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After close to twelve months of some not-so
patient waiting, the longed and carefully prepared
for moment arrived. Last Saturday morning, at
about 4:30 a.m., my mare had her first foal, a filly.
It was really by chance that I happened to be
there to witness the miraculous event. I had gone
over to the barn to check on the mare around 11"
p.m. Friday night and from the looks of things, I
thought it would be sometime Saturday night that
she would have the foal. Needless to say, she
fooled me.
But then when I checked on life at {he sheep
barn, there was trouble. One of the older ewes was
definitely trying io lamb, and not succeeding. It
was one of those cases where I wasn’t sure what to
do either, and needed more than one person to
assess the situation. The best thing to do was wait
and offer help at the proper time.
So that meant going to bed late, and setting the
alarm for hourly intervals to rouse my body out to
the sheep barn. As the dark night progressed, it
got colder and more windy, and nothing was
happening with the sheep.
While out at 2 a.m., I checked the mare. She
seemed fine, there was nothing unusual to report.
I was beginning to feel like all this iSte hourly
running around was doing nothing but eating away
my sleep.
But when on impulse, I checked the horse again
at 4 a.m., the status had changed. The mare, who
had decided that this was the time, was doing fine
on her own and shortly after, a wobbly kneed foal
struggled to its feet for the first time. .
Looking almost exactly like its Quarter horse
mother, the new-born sorrel has a white stripe
marking its face, with the possibility of a few white
FISHER
socks, which only time will tell about for sure.
Within hours, it was bouncing around in its stall,
investigating everything, and whinneying its
delight at having so much attention from
everyone.
Meanwhile, its mother Cindy, proving that
motherhood is strictly based on mstinctand not on t
age, welcomed all the attention, as long as anyone
didn’t get to close to her darling baby. Only five
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