Marestare - Mare looks like she is in labour (?)

Oh right haha. I just saw it move and i was like argh haha. I was downstairs making cheese on toast (and burnt my thumb cooking it on the aga haha) and came back and mare was fine but some random black thing had appeared haha.
Ooh now its gone.. :D
 
You could be in for a long wait though, I'm on foal watch here, have been for two weeks now and still no foal, we've got one mare that is 368 days pregnant, sigh. No wax just big boobies and slack (well you guess). That mare on marestare is eating so might be holding on for a bit, but then she has been lip curling too!
 
is her tail up? or is it just the way shes standing? :o

It was earlier, she doesnt look as restless as she was earlier either. Looks like I am in for a late night - I'm determined to see this one through to the end:D

So can anyone tell me what to watch out for next? I know Heather on Barnmice says that you may see "butt dipping" when the contractions kick in properly but is there anything else, will she do a lot of laying down and getting up.....?
 
Depends on the mare, typically most of mine do a fair amount of walking about, thinking about lying down then walking about some more. She doesn't look that likely right now. Once she breaks waters and hopefully lies down then it doesn't take that long.
 
Let's hope the foal arrives today, so that she can have that tail bandage taken off.

I think the biggest problem here is that the mare appears to be in the main part of the stable block so she's seeing lots going on. Shame they don't have a quiet stable to put her in, away from the main goings on. She looks like she has gone back into stage 1 again, let's hope that this time she doesn't cancel it out again.
 
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