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The Veterinary came today Lady is perfectly alright It is…

The Veterinary came today, Lady is perfectly alright. It is just a case of waiting and being patient. Believe me I am not a very patient person, probably the most inpatient person you would know. I am setting the alarm for every hour and checking Lady on the camera with the monitor in our bedroom. Thank goodness for that, I remember well when I had to go to the stables every hour, Its not very nice. I have a couple of times turned the alarm off in my sleep, that is a worry for I know that Lady should be able to foal on her own, but it is just not worth taking the chance. Whats the add on the TV, one Supermarkets have a special no bag checkout week, this week. We will be alright with the bags under our eyes. I reckon some of you Ladies wont have a problem either.

The Veterinary had a look at Woody. Seeing her every day we tend not to see a lot of difference in her condition, we knew that she had lost a bit of weight. The Veterinary since he last came noticed a lot of weight loss. When Veterinary came Woody looked okay, when I looked in whilst checking Lady out before I went to bed, she was up and looking fine again, all day long she has been up and about. Whilst in Foal there is little more we can do for her, other than giving her a pain killer. I am starting to think that there is some going on inside Woody, that is a bit more sinister than what I have been thinking.

Went to check the Sheep earlier today, what do you reckon, the four I put up the end last night have had it away. I had electric fenced the boundary of the field off so that they would not stray into other peoples land. Unfortunately the nettles and grass had grown so that they were touching part of the wire, this reduces the power of the fencer. Electric fencers are run off of car battery, they give enough sting so that animals do not want another one, it keeps them in the boundaries of the fence, sounds not particularly nice, but it does not in any way hurt them. As we try to encourage wild life our fencing is not really suitable for normal farm animals. Anyway the ten that had got stung before the grass was touching the wire are still there. The new ones, probably did not get any sting at all. I have had to strim all around the field under the wire. Where the Sheep our now, who knows, I saw a of them in the wood but they did not hang about when they saw me.

I will watch the Hedgehog web cam being set up by a forum writer. I have never seen a hedgehog in Somerset. When I live in London I often saw them in our garden.

Tell you what Elsie, I have lived here for a good few years and never noticed that tree, it is beautiful when in flower. If I remember I will get a close up of it tomorrow at about 7.30pm, for five minutes. Someone may know what it is.

Both of Rye Harbour web cams are now working.

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I have been asked on the forum what signs should…

I have been asked on the forum, what signs should you look for as Lady is going to foal.
Unfortunately there are not any set out signs. If she is constantly looking behind herself, can sometimes be a sign, that tends to be more with first time foaling mares, although it can be a sign with all mares, however many foals they have had. Being very restless, constantly getting up and down, are other sign. It could be that the first sign is the the actual birth, with the head and legs showing through the bag. I look at the nipples on the udder, very often they have a waxy substance on them. I thought I saw that a week ago, but I was mistaken. If I see any signs, and I get the time I will post it on the forum.

Woody, well I just don’t know. Most of the day she has been eating the hay that we put in the paddock, and has looked fine. About an hour before we bring the horses in for the night, she started to look uncomfortable, laid down flat out. When I go to get the horses in, Arnie and Breeze are normally first at the gate, then Woody and lady. As I go to get them in, I always shout to the, come on then, and they are there waiting. Today Woody was still flat out not stirring, as if she was really poorly. As soon as I opened the gate, up she got and trotted out of the gate to her stable, ate her feed and started on her hay, as if she had not been unwell at all. Get a Veterinary out as she is would be a waste of time for him, and a waste of money for his visit.

What does worry us is that she is a month away from foaling, although she has scanned in foal, she does not look very big. This could be the problem, the foal may be lying in the wrong position, and may be causing her pain. She may even have lost the foal, but I cant think how we would have missed it. The stables are mucked out every day, so we would have seen signs there. If she had lost the foal in the fields we would have seen blood or discharge on her. I will have to talk it through with the Veterinary tomorrow.

Just before I posted this entry, Woody had her head over Lady’s stable, being horrible to her. She cant be feeling to ill tonight.

The Ewe who’s lamb died yesterday has settled down, she must now realise that it is not in the flock, she is not now running from lamb to lamb thinking that one may be hers, and that it is not about at all. Portlands unlike most sheep are able to get into lamb twice a year, hopefully for her, she will lamb again later in the year.

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The Veterinary came today to check out the broodmares I…

The Veterinary came today to check out the broodmares. I had changed the camera over so that it could be seen, unfortunately the sun was shining into the stable and the picture whited out.

Very often mares get badly torn vulva’s and around that area, on their first foaling. Many studs have their mares vulva’s cut to stop any serious tearing, and stitched after the foaling, the restitching of the vulva makes it necessary to have the vulva’s re cut just before any future foaling. I always try not to have them restitched, after foaling we check the vulva area, if it is not torn and clean we let it heal naturally, it saves the mares any stress when they have their new foal at foot.

At last years foaling neither Lady or Woody needed restitching, but I have them checked out before this years foaling to make sure that the vulva did not need re cutting. Lady was fine and she was not re cut. Woody had closed up and had to have a small incision, after having a local anesthetic. Woody has no problem with the Veterinary, and takes any treatment by them without flinching. Lady is completely different, on any new Veterinarians first visit, even without any indication it is a Veterinary, she knows. I normally let Lady and Woody walk themselves into the stable, Lady will never let Woody leave her, and follows her without fail, not today, she saw the Veterinary and legged it in the opposite direction to Woody and the Veterinary, she didn’t need a lot of chasing, but for sure she knew. Now we just have the foaling to look forward to, and having to wake ourselves all through the night, until Lady and Woody foal.

We managed to put a new Squirrel feeder in place today, near where the Badgers feed on camera two, I saw a squirrel there yesterday. with a bit of luck it will find it soon. I may need to put a bird feeder close to it, for they seem to find the bird feeders first, although I should imagine that the Squirrels have been feeding on any left over Badger food from the night before.