9:43 AM Tue, Mar 31, 2009 | Permalink
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Posted by: Barbara McLean
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Last Wednesday night, probably just after I left the barn at 9:30 pm my beautiful purebred Arabina mare Muskova gave birth to a beautiful filly by the stallion Dubious Gold. The filly, named Sol Shine before she was born, is healthy even though she was born 3 weeks earlier then expected. Muskova was in a large paddock with another broodmare, Vision, and Nyls, a wonderful old gelding, when she gave the unexpected birth instead of the specially prepared foaling stall! All was well though as the other horses were very respectful of Mom and baby.
Usually a group of kids will pitch tents and keep me company for several days as we take turns through the night waiting for the foal to be born. This was easy!
Baby was up, dry and nursing by the morning feeding and I didn't lose a moments sleep. Remembering a dear friends horrible experience with a foal falling into the water I asked Shari to change out the low lying water trough to a tall barrel. Between the few moments of asking and changing guess what happened! Of course, the foal fell into the water. Fortunately she scrambled out but she did scrape up her knees and got soaking wet.
As a three day old Solshine got out of the only tiny space left in the special foaling stall! I was lucky again, no harm done and we got her back in almost immediately. I suppose it would be easier if Mom didn't chew holes in the stall all the time!
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Thanks Marie, her 2 year old half sister is one of the origianl lhorses abanonded here at Siganture Farms last year and is available for adoption!
BEAUTIFUL filly!!