GTs's candles!
 
it's gonna be this afternoon!!!!

I was brushing my pregnant mare myfanwy today and looked at her udder she is getting very close too!!!!

fingers crossed can't wait to hear..............xxx

hugs to hannah
 
I can't stand the suspense much longer!!!!! Nor can I belive I'm this excited about a mare I have never met having a foal, god knows how your feeling (appart from shattered). Good luck, fingers crossed, it can't be long now surely!!!
 
I am absolutely shattered... she had the wax on yesterday, more than that as I think the milk is just coming out now so removing the wax with the pressure. I just feel as though she is always going to be pregnant and I am always going to be living in a caravan at this moment in time
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Oooo how exciting!!! Does your alarm work on the mare sweating?
Tell Hannah to push as my boss is thinking of using Pro Set this year and wants to see her baby!
 
You'll not know what to do with yourself without living in the caravan and checking on her every hour!

Poor Hannah, she must be so fed up! Hope all goes well when she is folaing!
 
Where is that foal!
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I was half expecting a foal with your post title but then thought no, if there was a mini Hannah then there would be the longest post ever of about 50 pages of excited HHOers, myself included LOL!
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She looks bigger and bigger everytime we get a photo update though, can't be long now
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good luck to both of you , dont forget to take a flask when you check on her you could be down there for a while .this foal is famous will you be putting in a how much ?
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I am getting confused. A few days ago I thought she was running milk.
Looking at her udder she should start running milk herself soon
Only when shes running milk do you need to get excited
I mean running it herself not withanyone helping .
My friends highland is due in the next few days so im going down to see how shes looking this afternoon.
 
She wasn't running milk yesterday, I said it had leaked onto her legs in the night while she had been lay down and she had waxed up.

This morning there is milk all down her legs from over night and then more from when she went out in the field for two hours (I cleaned them before she went out so I could see whether she was doing). It is coming out on its own, but I was brushing her tummy as she had been rolling and noticed some new blood (you may remember a post a few days ago) so I sort of ran my hand down her udders to get the blood off and lots of milk came rushing out through the pressure I was applying.

Does that make sense?
 
Judging by the wax she will foal sometime today or tonight. Hope it all goes well - thankfully i have another 3 weeks before my first mare is due.
 
Thanks Alise, the wax was larger before she went out, but like I said she had some milk down her legs which seems to have dislodged what was there this morning and last night.

I am going to check on her in an hour or two... there is a lot of activity down at our yard at the weekend so I am guessing she won't want to do it during the day when there is so much going on. I will be there from 8pm tonight I think, just in case.
 
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