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Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: little blue on June 26, 2011, 08:50:35 pm

Title: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on June 26, 2011, 08:50:35 pm
courtesy of Horse and Country TV and MyFarm:

http://www.horseandcountry.tv/news/2011/06/16/watch-queenie-foal-live-now (http://www.horseandcountry.tv/news/2011/06/16/watch-queenie-foal-live-now)

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Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 26, 2011, 10:55:13 pm
Is that cotton wool she's standing on?  She's not doing much yet! My pal who has 16 horses and 2 new foals said it could be all over in an hour so we'll probably miss it if we go to bed! ;) ;D
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on June 27, 2011, 08:18:16 pm
I gave up and went to bed!
must go and check it again now....  :D
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: HappyHippy on June 27, 2011, 08:21:24 pm
She's still hanging on in there  ;)
I've been watching off and on through the day. Had some lovely footage of some pigs due to farrow today, switched back to the horse just as things were looking interesting though  :-\
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on June 27, 2011, 08:41:32 pm
typical!   :D
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on June 27, 2011, 09:29:02 pm
Is this a ploy to get us all to buy beauty products  ;)
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 27, 2011, 09:54:31 pm
Quote from: Sandy on June 27, 2011, 09:29:02 pm
Is this a ploy to get us all to buy beauty products  ;)
I didn't see any beauty products. Where are they?  As far as I can see Queenie hasn't moved from the same spot she was in last night.
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on June 27, 2011, 10:04:33 pm
Veet hair removal adds, the ad makers must think people with horses are hairy  ;)  They may just be on the right lines!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 27, 2011, 10:18:58 pm
Ah, I didn't see them. Just had another look - still can't see them.  Ah well, don't need Veet anyway. ;D
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on June 28, 2011, 08:26:09 pm
well, Queenie seems more fidgety tonight, and I could see the foal moving as she stood belly-to-camera.

Its almost as bad as waiting for one of my own animals to birth!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: OhLaLa on June 28, 2011, 08:34:12 pm
A few seconds of the cam on the horse constantly interrupted by a longer period of adverts.  >:(
I hate that sort of thing. Shame as would have been interesting.
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on June 28, 2011, 10:00:22 pm
ANNE!!!!!! see there IS veet adverts!!! Just waking her up as she missed them!!  ;)

Come on Queenie, come on Queenie!!! poor girl, I remember that feeling...................just about!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 28, 2011, 10:48:38 pm
Quote from: Sandy on June 28, 2011, 10:00:22 pm
ANNE!!!!!! see there IS veet adverts!!! Just waking her up as she missed them!!  ;)

Come on Queenie, come on Queenie!!! poor girl, I remember that feeling...................just about!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
OK Ok, I'll have another look.  Must come up and see you sometime - don't know where the days go just now! Or you could nip down here for a cuppa!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 28, 2011, 10:52:38 pm
Watched it from then till now and no adverts!  ::) That was four minutes. Queenie is just standing watching a mouse in front of her. ;D
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on June 28, 2011, 11:05:12 pm
Been too much going on here as well......I thought being retired or working from home was easy......!!!!!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on June 29, 2011, 07:50:40 pm
OH! annoyed I missed the mouse!
I just see her body (no head in shot) or a close up of the ginormous belly....

Do you think a curry would help her?!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on June 29, 2011, 08:12:26 pm
She's moved nearer the camera so can't see much.  Will wait now till someone says foal has been born!  Fed up watching the paint dry!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on June 30, 2011, 09:41:37 pm
you all sure its not on a loop!!!!!!!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Sandy on July 04, 2011, 03:57:03 pm
 ::) ::) Thats piggies, where is the horse??? How strange ???
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: OhLaLa on July 04, 2011, 04:00:46 pm
Yeah, pigs the last time I looked too.

....And those d**n annoying adverts that you can't turn off.

 >:(
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on July 04, 2011, 04:45:53 pm
Is she not out in her field during the day so they have to show something?  She is probably taken in about 6 pm and turned out about 8 or 9 am
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: doganjo on July 04, 2011, 05:36:15 pm
Yup, was right - she's back in her loose box.
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: Daisys Mum on July 06, 2011, 11:02:27 am

Has the foal been born yet or are we still waiting on the paint to dry?
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: little blue on July 06, 2011, 11:56:29 am
....Its on pigs again!
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: OhLaLa on February 29, 2012, 06:48:57 pm
Thought I'd add a belated update to this thread. The foals birth was watched by many, but sadly died.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14142547 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14142547)
Title: Re: "live" foaling
Post by: sabrina on March 01, 2012, 01:22:44 pm
Maybe mare was stressed, they can hold back birth which in itself can cause foal to die.