whose going to be first then!

[foolonahorse]

no fingernails left, fed up mucking out the straw waiting for foals to land on, fed up peering at udders , I think they are just full of wind and are having a laugh!! will someone out there who has a french rescue please have one! ;D

[dizzy]

Could I just remind you that Maybelline was "heavily" pregnant last AUGUST when we brought her home.....I have been peering under her belly and tail for 8 months now.....the longest blinking foalwatch in history!!

[foolonahorse]

lol ;D

[iwillbuy]

i am not looking until one has been born
sneaks in with one eye open

[shelley2]

arrrrrrrgh i thought you meant they had all started at the same time,i cant believe none of the mares have foaled yet.glad they waited though at least the weather is getting warmer and the ground is better

[foolonahorse]

hehe! probably will and will be flooded with pics!

[rosetila]

I have only realised that Tila is in foal, but not sure when but must be sometime soon, or maybe not going by your frenchies.... there maybe all holding off until we get some heat.. lol

[welshcob]

i got my foalie first lol hes nearly 6 months now

[specialsparkle3]

As I believe, all the french mares were covered naturally and I assume,lived out all the time, I don't think they will start foaling until around mid April or later.
In nature, mares don't foal until there is going to be an abundance of Spring grass for the foal to eat, so the optimum time would be lateApril/ May. I know mares can be seen to cycle in March, but that doesn't mean that they conceive that early. Nature knows what it's doing. Good luck to you all.

[shelley2]

omg MAY! dizzy you are going to have to get maybelline a set of wheels there is no way her legs will hold out that long!! LOL

[specialsparkle3]

Lol Hopefully, there's nothing like nature to prove one wrong ( in some cases ) ;D

Of course Spring grass may grow earlier in Spain/ France, depending on the area.

[foolonahorse]

ooh noo. going on hol end april!poor maybelline..

[lolamae]

Apr 2, 2008 10:58:13 GMT 1 specialsparkle3 said:

In nature, mares don't foal until there is going to be an abundance of Spring grass for the foal to eat, so the optimum time would be lateApril/ May. I know mares can be seen to cycle in March, but that doesn't mean that they conceive that early. Nature knows what it's doing. Good luck to you all.

Oh strewth.......one of my mares was covered in November (she had been tested in foal in August, obviously slipped that one then) and has just tested in foal again. Nature got seriously confused.October is a very bad time for a Canadian foal to arrive.

I am watching this thread with bated breath and am really looking forwards to seeing all these 'mystery' French foals, so exciting not knowing what you are all going to get.

[specialsparkle3]

Yes Lolamae, but we both know that a late foal conceived late in the breeding season is a different scenario than an early foal conceived before the start of the natural breeding season. ie when a mare is subjected to lamps etc so she conceives to foal in January or February. I used to always try for early March foals when I was showing, but the mares were kept up all Winter and fed so they were usually "foward" in themselves. The end of March or preferably beginning of April is now early enough for me, to have foals.

[sixfootblonde]

My QH mare had her 'unexpected' foal on 21st September - she was only 15 months old when she got pregnant!

Guinevere is still huge! Every morning I leap out of bed and throw back the curtains - and still no baby. I wake up around 5am and drift in and out of consciousness dreaming about what the foal looks like. Being 25 weeks pregnant myself - my pregnancy and Guinevere's is seriously disrupting my sleep!

Tia is pregnant too? She is quite young isn't she?