[RC] all packed up and no where to go! - Marlene Moss
Well, after missing all of last ride season due to being new
owners of a boarding facility, we were determined to get back in the swing of
things. Our first planned ride was Kenlyn in Denver, but due to
several things going on I just didn’t have a horse ready and a boarder
convinced us to do a local benefit ride instead. So then our sites were
set on Colfax Coalrush in Raton, one of our favorites.
Our trailer is currently sitting hooked up to the truck,
plugged in to get ice freezing, all loaded with food for us and the horses.
I knew it was going to be a little difficult getting away – we would be
leaving a lot of work for my mom (50 horses!) and being Memorial Day weekend,
all the manure help was disappearing and we had one horse on stall rest after
getting stitches for an injury, another horse not dealing well with recent
weather ups and downs and hubby has a sore back. And then there’s
Whiskey – our very pregnant mare.
We bought her at the auction last fall (a paint breeders
estate sale) and her listing indicated exposure to a stallion in August and
September. She’s been getting pretty big, so we had our doubts on
the dates. Then Tuesday the paperwork for registering the baby arrived,
indicating she’d been exposed from February to September. Made more
sense, but no help.
So Friday we saw her bag up. No problem, should be a
couple weeks before anything happens, right? This morning (we were
planning on the Sunday ride) her bag is bigger and all of a sudden she looks
like she is in labor. Definitely uncomfortable, contractions, laying down
(she never lays down) and her vulva was distended. So our ride is off,
much to my mom’s relief!
And of course that lasted for a couple hours and now
nothing. So I’m back to betting it’s going to be a couple
weeks, although we’ll be on foal watch tonight just in case. Either
this was just a fluke thing (was worried, but baby is still kicking around) or
the beginning of her positioning the baby.
Now we’ve got conflicts until Shamrock, which is
another of our favorite rides, so we’re crossing our fingers – this
mare had better not hang on to that baby for an entire month!
