Rollestone foal cam - anyone knnow whats happening.......

[MissIndependance]

Oh and this http://groups.msn.com/Rollestone/randompictures.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=132 was her udder this morning...

 

[spaniel]

Rollestone, given these mares often drip quite a bit of milk before they actually deliver the foal, is this colostrum rich milk that is being lost or does that kick in during the actual birth of the foal. If you had a mare that was running milk for days on end would she be depleting her colostrum stock?

 

[dieseldog]

She looks very relaxed at the moment

 

[madgirl]

hope it is tonight lol!

 

[exracemad]

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She looks very relaxed at the moment

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Yeah she does, if she stops eating, like now, does that usually symbalise [sp?] something?

 

[MissIndependance]

Spaniel - I've spoken to breeder friends and vets about this and the general consensus is that if it goes on for over 3 or 4 days then you might want to try and milk off some colostrum but a couple of days is ok...

A lot of the really good stuff isn't released until baby arrives so it's normally ok...

 

[spaniel]

Thanks for that....I worry! Nature knows best.

 

[Equus Leather]

Evening everyone. I'm munching on some galaxy now in preparation!

(I really should be marking this set of books for tomorrow....)