Waiting for junior - how overdue can they be?

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Our pony mare was covered on 1 June 06 and so was 11 months in foal on 1st of May, and 340 days (average gestation period I understand) on 6th May.

She bagged up only a little about 10 days/a week ago and hasn't progressed any since then. Foal eager to get out it seems and kicking madly but no further bagging up or waxing or milk running.

How late could be considered normal do you think?? Children (and adults!) excited and waiting for action...
 
She is only two days over her due date!!!!! Don't mean to depress you but she could go another month quite comfortably! It is not unusual for a mare to go over her official due date by anything up to about 4 weeks. If she has only just started bagging up I'm guessing it's not imminent just yet, sorry!
 
20 days either way is pretty normal. They can hang on for a hell of a lot longer though
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Just keep a close eye on her. some haven't read the official rule book.

My mare had bagged up, then shrunk, with only tiny crystals on her teats, not much slackening and absolutely no signs of restlessness, running milk. She was fine at 11pm saturday night. Had me running around the woods at 6 the next morning in wellies and a dressing gown trying to catch a foal that had rolled under a fence during the night. If I'd had any clues the mare would have been in
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It didn't help that the woman I bought her from couldn't even remember what month she'd gone in with the stallion
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I hope when yours comes all goes well and both will be OK. Good Luck.
 
I'm afraid it is just a waiting game (very annoying though i know!).

A friends mare was 4 weeks late last year, and by the sounds of it your mare has a few weeks to go.

Can we have some stats please? age, breed, in-foal to, etc?

Good Luck, my fingers are crossed for you.
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Hi Measles - we are in the same position, and its driving us mad!!!
Our mare was due on the 5th, and has bagged up, has had some tiny crystals on her teats, muscles really relaxed around her tail - all the classic signs of foaling being imminent - but no foal! She's really hanging on to it, and we are all completely exhausted, as we are sleeping in the tack room overnight, (doing this in shifts) so we can monitor her on the CCTV. The waiting game is soooooo frustrating, isn't it?!
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Hope yours come soon, and ours too!
 
Look on the bright side,my mare is 11 days late already! Aparently they are all late this year,head lass at twemlows stud said, upto 3 weeks.
Sorry,chaces are you'll have a few more late ones.
 
Thanks everyone and good luck to eventing_chick and rufusbluemoon. Look forward to good news from you both soon - hopefully very soon! _Claire_ - I see you are waiting too. I'd be interested to know about your mares and the expectant fathers?

Our mare is a smallish 138cms, 17yo purebred New Forest JA jumping pony (won c.£4,500) and this is her first foal. She's in foal to Tiny Tim X, a 128cms 35yo JA pony who was a prolific winner BSJA when I was a child! We hope to breed a 128cms jumping pony for our younger son who is 3yo at the moment and pony mad.
 
The trouble is that there is no set gestation period for mares carrying foals - all it is, is an average of averages. So although we all say "due date", this is really not correct, because there isn't a set date for horses.

My girl foaled 15 days after the average date.
 
My mare foaled technically 12 days late and I spent a bit of time researching horsey pregnancies. The AVERAGE is 320 - 370 days and the longest recorded pregnancy which resulted in a live foal was <font color="red">417<font color="red"> <font color="black">days (ye gods - I'd have had NO fingernails left by then!) </font>
 
well my mare was due on 24th April, she was very slow bagging up and her udder fluid is just starting to go cloudy, still think we have a couple more days

Good Luck

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OMG, how wierd mine are both 13.2 Registered NFs as well
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. They are in-foal to Goshka Ringo ( http://www.goshka.co.uk/Goshka%20Ringo.htm ). They will be coloured but the main objective is to get 2 148cm performance ponies (hoping SJing as well)! Both mares have HUGE jumps but have only been competed unaffiliated as I was only very young when i had them with unhorsey parents.

Your mare sounds fantastic and will definitely produce something very special! Keep us updated.
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Also thought these articles might interest you-
http://www.equine-reproduction.com/articles/overdue.shtml
http://www.equine-reproduction.com/articles/predicting.htm
 
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35yr old stallion, ye gods its a wonder he had the energy!!!!

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He must be about the oldest stallion still "on the job"? We had AI as he's miles away from us but she got in foal first time so he must be doing something right!
 
Thanks _Claire_ for the articles - very useful and I am much more reassured. If my poor mother can't get out to check on her every 30mins she is worried sick and so I'll show her too. We need to c-h-i-l-l!

What a coincidence that yours are NF too. Our mare is the only one I've had but if she's anything to go by they're fantastic. She's the easiest pony in every way but such a clever athlete under saddle. Another co-incidence - the stallion you've used is the spit of my elder son's 148cms pony, so if you want to see how your two foals will turn out as 148 competition ponies just let me know.
 
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