Foaling and Newborn Questions & Comments
Since foaling season has started and we are fortunate to now have live webcams on various broodmares from Foal Patrol and MareStare, this discussion was created for forum members to observe and discuss various issues of birthing as well as mare and foal interactions.
Here is a live webcam link to various Thoroughbred broodmares:
https://foalpatrol.com/
Here is a webcam link to other expectant mares of other breeds from MareStare:
http://www.marestare.com/cams.php
Here is a live webcam link to various Thoroughbred broodmares:
https://foalpatrol.com/
Here is a webcam link to other expectant mares of other breeds from MareStare:
http://www.marestare.com/cams.php
Comments
http://forums.zenyatta.com/discussion/comment/150691/#Comment_150691
Thanks @sarinne for this discussion idea! I'm sure this would be a great home for future comments/questions with Centre Court (due 2/19/18), La Verdad (3/15/18) and other expectant mares when they begin to foal along with watching mare & foal interaction that are now under live webcams.
This great source of sharing information started in Discussion
":StopChargingMaria (Tale Of The Cat x Exotic Bloom, by Montbrook)"
There are observations and comments and explanations in that Discussion.
And, that is why there was the need to have a place to continue the exchange.
Paniolo_Gal said in the SCM Discussion
"Once again, this is the live webcam currently on StopChargingMaria: https://foalpatrol.com/horses/stopchargingmaria
I hope Three Chimneys lets us enjoy watching this pair for a few more weeks."
Keta Note:
Last night I saw SCM lifting her hind leg and exhibiting some of the behaviors you had talked about.
Today Friday Feb. 9th, the live webcam is turned off
"Live stream offline"
Hope all is well.
UPDATE! It appears now that she looks to be in labor!
UPDATE #2 the cam is now offline.
AN EXCELLENT VIDEO OF SABBATICAL'S FOALING AT CLAIBORNE FARM...
Sabbatical and her cute 2018 War Front foal (colt) born at Claiborne Farm is also very interesting to watch. btw...Claiborne has an excellent video of Sabbatical delivering her 2018 foal on 1/15/18...Under Videos, entitled "Sabbatical 18" Delivery.
https://foalpatrol.com/horses/sabbatical
She's gorgeous! Classic MdO from her head to her blaze to her body. Will not be surprised if this little girl turns out to be something special in a few years.
Z-17 is a beauty in the eyes of the beholder because she's Zenyatta's filly, but she isn't as well put together as CC-18. She looks more like Grandmamma V than Daddy MdO. Much like how CoZ looked like Grandmamma V.
V is the prepotant genetic contributor through Zenyatta. Only the War Front Filly (we never saw enough of the colt to know) expressed a good balance of Zenyatta and War Front. Ziconic is pure Tapit, CoZ was Grandmamma V and Z-17 is Grandmamma V.
Peeking in and was so sad to hear of Marketing Mix's foal not being able to survive due to issues with her colon and intestinal malformation. I hope Marketing Mix is coping well.
As a forum member that has very little knowledge about the breeding protocol with thoroughbreds...would the breeding industry allow, for example Marketing Mix to become a surrogate mom to another TB foal that recently lost it's mother rather then bringing in a nurse mare that would have to give up her own foal?
I know it involves circumstantial timing, but more important, the mare's temperament, maternal behavior and how she is handling the loss of her own foal...but can this ever be a possibility among the professional TB breeding farms? Or is this an unspoken "tabu" being the TB mare and TB foal are too valuable to risk the chance.
If this has been done in the past with a relatively well known TB broodmare adopting an orphan TB foal...could you give an example?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated! ❤
I'm pretty sure I have heard of TB broodmares who lost their foal adopting the foal of another broodmare who died, so I don't think there are any taboos about this practice. Reasons it would be rare include the fact that oftentimes the mares on a farm have different owners, so the owners of both the orphan foal and the bereaved mare would have to agree, and then the timing and disposition would have to match up just right. It would probably also depend on whether the owners of the mare were planning to breed her back right away. Trying to establish a relationship with an orphan foal would be complicated by a trip to the breeding shed, more so than if the foal in question were her own.
Those are my best guesses, so hopefully we can hear from someone with real knowledge in this area.