What is the deal with baby horses? Must we have to figure out if it is a colt or a filly? Does it really matter, in the end it is going to eat hay and poop. I have seen many women fawn over another woman who is pregnant, but honestly, they have nothing on horse women who are expecting a little one. There is all the usual stuff, baby pools, baby shower (yes for a horse), the first to feel a kick, everyone gathering around and touching mom’s belly when there is a kick. All of the prenatal appointments, and the preparations; getting the room ready, clean towels, video cameras, sleeping in the motor home next to the barn… WHAT? So we are going to sleep in a motor home, 200 yards from the house, so that if and when the baby comes we are ready? Then I am told that I might have to pull. Whatever happened to pushing? This is why men don’t have babies, if we had to do that, the race would have died out a millennia ago. And to top it all off, it takes 11 months!
I do have to give credit to Lady, our currently pregnant mare. She has dealt with more squealing pushing, touching and squeezing women than any one horse should have to deal with. Any human female I have ever known who was pregnant would have killed them all by now.
More later, when the little critter actually shows up. Stay tuned.
I do have to give credit to Lady, our currently pregnant mare. She has dealt with more squealing pushing, touching and squeezing women than any one horse should have to deal with. Any human female I have ever known who was pregnant would have killed them all by now.
More later, when the little critter actually shows up. Stay tuned.