SHES IN FOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *IM GUTTED!!!!!

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My new girlie has just been confirmed in foal and due in 14 days.... Im gutted!
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This is the SECOND time ive bought a mare who popped one out 11 months later- i know it seems selfish but i had so many things planned this summer and im completley gutted.

I knew something was up with her, she hasnt seemed 'right' for the past few weeks (unhappy being ridden) then today i notice her udders are up- laughing at the sheer patheticness of it being her in foal i ask my vet to check for mastitis from fly bites... he then calls me and asks if im stting down
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She doesnt even look pregnant!

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Vet said shes carrying no extra weigt aside from baby- he did an internal to make 100% sure.
Im sure these sellers see 'FOOL' on my forehead before i even phone up
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I hate selling horses, but i cant possibly even contend the thought of 4.

On the plus side it'll be a full Sec D (she must of been covered while at breeders judging by passport)

-and my hand has swollen from a fly bit and its fcuking painful!!!!
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Blimey, bit of a shock, no wonder she wasn't happy being ridden.
Send her over to me, I'll foal her down and keep the foal
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then I'll send her back at weaning, that way you won't get attached to the foal and won't have to deal with selling it LOL;)
 
Her belly looks every so slightly dipped but i know alot of gelding like that too! A similar thing happend to a friend of mine, little mare came with a foal at foot, just being weaned, then few months later were galloping it up devon hills trying to get weight off it then few days latter out came a beautiful little colt. It was very odd seeing a broodie with a high trace clip!

I'd be dissapointed at first if this happened to me but v excited too, esp if it was gona be a Sec D! Automatic pair driving! I'd be straight out there buying every foaling book there is! or asking you lot! lol
 
I suppose if you're at livery this means paying for 2? I'm lucky in that I pay for a field rather than per horse.

When I bought my Sec D youngster she was so fat I thought she might be up the duff, and I was secretly excited, but now she's slimmed right down, and I've had her a year so no.

Your mare is lovely, looks a bit like mine!

Hope this doesn't bankrupt you - I bet the foal will be gorgeous though and you won't want to wave it goodbye
 
Strange re-action I would be thrilled if one of mine was going to have a foalio - (could be tough theyre all geldings!) but your mare is a good looking girl - should be a lovely foal, you can get back on sooner or later as you please, I know of a polo pony who had a foal and 6 weeks later was playing chukkas again!
 
At a yard we used to be at, unwitting YO who didn't know much about horses bought a mini shettie 'gelding' for his daughter, 'he' popped a foal 5 days later!!!
 
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Strange re-action I would be thrilled if one of mine was going to have a foalio -

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You might not if you had no idea who the sire was! Also foals are expensive and a pretty long-term commitment.
They are fun though, and so cute
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I know of a polo pony who had a foal and 6 weeks later was playing chukkas again!

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Did the foal watch?
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I started riding PF gently a month after she foaled last time but foal followed us around.
 
Im fully aware foals are pricey little monsters we used to have 3 or 4 TB foals and stocks every year!

No it stayed in the round yard with its other foalie friends. didnt mind at all - lifes tough when your an aussie whaler! (stock pony often used/crossed in with TB polo lines where I was based in NSW) But I suspect if you live in Argy land then you know that already!!!
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Most top polo ponies here are TBs but you're quite right that at lower levels they're cow-pony X TBs. The really grand ladies don't get any time off to have babies at all! Embryo transfer is HUGE business here.
Someone once told me that PF had been covered by a stallion at the Old Yard. I was GUTTED as he would've been absolute rock bottom on my stallion choice list! Luckily she hadn't.
 
Is your mare registered?

If so can you trace her history? can you go back to the previous owners and try and find out who covered her/ who the sire was and is he regestered if so get the covering certificate and this will enable you to register the foal. If you can't find out this information and your mare is registed then it will be worth your while registering the foal as a part bred at least and then when & if you sell it, it will have some paper work & be worth more.
 
Oh EF i'm so sorry for you
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Anything I can do to help , even if you want a horse to ride
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I can't imagine how you feel
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PM if you want ....
 
Can't you send her back and get the money back. You bought a riding horse not a brood mare. Foals are not cheap horses, to raise a foal to the age it can be ridden and then the cost/time of breaking-in etc. you can probably buy 3 horses.
 
It shouldn't be too long until you can ride again - foal will just follow by mummy's side, after all in the wild it would have to run for its life within its first few days.

Sorry about your competition plans though - I'm guessing in-hand showing didn't feature?
 
We were back riding our mare after a 6wks with foal following along (in the school, then the feild). We were lucky though because he had the yearling as a mate, & it was not long before he wanted to stay with him while mum went out. So long as they are both happy it should be no problem & Mo even went to shows once her son was 5mths old. I also dont know of any yard (but sure there are) that charge for a foal before 6mths of age.

Good luck.
 
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I know normally its an exciting thing but im afraid its not a welcomed baby!

I just pray to god its a happy pregnancy and niether baby nor my girl have any complications!

The old owners wont have her back- they only had her for 8 months so its before them anyway, but not only that- im attached to her, shes my little star!

I'm finding out in the next few days who dad 'may' be- shes registered.. If only it came out a coloured- id be happer! lol

No chance though, dad is probably a bay or chesnut knowing my luck!
 
The same thing happened to me 2 years ago in July. I bought mine at the beginning of the month and on the 27th a foal was born! She didn't look pregnant either and the previous owners had only had her 8 months so were unaware. I was gutted but she had a beautiful appaloosa colt who was, luckily, very easy to handle and a real joy to be around. We sold him at weaning though as I am not confident or experienced enough to have brought him on. Good luck with yours.
 
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